Playing with back to goal (dropping off the defender)
If striker S is being tightly marked and is having little success against his marker/defender, then he has the alternative of moving towards the ball, and either enticing the defender to follow OR he can pick up the ball in space.
Practice (1)
In this practice, (B) serves, S advances, collects and turns to face the defence.
Diagram (1)
N.B. If defender D does follow and marks tight, then S can lay the ball off into (B’s) path who then attacks the goal as in diagram (1).
Practice (2)
D, E and F, are all defenders
X, S and (B) are all attackers
Once again if D moves close to S then (B), can receive a lay-off pass, only this time he has another alternative. On reaching position (B2) he can play a first time pass between E and F for X to try and run on to.
If D stays in line with E and F, then S will come to the pass from (B), collect, turn and with (B) joining the attack set up a 3 against 3 situation.
Practice (3)
Should D follow S, then B can also move from the right side of the attack to receive a lay-off pass from S on the left side, at position B2 thus creating a 2 against 1 situation, with B taking S’s pass to join up with (X) against E.
(X) can then go wide to X2 OR drive to a more central position to put more pressure on the goal
