Score from a corner without heading it. Play short to drag a defender out, attack the space he leaves, get to the byline, and pull the ball back low for a runner striking from the edge.
Set up a corner with four attackers and two defenders plus a keeper. The corner is played short to a team-mate who has moved toward the corner of the penalty area. At least one defender must come out to press him, and that is the whole point of the routine. The receiver either returns it or drives at the byline himself, then pulls the ball back along the ground toward the edge of the box, where a third player arrives to strike it first time. No delivery may leave the ground at any stage. Rehearse it twice walking through, then run it live against defenders who are allowed to press properly. Work both corners.
Watch a youth corner and you will usually see the same thing: the ball swung hopefully toward a crowd of children in the six-yard box, none of whom are permitted to head it. Deliberate heading has been removed from matches through the youngest age groups, so the traditional corner is not merely low percentage at this level, it is aimed at an outcome that would be an indirect free kick against you.
The short corner is the obvious answer and it is a better one than it first appears, because it does not just avoid the problem, it creates a new one for the defending team.
A defending side sets up for a corner by filling the box. Play it short and somebody has to leave that shape and come out, and the instant he does there is a gap exactly where he was standing. The routine is designed to attack that gap, not to restart possession safely.
Which means the most important coaching point is the one that sounds like a mistake: if nobody comes out to press, the short receiver should simply carry the ball in. An unpressed short corner is a free run at goal from the byline, and taking it is not a failure of the routine, it is the routine working perfectly.
Getting to the byline before pulling it back matters for the same reason it matters in open play. A ball pulled back early can be gathered by a goalkeeper facing it. A ball pulled back from the line arrives behind every defender, all of whom are now looking at their own goal.
The target area also changes. With no heading, the six-yard box is the least useful place to stand, and the edge is the most useful, because a player arriving there has the ball at his feet and the whole goal in front of him. Teams take a while to unlearn crowding the near post.
And the strike should be first time. The defence is scrambling backwards for exactly one moment, and a touch to set the ball is enough to end it.
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