Free hits should be free goals!
Quite often though players get fooled by the name Free Hit and waste these goal scoring opportunities by blindly smashing the ball into the D.
To eliminate this common mistake this session works on creating space inside the D and drawing defenders out of position by moving to meet the pass or to create a diversion for the hit taker to make a self-pass.
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