Set Pieces
Pressure Free Kick Zone Practice
Practise deliveries and strikes from set positions
Set Pieces
Shooting
Attacking
Pressure Free Kick Zone Practice is a 14-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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Shooting
Attacking
Technical Practice
Intermediate
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Full Squad
Agility Kit
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Under Pressure
Duration
14 min
Players
3-16
Pitch size
30 x 26 yards
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Pressure Free Kick Zone Practice — Marked area · 30 x 26 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. 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
- Dashed lines = zones / thirds
- Ball
- Poles to dribble / run through
- C = coach / 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 30 x 26 yards area.
- 2Position a recovering defender behind each working player, starting two yards back.
- 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.
- 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
- -Same approach and strike every time
- -Delivery beyond the first defender
- -Attack the delivery at pace
- -Feel the pressure with your body, take the touch away from the defender
Common mistakes
- -Blasting every free kick
- -No runners on the delivery
- -Facing your own goal and getting trapped by the press
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