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Set-Pieces - a long standing issue?
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How many defenders are on international duty ? Happy won't be able to work on much this week.0
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Carter said:I love set pieces, they are great levellers at any tier of the game. When trying a new trick, chaos and the spreading of chaos amongst the opposition is the aim of the game. Everyone groans when a short corner is attempted, I get them but they have to have a purpose. If you have David Beckham in your side you can have him swinging corners in and out onto towering attacking centre halves heads all day but this level you have to be sly, deviant and different. There are plenty of ways you can do it and I'd expect our coaches to have done more regarding at least the attacking ones.
Defending them we have a problem and defending set pieces is all about communication, decisions and aggression. Attack the ball, I don't like zonal marking but I understand the point of it, when we had Jayden he was our free headerer, he could patrol his own zone and most of the time dealt with sloppy deliveries. Our defence mince too much and do a phenomenal amount of ball watching when defending free kicks and corners which is the first thing that must change
Generally, for what ever reason, even the best dead ball players are much worse at corners than you would expect them to be.0 -
I remember back when Jacko was still playing, he said he didn't feel his teammates were aggressive enough in attacking the ball at set pieces because that's really the key to scoring goals. Micky Apples said in his first interview we need to be more aggressive. There has definitely been a lack of desire to lose markers and get to the ball, coupled with poor deliveries.2
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Set pieces do my head in,how hard is it to kick a dead ball 40-50 yards in the air.Sunday morning players can do it,but just watch our elite professionals ,how many corners dont even make the penalty area,how many dead ball kicks go straight to the keeper,it is simple just aim for the penalty spot and have the attackers running on to it from the penalty area edge.0
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According to this between 2010 and 2020 only 3% of corners in Europe’s top 5 leagues resulted in a goal. Shows they’re not anywhere near as effective as they’re perceived to be.
https://youtu.be/rvP3Ee12sU8?si=P3hcajy4YcynxEb6
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Had a look back at our league goals (with basic FotMob descriptions rather than watching them so might not be accurate) and noticed we've only conceded from 1 corner and 1 free kick in the league this season. Going by my memory we've conceded at least 2 from our own attacking set pieces too. Not sure that tells the whole story though as we're definitely very shakey and seem to get lucky not to concede quite frequently0
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fenaddick said:Had a look back at our league goals (with basic FotMob descriptions rather than watching them so might not be accurate) and noticed we've only conceded from 1 corner and 1 free kick in the league this season. Going by my memory we've conceded at least 2 from our own attacking set pieces too. Not sure that tells the whole story though as we're definitely very shakey and seem to get lucky not to concede quite frequently
The actual delivery in doesn't lead directly to a goal but the defence end up dithering and confused so each time ends up giving the opposition maybe 2 or 3 bites at the metaphorical apple beyond that initial ball in, which eventually is going to tell... and does.2 -
thenewbie said:fenaddick said:Had a look back at our league goals (with basic FotMob descriptions rather than watching them so might not be accurate) and noticed we've only conceded from 1 corner and 1 free kick in the league this season. Going by my memory we've conceded at least 2 from our own attacking set pieces too. Not sure that tells the whole story though as we're definitely very shakey and seem to get lucky not to concede quite frequently
The actual delivery in doesn't lead directly to a goal but the defence end up dithering and confused so each time ends up giving the opposition maybe 2 or 3 bites at the metaphorical apple beyond that initial ball in, which eventually is going to tell... and does.1 -
fenaddick said:thenewbie said:fenaddick said:Had a look back at our league goals (with basic FotMob descriptions rather than watching them so might not be accurate) and noticed we've only conceded from 1 corner and 1 free kick in the league this season. Going by my memory we've conceded at least 2 from our own attacking set pieces too. Not sure that tells the whole story though as we're definitely very shakey and seem to get lucky not to concede quite frequently
The actual delivery in doesn't lead directly to a goal but the defence end up dithering and confused so each time ends up giving the opposition maybe 2 or 3 bites at the metaphorical apple beyond that initial ball in, which eventually is going to tell... and does.
This will hopefully be less of an issue with Leaburn back or even someone like Tedic giving us a chance to actually break in numbers, or at least make other teams have to consider leaving more players back.
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It's almost as if we need a big aggressive CB for corners at both ends of the pitch.2
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Cafc43v3r said:Carter said:I love set pieces, they are great levellers at any tier of the game. When trying a new trick, chaos and the spreading of chaos amongst the opposition is the aim of the game. Everyone groans when a short corner is attempted, I get them but they have to have a purpose. If you have David Beckham in your side you can have him swinging corners in and out onto towering attacking centre halves heads all day but this level you have to be sly, deviant and different. There are plenty of ways you can do it and I'd expect our coaches to have done more regarding at least the attacking ones.
Defending them we have a problem and defending set pieces is all about communication, decisions and aggression. Attack the ball, I don't like zonal marking but I understand the point of it, when we had Jayden he was our free headerer, he could patrol his own zone and most of the time dealt with sloppy deliveries. Our defence mince too much and do a phenomenal amount of ball watching when defending free kicks and corners which is the first thing that must change
Generally, for what ever reason, even the best dead ball players are much worse at corners than you would expect them to be.
The first thing with set pieces is that players must understand where they need to be positioned and what their job is (blocker, decoy etc) both offensively and defensively. Then its about putting the ball in the right area, if you have Pirlo or Beckham that bit takes care of itself, then its on the players to properly attack the ball with desire and intent3