Football: Cut back then Shot

Get your goalkeepers dealing with cutbacks by staying on their feet and anticipating the change of angle.

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• Goalkeeper steps away from cone comes through the gate receives a ball into hands
• Returns to server then gets a low shot into dive close to body
• Get into set position initially then step forward into low dive to save before cones in advance of initial gate

Notes:

• Get the step in if required
• If serve close too the body collapse legs and get hands to the ball in front of the body
• Dive forward this called 'Attacking the dive'

 

Players start on their knees and roll down to their left or right depending on the feed to catch the ball.

Starting on the middle cone the keeper moves out to their right to catch the first feed.

After getting back to their feet and rolling the ball back out they side-step back towards the middle cone, ready to dive and catch the next rolled ball from the second feeder.

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• Set up 4 mini goals using cones. These do not need to be large as we are still working on movement.
• First goalkeeper moves to the byline and plays a cutback ball along the ground. The goalkeeper makes a save.
• If the ball is secured the goalkeeper working then comes out of the back of their mini goal, rolls a ball to themselves and then cuts the ball back to the next goalkeeper.
• Walk through the drill to begin with and do a full set so all of the goalkeepers know their role
• Repeat until a full set has been completed.
• If ball is parried into danger zone GK to get up fast and try and get into line with the ball to block the impending shot