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The Winger: What This Session Is About

The session focuses on improving wing play and crossing ability. Wingers practice dribbling down the sideline and crossing into the penalty area under match-like conditions. The exercise then develops into a 1v1 duel where the winger must beat a fullback before crossing. Finally, the skills are applied in a small-sided game where goals from crosses by wingers count double.

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The Winger: What This Session Is About

The session focuses on improving wing play and crossing ability. Wingers practice dribbling down the sideline and crossing into the penalty area under match-like conditions. The exercise then develops into a 1v1 duel where the winger must beat a fullback before crossing. Finally, the skills are applied in a small-sided game where goals from crosses by wingers count double.

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The winger

by Tony Carr in Attacking, Practice plans


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Improving your team’s wing play and its ability to get crosses into the opponent’s penalty
area will provide goalscoring chances. The practices in this session place the wingers in
match-like situations to improve technique and decision making.
What this session is about
1.  Improving the team’s attack on the wings.
2.  Getting crosses into the box.
3.  Scoring from a cross.
What to think about
The basic tasks for a winger are to provide the team with an option out wide and then to
provide the team’s forwards with goalscoring opportunities.
This means the skills required to be a top winger include crossing, dribbling and running with
the ball. These skills are developed in the practices in this session.
The winger must concentrate on getting the ball into the danger zone (opponent’s box) as
much as possible.
Set-up
Warm
Warm up Session Developments Game Situation
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10 minutes 15 minutes 15 minutes 15 minutes 5


minutes
What you get your players to do
Use half of your regular-size pitch and set up your players and poles as shown in the top
picture.
Each winger must use different techniques (described below) in order to dribble down the
line and cross the ball between the poles and into the penalty box.
The forwards work in pairs to make runs into the box and score a goal. One runs to the near
post and the other towards the back post.
Winger’s techniques:
1. The winger dribbles down the wing to cross.
2. The winger dribbles down the wing, dummies to cross and checks back to cross with
his other foot.
3. The winger passes the ball down the line and runs to reach the ball and then cross in.
Wingers use different techniques to take the ball down the side of the pitch and cross in for
forwards to attack.

Development
Now develop this exercise into a 1v1 duel between a full back and the winger.
This forces the winger to work at match speed so he can get a cross into the box.
To start, the full back starts outside the winger and with the ball at his feet.
The full back passes the ball down the line for the winger to run after. The full back must
now run inside the winger and get goal-side (nearest to the goal line) to defend 1v1, as shown
in the middle picture.
Again the winger must cross the ball within the poles and into the box.
The winger can cross first time, dribble inside to take on the full back, or cut back to cross
with the opposite foot. The forwards, once again, make runs to try and meet the cross and
score.
The winger tries to beat the full back after the initial pass and cross the ball in between the
poles.

Game situation
Play a small-sided game using normal rules, including offside.
Each team plays with three defenders and two forwards, plus a winger in a marked out wide
zone.
Each team is rewarded double goals if the ball is switched to the winger and the goal is
scored from a cross.
Swap wingers every few minutes and swap which side they work on. The team that scores
most goals wins.
In a small-sided game, goals scored from crosses by wingers count double.

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Academy director has brought through – from the youth team to the first team – players like
Glen Johnson, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, Michael Carrick, Joe Cole and
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