Crossing
Wide Delivery Practice: Tempo Clock
Deliver accurate crosses from wide
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Wide Delivery Practice: Tempo Clock 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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Goals Needed
Speed of Play
Tempo
Competitive
Duration
15 min
Players
4-16
Pitch size
Half pitch
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Wide Delivery Practice: Tempo Clock — 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. The ball must reach the end action inside six seconds or the rep restarts.
- Cones mark the area
- Dashed lines = zones / thirds
- Ball
- 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.
- 4The ball must reach the end action inside six seconds or the rep restarts.
Coaching points
- -Open the hips and use the instep for whip
- -Cross ahead of the runner, not behind
- -Deliver beyond the keeper's reach
- -Pass with pace and intent
- -Move before the ball arrives, not after
Common mistakes
- -Crossing behind the runners
- -Over-hit deliveries
- -Standing still before the cross