Attacking
Attacking Crossing Game: Switch To Score
Create and finish crossing chances
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Attacking Crossing Game: Switch To Score is a 20-minute attacking drill for 10-20 players, suitable for Under 10 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, bibs, full goals. 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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Duration
20 min
Players
10-20
Pitch size
50 x 40 yards with wide channels
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Attacking Crossing Game: Switch To Score — Goalkeeping set-up — serve, save, reset · 50 x 40 yards with wide channels
Step 1 of 4Goals from a cross count double.
- 1. Goals from a cross count double.
- 2. Wide channel players are unopposed.
- 3. Five minute games with a short rest.
- 4. A goal only counts after the ball has been switched from one side of the pitch to the other.
- 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
- -Create and finish crossing chances
- -Use the wide channels
- -Attack the box with numbers
Setup
- 1Pitch with five yard wide channels down each side.
- 2One free wide player per team in each channel.
- 3Two full goals with keepers.
Coaching instructions
- 1Goals from a cross count double.
- 2Wide channel players are unopposed.
- 3Five minute games with a short rest.
- 4A goal only counts after the ball has been switched from one side of the pitch to the other.
Coaching points
- -Get the ball wide early when the middle is blocked
- -Attack near post, penalty spot and back post
- -Deliver first time when the runners are moving
- -Recognise when the near side is blocked
- -Change the point of attack with a fast, driven pass
Common mistakes
- -Nobody attacking the far post
- -Crossing with no one in the box
- -Wide players taking too many touches