1. Start at top right of pitch
2. Play ball into centre midfield
3. Centre midfield plays it back to defence. At this time the second winger starts to move into attack
4. Defence plays a through ball to running attacker
5. Attacker runs into box and trys to beat defender (orange) and either passes to extra attacker or shoots for themselves
6. Repeat from bottom right
1. Communication
2. Weight of passs
3. Timing of run
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