Set Pieces
Two-Touch Corner Routine Rehearsal
Rehearse attacking corner routines
Set Pieces
Attacking
Finishing
Two-Touch 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
Two Touch
Duration
16 min
Players
6-18
Pitch size
35 x 30 yards
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Two-Touch Corner Routine Rehearsal — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · 35 x 30 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. Ball enters from the coach and the first receiver is on two touches from that moment.
- 5. Count completed sequences under the touch limit — best of three 3-minute rounds.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- GK = goalkeeper
- S = 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 35 x 30 yards area.
- 2Place a marker at every receiving position so players know where to set the ball before it arrives.
- 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.
- 4Ball enters from the coach and the first receiver is on two touches from that moment.
- 5Count completed sequences under the touch limit — best of three 3-minute rounds.
Coaching points
- -Attack the ball on the move
- -Hold the edge of the box for the second ball
- -Clear jobs, clear signals
- -First touch out of the feet and into the direction of the next pass
Common mistakes
- -Players standing still until the ball is kicked
- -Nobody covering the counter
- -Taking a settling touch that kills the tempo
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