Improving your Set Plays: Soccer Corners
Channel: Simon Swan
Date: 2013-10-11

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I've been putting some videos together on tactical soccer plays and drills that you can include in your soccer training. One of the areas that I've found my own team is weak, is set plays, for example, corners.

We just have a bunch of guys in the penalty box, standing there with no movement at all. And when the ball comes in, the defense or keeper defuses the situation easily. We do score occasionally from corners but it's more from luck than planning. So we need to work on our corners and we're adding this to our list of soccer drills, along with the basic soccer ones like shooting, passing, dribbling etc. It will add to our wag of soccer skills and have us looking like professional soccer players in no time!

Here is a tactical play for soccer corners that I've picked up, and wanted to share with you.
To start with, we're going to have a number of attacking players (say 3 or 4) standing at the edge of the 18-yard box, towards the center, who will of course be marked by 3 or 4 defenders.
We put another player near the halfway line, and of course we've got the person taking the corner.

The plan is for the ball to be passed from the corner, into open space, to the corner of the 18-yard box.

Sometimes a defender will stand near the edge of the 18-yard box, creating an obstacle for the person taking the corner. To move them and create space, the player near the halfway moves forward towards the 18-yard box (but not too close), to draw the defender out. This creates the necessary space for the initial pass from the player taking the corner.

When they're ready to go, the ball will be passed along the ground, with speed, into space towards the corner of the 18-yard box. At the same time, one of the attackers standing at the top of the 18-yard box will sprint towards the corner of the 18-yard box, where the ball is being passed. Obviously, accuracy of the pass is critical. And to perfect that precision, make sure every soccer training session includes some passing drills.

The attacker making the run should get to the corner of the 18-yard box as the ball arrives, and find themselves in open space, with time to shoot at goal.

This tactical play is relatively simple. By having the group of attacking players standing at the top of the 18-yard box, it draws the defense out, which creates space and the opportunity to shoot.

As with any set piece, it needs to be well communicated at the time, so that everyone knows what they have to do. And you obviously need to practice it during training. So add it to your list for next week's training session, and watch your team's soccer skills improve.


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