two-touch

two-touch

(to͞o′tŭch′)
adj. Sports
1. Being a pass or shot, as in soccer or hockey, in which the ball or puck is released immediately after being trapped or stopped.
2. Being a style of play in which two-touch passes predominate.
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After the usual warm-up Blues boss Gary Rowett put on two-touch possession drills and worked on counter-attacking.
Sterling believes the two-touch style of football he has been encouraged to play under Manuel Pellegrini - likely to become even more pronounced under new City boss Pep Guardiola - does not suit his natural game, especially his ability to run at defenders.
"When we play one and two-touch football, it can be really exciting and our movement was good, our penetration in the final third was really good and that is what ultimately ended up in us getting the three goals."
IThey were picking us off and were very fast with one and two-touch play.
One of the practice routines that Colombia used was two-touch passing, where the players were split into two teams that competed on a small pitch, and each player was restricted to having just two touches of the ball.
The striker was undeterred after seeing goals disallowed for offside then Joe Hart's two-touch kick before finally firing past the England keeper at the third attempt.
When he had moments to relax in the sun Bellers was still competing - and challenged physio Sean Connelly to a game of two-touch keepy-uppy.
"They play some fantastic one-touch and two-touch football, but it is not consistent enough.''
Olsson said: "Keano is a different kind of manager, he likes to play the ball on the ground with lots of one-touch, two-touch football.
"They keep the ball up and play a two-touch game so if you take more than two touches or drop the ball then you sit out.