Set Pieces
Free Kick Delivery Practice: Five Second Counter-Press
Deliver quality free kicks
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Free Kick Delivery Practice: Five Second Counter-Press is a 16-minute set pieces drill for 4-18 players, suitable for Under 11 to Adults at intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, full goals, poles. 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
16 min
Players
4-18
Pitch size
Attacking third
Ability levels
Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Free Kick Delivery Practice: Five Second Counter-Press — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · Attacking third
Step 1 of 4Alternate direct strikes over the wall and whipped deliveries into the box.
- 1. Alternate direct strikes over the wall and whipped deliveries into the box.
- 2. Runners attack the whipped balls.
- 3. Six attempts per position.
- 4. On losing the ball the team has five seconds to win it back before dropping into shape.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- GK = goalkeeper
- S = server
- Ball
- Poles to run around
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Shooter becomes the next server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Deliver quality free kicks
- -Practise direct strikes and crosses
- -Attack the delivery
Setup
- 1Poles as a wall twenty yards from goal.
- 2Free kick positions marked centrally and wide.
- 3Keeper in goal with balls at each position.
Coaching instructions
- 1Alternate direct strikes over the wall and whipped deliveries into the box.
- 2Runners attack the whipped balls.
- 3Six attempts per position.
- 4On losing the ball the team has five seconds to win it back before dropping into shape.
Coaching points
- -Set the ball and pick the target before the run-up
- -Strike across the ball for the whip
- -Deliver beyond the keeper's reach
- -Nearest player presses the ball instantly
- -Others screen the forward pass and squeeze up
Common mistakes
- -Rushing the run-up
- -Same delivery every time
- -Runners moving too early