Corners and Set Pieces

[FromTheBench]

Corners and Set pieces have made a comeback this world cup as primary attacking weapons.

Is it the var not allowing holding and pulling that is helping, more drilled set play programmers for. Teams?

Is the Era of midget(relatively) tiki taka football now. Over?

 

[antsmithmk]

VAR has helped so much. Teams like England have built their games around set pieces safe in the knowledge that any holding will bring a penalty.

 

[The Purley King]

Anyone who has a pre-set agenda against France should probably be pissing and moaning that the game was decided from a set piece.............

 

[FlawlessThaw]

Once VAR is in full force, someone's going to have to have a word with Smalling.

 

[Infra-red]

VAR has helped. Imperative that we have a decent (or a few decent) set piece takers in the side by the time VAR is brought into the Premier League. Until the defenders get used to defending set pieces without holding their opponents, there will be a lot of goals/penalties to be had.

 

[WR10]

Well, look at England's corner drill. They stand in a harmless line one behind the other just before they run to their attacking positions. You literally have to commit a VAR foul in order to stop them from attacking their respective positions. Of course defenders are letting go because of VAR.

 

[awop]

You literally have to commit a VAR foul in order to stop them from attacking their respective positions. Of course defenders are letting go because of VAR.

What's a VAR foul ?

 

[whatwha]

Once VAR is in full force, someone's going to have to have a word with Smalling.

Should just sell him already

 

[99withaflake]

What's a VAR foul ?

A clear and obvious foul that would be pulled up by the VAR team (I think).

 

[Yeesheng]

Once VAR is in full force, someone's going to have to have a word with Smalling.

might be precisely why he wasn't brought along to WC

 

[Keeps It tidy]

Even in countries that have VAR in their domestic leagues I do not think this trend will continue. It is a lot easier for a club manager to drill their team on defending set pieces.

 

[WR10]

What's a VAR foul ?

A Smalling foul

 

[Andycoleno9]

Fantastic result of our countries( england and croatia) masked the fact that football in this wc is not good. Art of defence went on another level and art of attack stayed on same level as it was. In past nearly every wc produced something new in attacking game. Brasil came with their ginga football with pele, then we had dutch total football with cruyf, brasil with superb quick football 1998 and 2002, then spain introduced tiki taka and last cup germans won with high tempo football. This wc teams struggle to create clear chances. France is the best team of tournament but they play patient and cautious football. They put their faith in fantastic defensive play and moments of magic of their attacking players.

 

[the_irish123]

Today it is very hard to score goals. You need elaborate attacks and movements.

That's why half goals are set pieces now. You get a cheap chance by iffy contacts you get to lump people in the box and score. FIFA needs to stop this from being possible, like you can only send the ball into the box directly if the foul is X amount of meters from the box. Or make teams play short corners.

Those 50/50 fouls in the middle of the pitch should not = huge scoring chance. Sorry..

 

[Trizy]

Maybe this is what Jose has been building for?

Park the bus = very low amount of goals conceeded.
Sign big players = all the goals from set pieces.

Once VAR is in full affect, we're gonna win the treble and no one can stop us. No really

 

[Classical Mechanic]

Corners and set pieces have been very important in the World Cup for years. In 1998, 2006 and 2014 the team with the highest amount of set piece goals have won the tournament. This is exactly why Southgate has made them a priority.

 

[MoskvaRed]

Anyone who has a pre-set agenda against France should probably be pissing and moaning that the game was decided from a set piece.............

As was their previous game against Uruguay (if we ignore the “Karius”).

 

[FootballHQ]

Hasn't it always been that way at international level? Not sure what percentage of goals were scored from set plays at last World cup (less penalties of course) but generally even the weaker teams at tournaments are well organised, look at Brazil taking 90 minutes to score a goal v Costa Rica which wouldn't have happened in the 70s and 80s.

Norn Iron had their great run 2-3 years back and majority of their goals came from set pieces. Wales and Iceland were also good at them in the euros.