On the coaches whistle both players sprint around the cone to the ball in the middle then you have a 1v1 until someone scores or the ball has gone out
If one player is not as quick as the other encourage them to take up a defensive position so the attacking player doesn't just knock it past them and run to the open goal
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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