mjc23
Terry Fenwick
Helps having Trent Alexander Arnold who can put it on a plate and a player as tall and athletic as Virgil Van Djik who can attack the ball.
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Set Pieces
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monkeybarry
Ian Walker
We are third highest scorers from headers though.
Might be something to combine with a set piece. (Also, at what point does a set prece become a next phase? When it's played short?)
Might be something to combine with a set piece. (Also, at what point does a set prece become a next phase? When it's played short?)
braineclipse
Willie Hall
As someone pointed out having van Dijk, a player that can be dominant in the air even against big and strong PL players probably makes some difference.
Vertonghen and Alderweireld are fairly strong, fairly big, but they're not dominant in the same way. I think the same can be said about Dier and Kane. Sanchez seems to me to have very little accuracy with his headers all over the pitch, no surprise that he struggles to finish headers even when he gets to them.
Then the set piece takers. We haven't prioritized bringing in a specialist for that.
Despite this we were doing fine last season. This season everything has been a mess, no surprise set pieces are included.
SteveAWOL
Andy Thompson
The last centre back of ours that I recall having the knack of winning headers from corners was Caulker but sadly the rest of his game was nowhere near van Dijk’s level.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
those set pieces have been delivered by the FBs with quality which we don’t do
Poch did say he didn’t practice set pieces but I doubt Mou would ignore the opportunity
Maltese Falcon
Niko Kranjcar
Did he? If yes, I consider it a dereliction of duty. How can you ignore situations that occur up to 5 or 10 times in a match.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
I’m 90% certain he has
Daisuk
Les Medley
'How many countries can you think of where a corner kick is treated with the same applause as a goal?' Mourinho memorably asked. 'One. It only happens in England.'
http://www.goodfirsttouch.com/2017/3/corner-kicks-kicking-screaming
Bishop
Terry Venables
I'm amazed at this stat considering how many just hit the first man and how rarely we score directly from a freekick. Guess it says how poor the rest of the league are at converting as well as mainly remembering all the bad set pieces more so that the ones scored.
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90291Spur
Les Ferdinand
If only there was someone at the club in charge of making sure our players don’t keep making the same mistakes. Some one to manage those situations. We could call that someone the manager and they could be in charge of how the team plays.
braineclipse
Willie Hall
They had nine corners to our two. We even scored (indirectly) from one of our two.
We can improve how we defend those situations for sure, it's worth continuing to work on. But if teams get a lot more set piece opportunities than us, because they attack more and better than us, this will continue to be an issue none the less.
We can improve how we defend those situations for sure, it's worth continuing to work on. But if teams get a lot more set piece opportunities than us, because they attack more and better than us, this will continue to be an issue none the less.
metalgear
Nayim
its dier...he is no defender. good backup and fan favourite but we need better.
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nayenezgani
Jimmy Neighbour
Bring in Nagelsmann.