Pass and follow with a wall pass.
Player 1 passes the ball for a wall pass to player after receiving the ball back. Player 1 passes the ball to player 4. Player 4 does a wall pass with player 3 and receives the ball back. Player 4 then continues and plays a 2v1 at the top of the circle against the defender (only allowed to defend outside the circle.
Introduce defender on top of circle for 1v1.
Forward should look to attack the defender at pace, and utilise the space behind them
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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