Finishing drills with a high volume of shots and realistic situations: directional touch and shot from the edge of the box, finishing after a through ball, attacking overloads and headers from crosses. With a keeper and with progressions towards opposition.
20 drills
20 drills
Four stations around the box linked at match tempo: skill move at the mannequin and shot, one-two around the mannequin and shot, dribble to the byline with a pull-back, and pass-overlap-cross attacked by three players.
A line of mannequins acts as the defence: the central player combines with a winger and threads the pass for the opposite winger, who runs diagonally in behind the line and finishes.
Four-station circuit Pep Guardiola ran in his first pre-season at Bayern: wall pass after getting beyond the mannequin, long switch, first-time lay-off, through ball and finish. Every player rotates to the next station.
Y-shaped passing sequence: support, lay-off to the third man and a pass into space to finish against the keeper. A pre-season classic for passing, movement and timing.
Wave finishing drill: the attacker plays a wall pass with a target player at the edge of the box and finishes first time past the goalkeeper. Accuracy, timing and finishing.
Central free-kick training from 18-25 m with a mannequin wall at 9.15 m: direct strikes over or around the wall, and a rehearsed routine with a dummy run over the ball and a sideways lay-off for a third player to strike.
Three-station circuit on a half pitch in blocks of 4 minutes of work and 4 of recovery: hurdle hops and pole slalom, coordination ladder with pass and shot, and a maximum three-touch dribble before finishing.
Two teams in facing lines: the coach lofts a throw, the header attacks the ball and heads between the cones while a player from the other team acts as keeper. The team with most headed goals wins.
The server plays the ball into space ahead of the attacker, who must finish first time while a defender starts closing him down the moment the ball is touched; repeated from the opposite side.
Finisher 12-13 m from goal receiving hand-served balls from a server standing to the side: first hip-height volleys, then half-volleys after one bounce, from both sides and against the keeper.
40x25 m pitch with two goals and keepers: every attack starts with a pair dribbling on and joining their team-mate in the central zone, against two defenders entering from the opposite goal plus their own central player.
Right-sided build-up (8-2-7) ending in a cross from the wide channel, attacked by three finishers with staggered runs to the near post, the far post and the cut-back zone.
Parallel race: the striker dribbles through poles and shoots first time after the last one while the keeper, without a ball, runs his own slalom to reach the goal before the shot.
Finishing circuit from three linked sources: a feint past the mannequin and a central shot, a back-to-goal lay-off for the partner's shot and a wide cross attacked at the near and far posts.
Continuous 2v1 game in both directions: each team keeps one player on the pitch and a team-mate dribbles on to create the overload and finish quickly.
Pairs run up the pitch, play a wall pass and shoot; the keeper deliberately spills the rebound so the second player can pounce on it inside the box.
Two identical diamonds mirrored either side of the halfway line. Each diamond circulates the ball first time from a feeder's one-two and ends with a long diagonal to the central player, who finishes in the opposite diamond's mini goal. The two diagonals cross through the middle.
Waves of three attackers against two defenders from the halfway line towards a goal with a keeper. The player on the ball must decide between dribbling, passing to the support or to the runner depending on the defenders' reaction.
Alternating waves from two sides: the player receives with their back to goal, takes a directional first touch past a mannequin and finishes from the edge of the box. High volume of shots with both feet.
Alternating waves from the right and left: the winger dribbles into the crossing zone while two finishers attack the near and far post against the goalkeeper.
With repetitions in match-like situations: receiving on the move, a pressing defender, limited time and a real keeper. Alternate the finishing foot and reward low shots to the far post.