Making use of forward passing and lay-offs to get into crossing areas.
Beware of offside.
Timing runs & communicating preferred runs.
Curve the run & hold to avoid offside situations if winger chooses to play a forward cross.
Making use of different body parts to make contact.
Must evade defenders.
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