 I want to use my speed to my advantage just go a bit of skill the biggest thing is that you're actually hitting the target don't worry about it going in the top corner breaking the net just hit the net every single time and then you can focus on hitting those corners a little deeper how many times in a game have you had a really good opportunity to shoot but for some reason you took another touch or maybe you took another touch when you should have just hit it and you knew you should have just hit it or you had a really good opportunity to shoot and for some reason you passed it to a teammate anytime that ball is coming to me especially in the attacking third I'm already thinking how can I get my shot off as quickly as possible before that ball is coming to me I'm already thinking here's the space for my shot and I'm trying to get that off quickly let's play one touch to receive one touch to turn turn towards goal now I'm gonna try to shoot it's way too long this guy's gonna tackle you easily I'm already thinking boom how can I find some space for myself before that ball comes to me clean the pass to you into space getting your shot off good touch quick feet is one-timers so as a striker you need to become comfortable hitting the ball early if I always need one touch to touch to set myself before I can get a shot off I'm gonna miss my opportunities so let's demo a few different scenarios ways you could take one-timers want to hit and keep your eye on that until your foot actually makes contact with the ball so number one is get yourself in the box more often and you may be saying oh well obviously but if you really analyze your game and you're saying hey I'm not scoring many goals well how many times were you actually in the box and how many times did you actually have touches in the box okay a lot of strikers will get in the habit they'll start making runs out here or they're not getting the ball in good areas so they start dropping back into the midfield and they're getting on the ball they might even be making nice plays and nice passes but they're not doing their job and their job is to put the ball in the back of the net some people say like oh yeah Ronaldo he only scores penalty shots and tap-ins he only scored like 30 tap-ins last year well how many tap-ins did you score last year okay so don't criticize analyze why is he scoring all these goals he's getting in the right spot at the right time and the best strikers in the world that's what they do they find space and they get themselves in the box okay so analyze are you making runs out here rather than in here trying to receive the ball in these types of areas okay the second tip I want you to think about is playing on the last defender instead of trying to receive the ball in here I want to start my movement here so when the pass is played I already have a head start on the defender because what happens you receive it and these guys close you down and then you have to go backwards okay you want to get yourself on more breakways more one-on-one chances with the goalkeeper so you need to start playing on the last defender so as I said instead of starting your run here you know that your teammates on the ball where you want to get yourself into this position now at this point you're probably not springing you're just jogging maybe you're making eye contact but you see that he's on the ball now here's an opportunity okay now I'm starting my run well as is obviously you don't want to go offside so get in the habit of always looking across the line if you're playing this way you're gonna have to shoulder check or you're running this way you're gonna have to shoulder check hold your line hold your line hold your line and then making eye contact encouraging him to play the pass and you're getting that pass here you're getting played into space you're receiving it in good areas so you can quickly get shots off you get more goal scoring opportunities you don't have to beat three guys in order to create a chance for yourself the final tip I want to give you is finding space in the box so against good teams they're not gonna give you space to score the goal okay you're gonna be tightly marked so you have to think about hey how can I find space sometimes the space is making a quick run to the front post sometimes the space is drifting off to the back post let's say everyone gets sucked in you have to find okay is there space here no the space is in there the space is over here sometimes the space is let's say this guy makes a run in the box someone's on the back post okay everyone's mark sometimes the space is just staying still you're already in the space no one's marking you you just have to receive the path if the ball is coming in and we're both jogging to it he's probably gonna win it okay I have to have a little more desire I have to be willing to sprint a little quicker to be a little more physical to get in front of that guy to work a little harder to earn myself the goal so instead of jogging or instead of jogging out here and hoping the ball comes to you okay you want to be in the habit of getting around the defender getting in front of the defender being a little sharper with your movement finding the space so you can score the goal