Get the ball wide and let your wingers and full-backs whip the ball in for your forwards in the box. The advancing full-back is a growing trend in football and are soon becoming the best crossers of the ball, so work on your whole teams crossing ability to start to really deliver threatening balls into danger areas.
What’s in the Session?
To coach and develop players to be able to create goal scoring opportunities from wide areas by crossing the ball into dangerous positions and finishing appropriately.
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