Receiving
Back To Goal Receiving: 1-to-1 Session
Receive with a defender behind
Receiving
Finishing
Dribbling
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Back To Goal Receiving: 1-to-1 Session is a 16-minute receiving drill for 1-2 players, suitable for Under 9 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.
Back to drill libraryReceiving
Finishing
Dribbling
Skill Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
1-to-1
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Individual Development
Small Group
Duration
16 min
Players
1-2
Pitch size
30 x 25 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Back To Goal Receiving: 1-to-1 Session — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · 30 x 25 yards
Step 1 of 5Server plays into the striker who decides to turn or set.
- 1. Server plays into the striker who decides to turn or set.
- 2. If they turn, they attack the goal; if they set, they spin for a return.
- 3. Rotate every three repetitions.
- 4. Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
- 5. Rotation: Rotate every three repetitions.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- GK = goalkeeper
- C = coach / server
- Ball
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Shooter becomes the next server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Receive with a defender behind
- -Turn or set depending on pressure
- -Finish after the turn
Setup
- 1Goal with keeper, striker thirty yards out with back to goal.
- 2Server behind the striker, defender marking tight.
- 3Cones marking the receiving zone.
Coaching instructions
- 1Server plays into the striker who decides to turn or set.
- 2If they turn, they attack the goal; if they set, they spin for a return.
- 3Rotate every three repetitions.
- 4Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
Coaching points
- -Feel where the defender is before the ball arrives
- -Take the touch across the defender's body
- -Be decisive: turn or set, never in-between
- -Detailed feedback after every rep
- -Quality of contact over volume
Common mistakes
- -Letting the ball run across the body
- -Standing still to receive
- -Turning into pressure