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Set_pieces

Set-Piece Workshop — Attacking Corners and Free Kicks

Three rehearsed corner routines and two free-kick routines, run from both sides

Theme

Set_pieces

Duration

30 min

Players (min–rec–max)

18–18–18

Equipment

cones, balls, full goal

Set-up

Three rehearsed corner routines and two free-kick routines, run from both sides. Navas delivers — his set-piece quality makes him the obvious choice. Each routine is run 4 times at full pace with a 6-player defensive structure to oppose. GKs rotate between goal and outfield group.

Coaching points

  • Runners must time their runs to arrive as the ball arrives — not before, not after.
  • Dougherty and Humphrey attack the near post; Sowers arrives late to the back post — use their height.
  • Delivery must have pace and bend — a floated corner at this level gets punched.

Progressions

  • Add a full 11-man defensive structure to simulate a real set-piece environment.
  • Introduce a 'decoy' routine: same starting positions, different runner triggers defenders to mark wrong man.