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Creating & Finishing

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Slaven Bilic

The road to Wembley

This session is very general, but not in a negative way. It’s very useful because it helps in all game situations. It’s technical and tac...

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Robbie Keane

Third phase overload and finishing pattern

The finishing pattern part of the session is suited for strikers and wingers because it keeps them on their toes in terms of what they ar...

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Ryan Lowe

Possession in wide areas

The session is about possession, with a particular focus on getting the ball out wide.

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Ian Dawes

Playing through the mid third from the full-back

This session is delivered to give my team ideas, principles and an understanding of how to play through the mid third and enter the final...

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Frank Lampard

Sustaining Attacks

This session is about creating attacks whilst ensuring we have a good attacking structure as a team to counter press if we lose the ball.

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James Brayne

Utilising the full back in build-up play

This session is designed around using our full backs in build-up play. It is split into two activities, with the first technical practice...

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Mark Robins

Create chances and score goals with attacking transitions

This session creates opportunities for attacking transitions. Every aspect of play will be challenged, including the reaction of the play...

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Adam Thorley

Attacking movement and combination play in the final third

This session is designed to improve the ability to create and exploit space in the final third.

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Rob Edwards

Combination play in the final third

This training session is all about encouraging combination play in the final third and it provides the attacking players in our team with ...

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David Artell

Creating scoring opportunities from wide areas

This session is all about building relationships in wide areas. The players are given guidelines but they also have lots of freedom to ...

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Alex Bruce

Attacking and defending in wide and central areas

In this session two teams work on attacking and defending in wide and central areas of the pitch

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Chris Coleman

Shooting practice

This is a straightforward three-station shooting drill, constructed in blocks of four sequences that have multiple actions per player in ...

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Aaron Callaghan

Efficient finishing

These exercises will help the midfield players to recognise space and encourage them to exploit it when in possession, as well as looking ...

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Nigel Pearson

Creating Scoring Opportunities

This session is about attacking with purpose and quality. It focuses on developing good combination play between attacking players and ...

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Mick McCarthy

Forward play

This session is all about understanding forward patterns of play. It’s a session that encourages team play in order to create plenty of ...

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James Marrs

Wide play

This session is all about exploiting the opposition in wide areas in order to gain the opportunity to either cross or shoot at goal. Our ...

Featured Coaches

Arsène Wenger

Arsène Wenger is one of the most successful managers in the game and has twice been a winner of the LMA manager of the Year award. In a 22-...

José Mourinho

Here is a man who ascended from a coaching role in schools football to the status of arguably the world’s most recognisable football ...

Jürgen Klopp

Klopp arrived at Liverpool with a track record of managerial success and a reputation as one of the most forward-thinking coaches in the ...

Mikel Arteta

After beginning his playing career with Barcelona, Arteta went onto represent PSG before arriving in British football in 2002 when he ...

Pep Guardiola

In his debut season as manager, he guided Barcelona to the treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League, becoming the ...

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Dmitri Lavrinovic

Better finishing

This session is designed to support and develop a range of finishing skills in and around penalty area. It is a very realistic session with ...

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Adam Barradell

Sustaining and finishing attacks

This session is made up of a series of practices that work on the abilities of individuals and the team to sustain attacks and ultimately ...

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Alan Keeling

Getting into the 'Big W' to score

This training session is all about coaching players to understand how and why they need to get into the correct area – the ‘Big W’, as I ...

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Ross Embleton

Creating and finishing centrally

This session is focused on creating opportunities to score and finishing under pressure centrally in and around the penalty area. It helps ...

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Steven Gerrard

Creativity in the final third

This session is designed to help a team’s creativity in the final third. It looks to provide opportunities for the players to create goal-...

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Nigel Clough

Finish the attack

This session is all about link-up play in the final third of the pitch and it focuses on attacking crosses and finishing, whilst ...

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Frankie McAvoy

Wide attacking in a 3-5-2 formation

This session is based on attacking at pace with wing backs in the wide areas of the pitch. It’s all about getting the wing backs into good ...

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Paul Barry

Rapid fire

This activity is about executing a variety of different shooting and finishing techniques. Players will have opportunities to try and score ...

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