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[Albion] Corners, throw ins and free kicks..
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BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Did seem a really bizarre tactic. Had to act like a battering ram trying to force his way through a packed sea of players.
Arsenal's corners on the other hand were sublime - very dangerous
Get Vincente back?
BRIGHT ON Q
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I was watching the Ipswich Norwich game earlier and they said that Norwich sacked the set piece coach and they haven't looked back since, scoring for fun now. Maybe we should row them out.And we have a guy who’s literal full time job is ‘set piece coach’
Doesn’t help that Gross appears to have turned in to Dean Cox with his inability to beat the first man
Milano
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Gross taking every single corner drives me mad, I know Solly was taking some. We need an alternative quickly.
I’m not sure I’m allowed to say this on here for fear of the uberfan police, but, I don’t think Gross is very good at taking set pieces.
I’m not sure I’m allowed to say this on here for fear of the uberfan police, but, I don’t think Gross is very good at taking set pieces.
Johnny RoastBeef
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- Jan 11, 2016
- 3,158
Let me start by saying Pascal Gross is my favourite player.
But we need someone else on corners.
Gross' deadballs have led to 2 Premier League goals all season, he's taken 243 deadballs, 92 of those were corners. (Dead balls include free kicks, corner kicks, kick offs, throw-ins and goal kicks). So at the very best 2.2% of his corners have resulted in a goal.
Last season, according to OPTA 15.8% of corners, from all teams combined, led to goals in the Premier League.
So if Pascal had been as efficient as those OPTA stats he'd have created 14 goals, from corners, this season.
His weak corners are effectively 12 goals below par.
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Flounce
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- Nov 15, 2006
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Remember when we used to get excited with a corner? These days we might as well give the opposition a goal kick, at least we’d avoid getting caught on the break.
I have commented on it on another thread but we really should be looking for an alternative to Gross on all set pieces. I find it hard to believe nobody else could do better, they’d certainly struggle to do worse
Given how RDZ has us playing such great passing football and is fanatical about it. Why hasn’t he taken time out to do something about set pieces?
I have commented on it on another thread but we really should be looking for an alternative to Gross on all set pieces. I find it hard to believe nobody else could do better, they’d certainly struggle to do worse
Given how RDZ has us playing such great passing football and is fanatical about it. Why hasn’t he taken time out to do something about set pieces?
Bob!
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- Jul 5, 2003
- 11,141
Just a modern day Kit Napier
I do agree, but Gross must have been told to aim for the near post.
I’d like to see Pervis on the right and perhaps Adingra (based on yesterday’s team) on the left, and just drill flat and hard, none of this floated nonsense.
If you look at the stats you might as well not bother and go straight to the goal kick.
Bring back Kit Napier.
Scored direct vs Barrow in my first ever game.
I assumed that sort of thing happened every week.
Like with so many things in my life, how disappointed was I to become.
John1066
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- May 13, 2019
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A near post corner is fine, just as long as you have a player who can flick the ball on to the likes of Dunk. This train of players all jostling around the centre of the goal doesn’t work for us
For those watching, the first Liverpool goal today was a perfect example of this. Van Dijk wins the header near post and flicks it on for an unmarked Diaz to score from about 5 yards out. Unlike Dunk, however, he didn’t have to start from half a mile away to reach it to flick on.
Gross is great, to say otherwise is blasphemous
However . . . he can't do everything, and clearly running from side to side repeatedly after 80+ minutes is just stupiditiy in spades.
It does scream lack of diversity from a coaching point of view
maybe no one else can kick a ball that well? Which would be a major concern,
US Seagull
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Stealing a livingAnd we have a guy who’s literal full time job is ‘set piece coach’
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Or Paul Watson