I’ve been fortunate enough to watch two excellent Arsenal vs Bolton games in the last week. Already Bolton under Owen Coyle look like a team who want to be more careful with the ball and play football on the ground. But in honour of Arsenal returning to the top of the Premier League I’m posting [...]

Check out this short video which provides a look at the technical points for the slap cut technique and reverse slap cut technique. Both these moves are great for pulling the defender off balance and then skipping away from their challenge and into the space behind.
You can also read some more soccer coaching points for [...]

Check out this short video which provides a look at the technical points for the outside cut technique and inside cut technique plus a simple ball manipulation exercise.
You can also read some more soccer coaching points for cut moves in this earlier post.

Outside Cut
With the ball just in front and between your stance:

Bring your dribbling [...]

Paul Cooper is the co-founder of Give Us Back Our Game and an expert soccer coach. In this in-depth interview with Better Football he discusses the importance of playing Small Sided Games in football coaching sessions and talks about the motivations for junior soccer players.
One of the key aspects which Paul makes the case for [...]