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Preventing the long ball scorer from scoring

Anyone have a drill for HS boys to help stop other teams players with strong legs from shooting long and scoring

Joe Coach, United States of America

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Football CoachCoach

Is there anyone with drills for my team so we can win more

Ben HeadCoach, England

Hi Abby there isn`t run drill that covers everything why are you losing games defence,Midfield disappearing or strikers not scoring then we can probably help come up with a way to improve things.

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Richard BernierCoach, United States of America

Joe,

I will be putting together a series of high pressure defending drills in the public forum. It will be 4 separate drills starting from a 3 v 2 building to a 12 v 6. It will allow you to teach the defenders to step up and prevent more shots.

Football CoachCoach

you will need to look at some pressing drills, working hard to close the ball and stops shots at goal, this will require good fitness levels and the desire to want to work hard, then you can incorporate the pressing style

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