when everybody is attacking and getting marked and backed up with no where to go apart from back to their goal, somone can drop back and recieve a ball switch it by a ping (lob pass) or a fizz (pacey on the floor pass) to the winger so he can score. but when the attacking team has done this the deffending team will have a player spritting across to stop the the attack from happening.
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