Go short?
Late charge?
Bundle the ball over the line?
Late charge?
Bundle the ball over the line?
How would you get us to score our first corner of the season?
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Bribe the oppo to empty the box
Our lot would still miss
Our lot would still miss
Buy Vestergaard, Webster and Burn.
Buy Shane Duffy or Webster
Tell Maguire to pretend he’s playing for England
Clip it out to the edge of the box for Fred to smash it on the volley.
Loan Ward-Prowse for the remainder of January.
It is astonishing how poor we are at attacking set-pieces. Especially considering we have Maguire (one of the best at heading in the EPL) and Ronaldo (who is the greatest header of a ball I've seen). On top of that we have some big units in McTom, Varane, Matic. Yet we look absolutely no threat at all from them.
No idea how our set-piece specialist coach feels who we brought in the summer.
It is astonishing how poor we are at attacking set-pieces. Especially considering we have Maguire (one of the best at heading in the EPL) and Ronaldo (who is the greatest header of a ball I've seen). On top of that we have some big units in McTom, Varane, Matic. Yet we look absolutely no threat at all from them.
No idea how our set-piece specialist coach feels who we brought in the summer.
hahaha... that's a good one
Beating the first man would be a great start.
oh for near post flick on. I’m sure our full time set piece coach will give this idea some thought before the seasons out… won’t he?..
oh for near post flick on. I’m sure our full time set piece coach will give this idea some thought before the seasons out… won’t he?..
By making Phil Jones taking them.
Thunderous volley from the edge of the box is always the best.
Eric Ramsay is that you?
Aim for someone's backside. Best odds, no doubt.
Switch GKs with the other team for corners
White kit, Shaw to take, Maguire to nod in
Send up Victor
Cross ball
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Profit
Cross ball
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Profit
What are you on about?!. You don't score goals from corners... You get corners to add to your corner stat count. Which adds to your overall attacking threat percentage!
Especially if it's Shaw's
Convince Slabhead he's playing for England.
Send up De Gea,
The new addition set piece coach is a absolute joke.
Bring back Fellaini
We're scoring from 1 tonight
Cough and sneeze loudly as the corner is being taken
Just tell Fernandes to shoot instead of cross.
Telles to Maguire or Ronaldo seems like the most obvious avenue
Our corners are so strange, the % we beat the first man must be the lowest in the league, surely? It would certainly be interesting to see some stats.
I get that dipping the ball just over the near-post defender at pace is probably the most productive zone to hit...but have we analysed how hard it is to hit that zone?
By that I mean, perhaps we have determined that hitting that 'Goldilocks zone' results in a goal 25% of the time...but if hitting that zone is near-impossible (particularly if the other team know that's your plan), then 25% of nothing is still nothing.
Perhaps it would be better, therefore, to hit the penalty spot or the back post? Again, in theory, these might be less productive areas....but if they're easier to hit, may result in more goals? For example, if only 1 in 20 corners that hit the penalty spot result in a goal, but a professional footballer can hit that spot 80% of the time, then we would have four goals from corners by now, probabilistically speaking.
It wouldn't surprise me if this wasn't part of our thinking, since we'll definitely be running the numbers and analysing the Data. Trouble is, same as I have said with our recruitment, you can have all the Data in the World, but it's actually counter-productive if you're measuring the wrong things or drawing the wrong conclusions from the Data.
Fact - we don't score goals from set-pieces...and we're by no means at all a small side...so something is definitely wrong. It's statistically un-probable we would be this bad by chance
I read lots of books on Data (nerdy I know) and you'd be surprised how often very intelligent, highly-qualified professionals make mistakes like the one I have described above.
I get that dipping the ball just over the near-post defender at pace is probably the most productive zone to hit...but have we analysed how hard it is to hit that zone?
By that I mean, perhaps we have determined that hitting that 'Goldilocks zone' results in a goal 25% of the time...but if hitting that zone is near-impossible (particularly if the other team know that's your plan), then 25% of nothing is still nothing.
Perhaps it would be better, therefore, to hit the penalty spot or the back post? Again, in theory, these might be less productive areas....but if they're easier to hit, may result in more goals? For example, if only 1 in 20 corners that hit the penalty spot result in a goal, but a professional footballer can hit that spot 80% of the time, then we would have four goals from corners by now, probabilistically speaking.
It wouldn't surprise me if this wasn't part of our thinking, since we'll definitely be running the numbers and analysing the Data. Trouble is, same as I have said with our recruitment, you can have all the Data in the World, but it's actually counter-productive if you're measuring the wrong things or drawing the wrong conclusions from the Data.
Fact - we don't score goals from set-pieces...and we're by no means at all a small side...so something is definitely wrong. It's statistically un-probable we would be this bad by chance
I read lots of books on Data (nerdy I know) and you'd be surprised how often very intelligent, highly-qualified professionals make mistakes like the one I have described above.
Play a pass to the edge of the box for Mctom to blast it in, like Scholes vs bradford.
most goals from corners are scored by headers by tall players. our opta rating for headersfrombigguys is approx 0.0345 (which is very low). so get some bigger guys. next.
and no im not confusing last nights dream containing homoerotic fantasies with our set piece prowess.
At this point I want us to go the entire season without scoring from one, just for the fun of it. Could be one of those pub quiz questions decades from now.
Same, have Telles or Shaw take it and square pass it to either one of Bruno or McT who should both be just out of the box.
If both are man-marked, cross into the box.
If one of Bruno or Scott get closed-down after receiving the ball they should pass it to the other.
If both get closed down after one of them receive the ball surely that should free-up someone else.
Organisation. Delivery. Conviction.
Let Jones take them
Wonder if this has anything to do with us not scoring from corners this season...
Taken from an article published back in August before the season began:
"Last week (in July), the Football Association (FA), Premier League and other governing bodies announced guidelines limiting "high-impact" headers to 10 per week in training from the 2021-22 season"
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/s...alth-warning-says-dementia-expert-2021-08-02/
Taken from an article published back in August before the season began:
"Last week (in July), the Football Association (FA), Premier League and other governing bodies announced guidelines limiting "high-impact" headers to 10 per week in training from the 2021-22 season"
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/s...alth-warning-says-dementia-expert-2021-08-02/
Send only one man into the box and everyone else can stand by our bench drinking water.
Send David De Gea.
When nothing works, try something exceedingly stupid.
Kick the ball straight out for a goal kick and then execute the most intense gegenpress ever seen.
Hire a sniper to take out the first defender that clears 90% of our corners
Is there a particular one you'd recommend for the general reader?