Shooting
Pressure Turn and Shoot
Combine a turn with an immediate strike
Shooting
Receiving
Finishing
Pressure Turn and Shoot is a 15-minute shooting drill for 3-16 players, suitable for Under 9 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.
Back to drill libraryShooting
Receiving
Finishing
Skill Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Full Squad
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Under Pressure
Duration
15 min
Players
3-16
Pitch size
26 x 20 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Pressure Turn and Shoot — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · 26 x 20 yards
Step 1 of 5Server plays into the striker who is facing away from goal.
- 1. Server plays into the striker who is facing away from goal.
- 2. Striker turns with one touch and shoots with the second.
- 3. Alternate the turning side each rep.
- 4. The defender is released the moment the ball leaves the server's foot.
- 5. The working player scores by completing the action before pressure arrives; the defender scores by blocking it.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- GK = goalkeeper
- C = coach / server
- Ball
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Shooter becomes the next server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Combine a turn with an immediate strike
- -Create the yard of space needed to shoot
- -Shoot early rather than taking extra touches
Setup
- 1A receiving cone 20 yards out facing away from goal in a 26 x 20 yards area.
- 2Position a recovering defender behind each working player, starting two yards back.
- 3Balls with the server, keeper in goal.
Coaching instructions
- 1Server plays into the striker who is facing away from goal.
- 2Striker turns with one touch and shoots with the second.
- 3Alternate the turning side each rep.
- 4The defender is released the moment the ball leaves the server's foot.
- 5The working player scores by completing the action before pressure arrives; the defender scores by blocking it.
Coaching points
- -Check away before receiving
- -Turn on the half yard, not the full circle
- -Shoot before the defender recovers
- -Feel the pressure with your body, take the touch away from the defender
Common mistakes
- -Too many touches before the shot
- -Turning into the crowded side
- -Facing your own goal and getting trapped by the press
Where this drill fits
- More football shooting drills
- More football receiving drills
- More football finishing drills
- football drills for U10s
- football drills for U12s
- football drills for U14s
- football drills for U16s
- Football session plans built around this theme