💫 Rio Ngumoha? Cobham's finest 🔵🦁

Yup. Good players are consistently good, that's why they're good

↔️ 1- FINDING SEPARATION A and B exchange a pass, C gets on the move during the pass from A to B Having created a yard, and "nodding" by putting his centre of balance (or shoulders) on the vertical of the ball on his first touch

🎺🎶2 - WORKING THE FULLBACK(S) Going "off beat" to make sure his footwork is disrupting the defenders' : get a touch when they land flat footed.

📐3 - DUMP AND GO This is top agility - drop of shoulder, skip to - land the left support foot to push right shoulder - keep shoulders / centre of gravity vertical to the ball - ballers like to curve the pass, to avoid a trailing leg but reach a more central spot

🧭4 - SPIN Shoulders leaning forward left foot pointing where he wants to pass Lands his right not too far away as support foot, opens the gate and points his left towards where he wants to run Curved pass to avoid a leg, I like wingers who do it Ready to sprint left shoulder

☯️5 - YIN / YANG Anyone who works with top players / wingers know the stakes are twofold: - range of movement to be dynamic, balanced etc... - ideologically : most wingers who want into feet, rarely dump to make a run (or make runs at all). Same the other way round.

⬜️6 - SPLIT THE TRIANGLE / SQUARE Use images players grasp. The game Fruit Ninja etc... 🥷🔪🍉 Space isn't "two players", but three or four. Time your movement to "split" the square A to B, appear when B is able to pass Another good reception "nodding" to have shoulders over

🏁SPEED OF EXECUTION does (proven) depend on defensive pressure, but still a criteria to look at - First touch - Second touch in stride (still centre of gravity vertical to the football) - Support foot pointing where he wants to shoot with room to swing the kicking leg around

Follow through with the kicking leg's toes pointing towards goal, arms for balance

Few coaches at top level have a proven track record of *improving* forwards's finishing skill Pochettino is one of them : Kane and Mbappé all developped that lethal low near post disguised drilled finish Industry knows, and benchmark on these clips. That Rio shot was going there

🧐TL;DR We're talking very best player development in Category 1 Academies in one of the most populated talent hotbeds in the world -Timing to find separation -Work fullbacks off beat -Optimise footwork to change direction -Willingness to receive AND dump/run -Disguise finish

I'm good at what I do, because i succesfully translated these breakdowns into implementable feedback in a professional capacity, with players going from grassroots to pro 👀 A good coach *is* an analyst Train your eye, your brain will come up with the things that go well/awry

Sorting his feet before shooting? 👣 *This* is finishing skill. You can't look at that on a spreadsheet.

Such a hard worker too and great mentality especially for his age was such a major loss yet people at the time were praising Mudryk's ability to run fast

I remember being called so many names for saying Mudryk can't do these basics

It will be the same too when Ryan Kavuma-McQueen is looking for minutes but the timeline will be like WHERE CAN WE FIT HIM WE HAVE PEDRO NETO

How do you compare him against Quenda?

Rio is miles better