Beat the wall and the keeper from a dead ball. Strike the lower half of the ball with sidespin to lift it over the wall and bend it into the top corner, or drive it low into the gap the keeper cannot cover.
Place the ball around nineteen metres out with a mannequin wall 9.15m away (the shooting lane starts there). Pick one solution at a time: over the wall into the top corner with sidespin, or low and driven around the wall. Approach at an angle, plant foot beside the ball, and strike through it. Add keeper pressure once the strike is stable.
The direct free kick is the most practised skill in football and the worst practised. Players spend an hour hitting the same ball from the same spot and improve almost nothing, because they change the solution every attempt: one curled, one driven, one over, one round. Nothing gets grooved.
Pick one strike and stay on it for the whole session. From around nineteen metres with a four-player wall there are only two real answers, and they are opposites. The curled ball is struck across the lower half with the instep coming around the ball, lifting it over the wall and bending it back down into the top corner. Sidespin does the work, not power, and players who try to hit it hard flatten the flight and put it into the stand.
The driven ball is the other answer, and it is underrated at youth level because it looks less impressive. Struck low and hard through the gap the wall leaves, or at the side the keeper has vacated because he is covering the curl, it arrives before the keeper can move. Against a wall that jumps, the ball under it is often more available than the ball over it.
The detail that decides both is the plant foot. It points where the ball starts, not where it finishes. Players who aim the standing foot at the target square the hips and lose the ability to bring the foot across, which is what produces the spin in the first place.
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