Set Pieces
Pressure Corner Routine Rehearsal
Rehearse attacking corner routines
Set Pieces
Attacking
Finishing
Pressure Corner Routine Rehearsal is a 16-minute set pieces drill for 6-18 players, suitable for Under 10 to Adults at 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 librarySet Pieces
Attacking
Finishing
Skill Practice
Intermediate
Advanced
Full Squad
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Under Pressure
Duration
16 min
Players
6-18
Pitch size
33 x 28 yards
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Pressure Corner Routine Rehearsal — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · 33 x 28 yards
Step 1 of 5Walk the routine through once with no opposition.
- 1. Walk the routine through once with no opposition.
- 2. Run it at match pace with defenders added.
- 3. Every rep finishes with a live second ball.
- 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
- -Rehearse attacking corner routines
- -Give every player a clear job
- -Practise the second-ball reaction
Setup
- 1A penalty area set up with marked starting positions for each role in a 33 x 28 yards area.
- 2Position a recovering defender behind each working player, starting two yards back.
- 3Balls at the corner flag, keeper in goal.
Coaching instructions
- 1Walk the routine through once with no opposition.
- 2Run it at match pace with defenders added.
- 3Every rep finishes with a live second ball.
- 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
- -Attack the ball on the move
- -Hold the edge of the box for the second ball
- -Clear jobs, clear signals
- -Feel the pressure with your body, take the touch away from the defender
Common mistakes
- -Players standing still until the ball is kicked
- -Nobody covering the counter
- -Facing your own goal and getting trapped by the press
Where this drill fits
- More football set pieces drills
- More football attacking 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