Become the ultimate goalscorer: Cut through the defence

Swansea City have become known for their slick, on-the-deck play over recent years, and the club’s Swans Academy, where trainees learn their trade, is a brilliant production line for players who can pass and move.

This drill can help do the same for your club – encouraging positive forward passes and neat teamwork to create more, and better chances. You’ll need four forwards and a keeper and four mannequins, and the quick combos of through balls, crosses and finishes will speed up the footwork and awareness of even the most sluggish final third operative.

Eric Ramsey is the under-18s coach at Swansea City. Follow @EricRamsay3 @swansofficial @swans_academy



For more shooting drills see:
Become the ultimate goalscorer: Shoot, assist, defend
Become the ultimate goalscorer: Finish from a lay-off
Become the ultimate goalscorer: Play the killer pass and finish
Become the ultimate goalscorer: Link the play and finish
Become the ultimate goalscorer: Four types of finish

Nick Moore

Nick Moore is a freelance journalist based on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He wrote his first FourFourTwo feature in 2001 about Gerard Houllier's cup-treble-winning Liverpool side, and has continued to ink his witty words for the mag ever since. Nick has produced FFT's 'Ask A Silly Question' interview for 16 years, once getting Peter Crouch to confess that he dreams about being a dwarf.