Coach developer Steve Lilley: how to improve young players’ finishing skills through effective practice design
Practice | Activities | 30.09.2022
Finishing practices should be realistic, relevant and offer young players lots of opportunity for repetition, says coach developer, Steve Lilley Image: Getty Images / Getty Images Sport
Learning:
- Designing finishing practices that are realistic, relevant and provide repetition
- Helping young players understand the technical detail of effective finishing
- Understanding finishing using the ‘before, during and after’ action model
A well-respected old coach of mine used to say, “matches are won and lost in both penalty areas”. With that in mind, do we coach finishing enough? Or, at least allow players the opportunity to practise finishing within our sessions? Historically, every session would end with a finishing practice, but this tradition seems to have disappeared. And, if we do allow time for finishing, is it transferrable to the game?
