3 Best Striker Movements to Get Free - Training Center Exclusive

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3 Best Striker Movements to Get Free - Training Center Exclusive

This is a very good but also a very simple exercise to practice the opposite move.

Strikers usually stand with their back to defenders waiting for the ball, so the defender is in charge, this way a very small movement means they end up facing forward and are then at an advantage.

I believe this is a good way of simplifying movements by the striker in this position and giving them a framework to play from, they may develop their own variations of these three moves but it is a good planning tool to use in training so the players making the delivery at least have an idea what the striker may attempt in terms of his or her movement based on the position of the defender.

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