Set Pieces
Defending Corners Organisation: Five Second Counter-Press
Organise the defensive corner set-up
Set Pieces
Defending
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Defending Corners Organisation: Five Second Counter-Press is a 18-minute set pieces drill for 8-20 players, suitable for Under 11 to Adults at 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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Intermediate
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Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
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Counter Press
Transition
Duration
18 min
Players
8-20
Pitch size
Penalty area
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Defending Corners Organisation: Five Second Counter-Press — 4 gates — score by travelling through · Penalty area
Step 1 of 4Attackers deliver, defenders clear and counter into a halfway gate.
- 1. Attackers deliver, defenders clear and counter into a halfway gate.
- 2. Coach freezes the set-up to check positions.
- 3. Twelve corners then swap.
- 4. On losing the ball the team has five seconds to win it back before dropping into shape.
- Cones mark the area
- Cone gates to dribble / pass through
- Ball
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Organise the defensive corner set-up
- -Clear the first and second ball
- -Start the counter after the clearance
Setup
- 1Defenders positioned in a mixed zonal and man set-up.
- 2Attackers with corner takers on both sides.
- 3Target gates at halfway for the counter.
Coaching instructions
- 1Attackers deliver, defenders clear and counter into a halfway gate.
- 2Coach freezes the set-up to check positions.
- 3Twelve corners then swap.
- 4On losing the ball the team has five seconds to win it back before dropping into shape.
Coaching points
- -Post players stay until the ball is cleared
- -Attack the ball, do not watch the runner
- -Push out together on the clearance
- -Nearest player presses the ball instantly
- -Others screen the forward pass and squeeze up
Common mistakes
- -Ball watching in the box
- -Nobody guarding the edge
- -Slow to push out after clearing