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Wide Delivery Practice: Score Challenge

Deliver accurate crosses from wide

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Wide Delivery Practice: Score Challenge is a 15-minute crossing drill for 4-16 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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Duration

15 min

Players

4-16

Pitch size

Half pitch

Ability levels

Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Pitch diagram

Pitch set-up: Wide Delivery Practice: Score Challenge12Half pitch

Wide Delivery Practice: Score Challenge — Pairs facing each other · Half pitch

Step 1 of 4Crosser takes a touch and delivers into a called zone.

  1. 1. Crosser takes a touch and delivers into a called zone.
  2. 2. Alternate flanks so both feet are used.
  3. 3. Six crosses each side.
  4. 4. Run it as a timed competition — pairs or teams count successful reps and compare scores.
  • Ball
  • Pairs working across a marked lane
  • 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

  1. 1Crossing cones on both flanks level with the box.
  2. 2Target zones marked at near post, penalty spot and far post.
  3. 3Keeper in goal with balls on each flank.

Coaching instructions

  1. 1Crosser takes a touch and delivers into a called zone.
  2. 2Alternate flanks so both feet are used.
  3. 3Six crosses each side.
  4. 4Run it as a timed competition — pairs or teams count successful reps and compare scores.

Coaching points

  • -Open the hips and use the instep for whip
  • -Cross ahead of the runner, not behind
  • -Deliver beyond the keeper's reach
  • -Keep quality while the score matters
  • -Reset quickly between reps to fit more in

Common mistakes

  • -Crossing behind the runners
  • -Over-hit deliveries
  • -Standing still before the cross

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