Player on side line delivers ball into player on 18yd box, he then turns & plays a long ball into fullback who can turn & switch play or lay ball off to near by player & switch the point of attack to the opposite fullback, who then plays it into the midfielder who has come to get it, he then lays it off to the Central midfielder you plays it down the line for the fullback to carry & deliver a cross for the 2 strikers in the box. Then reverse the process. Strikers will make runs from the opposite cones in the box & fullbacks can rotate their overlapping runs.
Fast ball speed. Timing of runs, particularly the strikers - don't get in too early Quality crosses - head down Could throw in some manequins as opposition midfielders. Variation; overlapping fullback could bounce ball off the server to then deliver the cross.
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