Maybe the players feel entitled to score so they are are not being creative enough and putting in enough effort? In the same way that we feel entitled to win a match so it seems we don't even get out of first gear sometimes and our shooting is abysmal.
100 corners, no goals. Edit: 140 corners, 1 goal. 152 corners, 2 goals.
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At least we’re trying something different with the short corners. They’re still a bit rubbish so far though.
If we did manage to score, I'm sure VAR would find some way to knock it off.
This only lasted one game...
An actual Burnley counter attack from our short corner.
They are actually getting worse. More of a danger to our goal.
We’re not even trying from them anymore.
Remarkably our corners somehow keep getting worse and worse.
How many is that now about 140?
Not even any decent chances from them?
Not even any decent chances from them?
Another one
My take is we have two corner routines. Short corner, then look for Maguire at the back post. Attempting near post which gets blocked by the first defender. We hired a specialist coach for deadballs for that? The coach needs to be sacked.
The only way we reach the goalie from our corners is by giving it back to De Gea.
I cannot believe we practice corners at all
I cannot believe we practice corners at all
Honestly, I think it's better if all our corners are goal kicks instead. They represent more danger to us than to the other team.
Surely with the hundreds of millions of pounds of attacking talent, if you cross the ball into the box 125 times you'd expect to at least score once. Our XG from corners is probably negative now considering how susceptible to the counter attack we look from them...
Apart from what appears to go on or not as is more realistic, the quality of delivery is very poor. If it was being out in a particular apot with frequency you might say ye that was the idea with that one but I just don't see it. Bruno is v good from free kicks, seems totally opposite with corners, makes no sense.
127 corners, 0 goals.
The only Premier League club that have failed to score from a corner this season.
The only Premier League club that have failed to score from a corner this season.
The new coach is doing wonderful
Maguire always seems to win the ball in corners but always is off target.
He needs to be let go after this season. What an absolute wasteman
Is the curse finally broken?! 
140 corners and we finally scored a goal !!!
140!
Leeds: record breaker. Thanks!
Look if you had, 140 corners, 140 opportunities, to score, would you capture it or just let it slip?
Glad to see this thread bumped and title changed. Nice goal. More required.
A conversion rate of 0.007% on corners. 
That actually feels worse than 0%.
Seriously, we should just tell the GK to take a goal kick instead and waive the corner. We probably score more goals from opponent goal kicks.
That actually feels worse than 0%.Seriously, we should just tell the GK to take a goal kick instead and waive the corner. We probably score more goals from opponent goal kicks.
Thread name change required.
Lets hope we can get a couple more this season. If we fix this then it will be like a new weapon for us next season.
Lets hope we can get a couple more this season. If we fix this then it will be like a new weapon for us next season.
It was genius from our set piece coaches tbf.
Sucker everyone in for years and then boom. Unleashed!
Pay rise me thinks
Sucker everyone in for years and then boom. Unleashed!
Pay rise me thinks
I don't know for sure but I think the general conversion rate from corners in the PL is quite low and IIRC 1 in 30? We're still far away from it but it's not like we can expect a goal every other corner.
Agree. Not seen the stats but I bet the corner conversions are significantly lower than they used to be 20-30 years ago.
We just don’t have those big bruising tank defenders coming in late to bulldoze a header in. Tend to be just ball playing centre backs where heading isn’t there key strength.
Floodgates!
This stats from a couple of months ago:
West Ham and Wolves scored 7.8% of corners this season.
Arsenal 7%.
Liverpool and Chelsea 5.8%.
Yes these are the better teams, but your 3.3% figure seems totally inaccurate.
I'm sorry to tell you this but 1 in 30 is 3.33%.
Not true. More goals are scored from corners and set pieces in the modern game. The best teams score from almost 8% of corners, with an average of circa 5%. 20 years ago the average was 2.5%.
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A stat I just saw mentioned in passing in the athletic is that around 2% of corners lead to goals so yep the average conversion rate seems to be low.
I'm not sure how big the spread on that is though. As in should the best coached teams at the highest level expect to put in a multiple of that as @IrishRedDevil suggests. Or what games that 2% figure comes from (i.e. what levels of football are included and how many seasons back).
2 goals from corners! Absolutely brilliant! Next statue outside of OT should be Phil Jones next to a corner flag doing his special face expression.
Blimey, that is surprising!
We must be close to breaking this record again, surely? We might as well just roll the ball back to the opposition when we get a corner, we hardly ever take advantage of them, we must be amongst the worst when it comes to corners (and free kicks?) in the league?
It is amateuristic, what do they do in training?
We concede more goals from our corners than we score. We would be better off just passing them straight out for a goal kick and regrouping.