Crossing
Wide Delivery Practice: 1-to-1 Session
Deliver accurate crosses from wide
Crossing
Finishing
Attacking
Wide Delivery Practice: 1-to-1 Session is a 15-minute crossing drill for 1-2 players, suitable for Under 9 to Adults at beginner, 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.
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Technical Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
1-to-1
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Individual Development
Small Group
Duration
15 min
Players
1-2
Pitch size
Half pitch
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Wide Delivery Practice: 1-to-1 Session — Marked area · Half pitch
Step 1 of 4Crosser takes a touch and delivers into a called zone.
- 1. Crosser takes a touch and delivers into a called zone.
- 2. Alternate flanks so both feet are used.
- 3. Six crosses each side.
- 4. Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
- Cones mark the area
- Dashed lines = zones / thirds
- Ball
- C = coach / server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Deliver accurate crosses from wide
- -Vary the type of delivery
- -Match the cross to the runners
Setup
- 1Crossing cones on both flanks level with the box.
- 2Target zones marked at near post, penalty spot and far post.
- 3Keeper in goal with balls on each flank.
Coaching instructions
- 1Crosser takes a touch and delivers into a called zone.
- 2Alternate flanks so both feet are used.
- 3Six crosses each side.
- 4Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
Coaching points
- -Open the hips and use the instep for whip
- -Cross ahead of the runner, not behind
- -Deliver beyond the keeper's reach
- -Detailed feedback after every rep
- -Quality of contact over volume
Common mistakes
- -Crossing behind the runners
- -Over-hit deliveries
- -Standing still before the cross