Reply With Quote93 goals from corners really. Be an interesting stat on how many goals have come direct from corners.Originally Posted by Carlton_Pie
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93 goals this season might say differently.
We play short free kicks, so why wouldn't play short corners too? It's all part of LW plan to dominate the ball and make the opposition run to tire them out. Keeping the ball in play prevents them having a rest with a stop start game with plenty of breaks in play.
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93 goals from corners really. Be an interesting stat on how many goals have come direct from corners.
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Last edited by SwalePie; 12-03-2023 at 11:36 AM.
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You're quite right. We don't have a big man to aim at which begs the question as to why Brooks kept hoofing the ball up the field and losing possession on most occasions
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Jones is the ideal player for short corners but his cute little touches will only be effective if the ref enforces the 10 metre rule.
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Short corners are fine but let's have a bit of variation now and again, surely we can work out a few moves on the training pitch.
The other thing that bugs me about them is how much time we take over them, we moan about the opposition wasting time and please let someone else take throws instead of Nemane, he takes ages to throw the damn thing.
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It's 9.15 metres!
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When you score 93 goals in total personally I don't care how many or more accurately how few come from corners. The overall approach is clearly working and feels wrong to complain too loudly about set pieces.
I understand why we go short every time, peak Barca were famous for it, I also agree it would be nice to mix it up a little with some put in at pace (as we did once yesterday) but when we got a corner last night I looked in the box and thought who's the genuine threat? Bajrami, yup. Rawlinson , clearly but mystifyingly he was kept back on the half way line as one of two. Can't work that one out. Regardless especially with Scott out we had next to nobody to aim at in there. Even fewer than normal.
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The perpetual short corners annoy me also, they crowd the corner of the pitch with sometimes 3 players to get the ball early. There is another option that doesn't involve lumping it into the box, how about a long pass to one of our players. If they did that they might just get a player in space.
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This^^^ Long pass to a defender "ghosting" into the edge of the box or a hard knee height ball drilled in into the 5.4864 metre box.
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This.
Most teams take a short corner every so often to mix things up, but we're doing it almost every time and it is becoming predictable, as demonstrated by the tactics now being employed by opponents to shut us down.
The whole idea of winning a corner is essentially to be able to put an unchallenged cross into the box, and I think the quality of the delivery matters far more than the height in the penalty area. I can remember many Notts teams in the past that had plenty of height, but nobody with the quality to deliver a decent corner or cross, so our goal output was low. Right now we've players like Jones, Rodrigues and Bostock who are all capable of delivering good quality balls into the box, and we've got arguably the sharpest "fox in the box" in the country, so we shouldn't be too shy to put it in the mixer a bit more often, which will have the added bonus of keeping opponents guessing.
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