Set Pieces
Defending Corners Organisation: Target Zone Bonus
Organise the defensive corner set-up
Set Pieces
Defending
Defending Corners Organisation: Target Zone Bonus 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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Defending
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Skill Practice
Intermediate
Advanced
Full Squad
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Playing Through The Thirds
Positioning
Combination Play
Duration
18 min
Players
8-20
Pitch size
Penalty area
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Defending Corners Organisation: Target Zone Bonus — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · 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. Extra points for playing into marked pockets between the lines before finishing.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- S = server
- Ball
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Shooter becomes the next server
- 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.
- 4Extra points for playing into marked pockets between the lines before finishing.
Coaching points
- -Post players stay until the ball is cleared
- -Attack the ball, do not watch the runner
- -Push out together on the clearance
- -Find the pocket on the back foot of the defender
- -Support the receiver quickly on both sides
Common mistakes
- -Ball watching in the box
- -Nobody guarding the edge
- -Slow to push out after clearing