Strike a driven shot cleanly and repeatably. Set the ball with the first touch, plant the standing foot, make contact through the laces, and keep it low and on target.
A server rolls balls to a striker on the edge of the box, keeper in goal. Take one touch to set the ball slightly ahead and to the side, then drive it low into the corner off the laces. Plant the standing foot beside the ball and follow through toward the target. Work both feet and both corners, and rotate server, striker, and keeper.
Keep it low is the most frequently given and least useful instruction in shooting, because it describes an outcome rather than a cause. A player who has just ballooned one over the bar knows it went high. What he does not know is that his standing foot landed six inches behind the ball, which tilted his body backwards and lifted the contact point below the centre of the ball. Fix the foot and the height fixes itself.
That is the whole value of isolating this strike. With no defender, no keeper pressure and a ball the player sets himself, there are only three variables left, and each can be seen and corrected: where the first touch puts the ball, where the plant foot lands, and where the foot meets the ball.
The first touch is the one coaches skip. Setting the ball out of the feet and slightly ahead creates room for a full swing. Left underneath the body, the striker has to make space with a shortened, jabbed contact, and everything downstream is compromised before the shot has started.
Contact through the middle of the ball with the laces produces the driven flight. Below the middle it climbs; the toe produces something unpredictable that cannot be repeated.
Worth being honest about the limits: technique work like this transfers only if it is followed by pressure. A player who strikes beautifully from a set ball and has never done it with someone closing has half a skill, and this drill should sit before an opposed one rather than replacing it.
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