Take ball on back foot so away from defender, accelerate out Recognize opportunities to run with the ball Try to get out on first touch Good receiving position i.e. correct angle and distance from defender Progressions- target number of passes before changing grids, change overloads, floating defender between two grids
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This practice has no progressions
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