Finishing
Finishing From Cut-Backs
Finish first time from low cut-backs
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Finishing From Cut-Backs is a 20-minute finishing drill for 8-18 players, suitable for Under 8 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, full goals. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.
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Foundation Phase
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Duration
20 min
Players
8-18
Pitch size
Half pitch into one goal
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Finishing From Cut-Backs — Goalkeeping set-up — serve, save, reset · Half pitch into one goal
Step 1 of 4Wide player drives forward and plays into the central player.
- 1. Wide player drives forward and plays into the central player.
- 2. Set-back, then a low cut-back into the box.
- 3. Central runner arrives late to finish; rotate roles.
- 4. Rotation: Rotate roles.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- GK = goalkeeper
- C = coach serving, S = second server
- Ball
- Cones mark the keeper's starting positions
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Keeper distributes back to the server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Finish first time from low cut-backs
- -Time runs into the box
- -Improve composure in the final third
Setup
- 1Wide starting cone, central lay-off cone, goal with keeper.
- 2Two queues: wide and central, 25 yards out.
- 3Balls at the wide cone.
Coaching instructions
- 1Wide player drives forward and plays into the central player.
- 2Set-back, then a low cut-back into the box.
- 3Central runner arrives late to finish; rotate roles.
Coaching points
- -Arrive as the ball does, not before
- -Attack the near post with the front foot
- -Side-foot across the keeper
- -Body over the ball to keep the finish down
Common mistakes
- -Arriving early and standing still
- -Leaning back and skying the finish
- -Cut-back played too close to the keeper