Far-post finishing from wide
A wide player drives a low ball across the six-yard box and a runner arrives at the far post to finish. Teaches timing runs and the low cross that's hardest to defend.
Your assistant coach: turn this drill into a full session, plan the weeks around it and tell me how it went.
Set-up
- Crossers on one wing near the byline; runners in a queue at the edge of the box.
- Keeper in goal.
Equipment: Goal, cones, balls
How it works
- Wide player dribbles to the byline area.
- Runner times a run to arrive at the far post as the ball comes across.
- Finish first time; swap wings every few minutes.
Coaching points
- Arrive, don't wait: hold your run then attack the space.
- Crosser: low and hard across the six-yard box.
- Side-foot finish, keep it down.
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Make it easier
- Coach rolls the cross in
- No keeper
Make it harder
- Add a near-post runner too
- Add a defender marking the far-post runner
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