Shooting
Tempo Turn and Shoot
Combine a turn with an immediate strike
Shooting
Receiving
Finishing
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Tempo Turn and Shoot is a 15-minute shooting drill for 3-16 players, suitable for Under 5 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
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Foundation Phase
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Tempo
Duration
15 min
Players
3-16
Pitch size
30 x 24 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Tempo Turn and Shoot — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · 30 x 24 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 clock starts the moment the first pass is played in.
- 5. The sequence must reach the end action inside eight seconds or the rep is void.
- 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 30 x 24 yards area.
- 2Set a visible timer or have an assistant count aloud from the side of the area.
- 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 clock starts the moment the first pass is played in.
- 5The sequence must reach the end action inside eight seconds or the rep is void.
Coaching points
- -Check away before receiving
- -Turn on the half yard, not the full circle
- -Shoot before the defender recovers
- -Pass with pace and intent — under-hit passes cost the clock
Common mistakes
- -Too many touches before the shot
- -Turning into the crowded side
- -Slow, sideways passing that burns the clock
Where this drill fits
- More football shooting drills
- More football receiving drills
- More football finishing drills
- football drills for U8s
- football drills for U10s
- football drills for U12s
- football drills for U14s
- football drills for U16s
- football drills for beginners
- Football session plans built around this theme