Emphasis on easy movemants:
Try to develop timing with left and right defence players.
Have lots of balls and every time the ball is passed into the midfield while the forards finish the move of the the back two take the next ball and start passing the ball between them until the rotating forwards are ready to recieve the next ball.
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