Set Pieces
Finishing Free Kick Zone Practice
Practise deliveries and strikes from set positions
Set Pieces
Shooting
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Finishing Free Kick Zone Practice is a 16-minute set pieces drill for 3-16 players, suitable for Under 10 to Adults at intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, full goals, poles. 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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Finishing
Duration
16 min
Players
3-16
Pitch size
36 x 32 yards
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Finishing Free Kick Zone Practice — Goalkeeping set-up — serve, save, reset · 36 x 32 yards
Step 1 of 5Take three kicks from each zone in turn.
- 1. Take three kicks from each zone in turn.
- 2. Central zones are struck at goal, wide zones are delivered.
- 3. Runners attack every delivery.
- 4. Every sequence starts with a pass out and ends with a strike on goal.
- 5. Goals score one, first-time finishes score two, and rebounds must be followed in.
- 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
- -Practise deliveries and strikes from set positions
- -Decide between shooting and delivering
- -Rehearse the routine with a wall in place
Setup
- 1Three marked free kick zones around the edge of the area with a pole wall in a 36 x 32 yards area.
- 2Set a goal at the end of the area with a keeper or a target zone if no keeper is available.
- 3Balls at each zone, poles for the wall, keeper in goal.
Coaching instructions
- 1Take three kicks from each zone in turn.
- 2Central zones are struck at goal, wide zones are delivered.
- 3Runners attack every delivery.
- 4Every sequence starts with a pass out and ends with a strike on goal.
- 5Goals score one, first-time finishes score two, and rebounds must be followed in.
Coaching points
- -Same approach and strike every time
- -Delivery beyond the first defender
- -Attack the delivery at pace
- -Head up before the strike — pick the side, then commit
Common mistakes
- -Blasting every free kick
- -No runners on the delivery
- -Rushing the shot and leaning back over the ball
Where this drill fits
- More football set pieces drills
- More football shooting drills
- More football attacking drills
- football drills for U10s
- football drills for U12s
- football drills for U14s
- football drills for U16s
- Football session plans built around this theme