Attacker tries to get past the defender standing between the gate cones to get a shot.
Progression: attacker can leave the ball at any point between the first cones line and start moving laterally and the defender should mirror him until the attacker touches the ball again trying to move past the defender to take a shot.
try to tell the attacking player to move explosively while changing directions.
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