It's about playing to your strengths. If a team is unlikely to win a header they have to work other options. Short corners, hard low corners etc. Our success rate from them isn't good.
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Was excellent for Shrewsbury when they reached the playoff final, but just come back from a long term knee injury. As we’ve seen with George Cooper, that is problematic.
I’m not sure I’d understand this one to be honest, if it does happen.
A well directed long ball directed towards the opposition corner flag for someone like Garrick or Hardie to run for, would be better than 'hoofing it aimlessly' in my opinion
We would have nothing to lose by trying this tactic every now and again. We aren't having much sucess floating the ball in. A low hard cross would be difficult to defend.
It's not such an easy thing to do. Have you tried ? How many strikers shoot over the bar. Its a bit of a skill to keep it low. Usually its achieved via a short corner, but that gives defending teams a chance to close you down.
No, not easier.
There's a risk of hand ball and a penalty being conceded, it's a great 'leveller' in that it annuls height advantage and the attacking team benefits because they will know roughly where the ball is going
Nothing says lack of rumours on transfer deadline day than a discussion on corner routines!
FWIW I can’t imagine a low driven corner would beat the first man very often….
FWIW I can’t imagine a low driven corner would beat the first man very often….
This thread has drifted from 'transfers' to the apparent ineffectiveness of corners as an opportunity to score. When I played football many years ago I looked upon corners as hopefully an advantageous opportunity to score derived from attacking pressure upon the opponents defence. I do not know the stats, which indicate the number of goals scored as an outcome from an attacking corner these days, but it is my thought that corners are no longer the positive action that they used to be. This is brought about by concentrating defending in big numbers in the penalty area and the virtual man handling by defenders against the opposition, which is seemingly accepted by referees. I refer to the arms 'loosely' arranged around the attacking opposition's upper torso. The blocking of Mike Cooper at Fleetwood is also a casing point. I do believe the FA should be looking at this whole issue for the betterment of the game.
If I remember correctly a chapter in Soccernomics strongly evidenced that conventional corners are a complete waste of time, and a goal is far more likely to be scored if you simply pushed the ball out into open play.
