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I think you're probably right. His style is complicated and must take a huge amount of drilling. With a new batch of players to 'bring inside his idea' and teach his 'tactical disposition' he currently won't have the time to focus on set pieces, yet. But fingers crossed we get to keep him for...

You'd think so, but when you consider we take about 250 corners per season, 0.8% actually works out as 2 goals. Statistically each premier league goal is worth a point, so that 0.8% could be the difference between relegation and survival or European football and mid table mediocrity.

This is the Opta definition. 'Set Piece goals/attempts are those where the ball starts from a dead ball situation such as a corner, a free kick, a penalty or a Throw-in and results in a shot before the phase of play has broken down into open play.' They are refering to the attacking phase of...

Why not? If neither a goal nor a shot came from it then it's not as effective as a cross directly into the box, from which a shot and or a goal was created, and should be measured as such.

Agreed, Pascal's stats may be scewed by short corners, however he was second only to Kieran Trippier for xAG (Expected Assisted Goals) directly from corners last season. Trippier had an xAG of 4.8, Gross was second on 3.0. So he must be doing something right. However, the short corners we...

Despite our shocking set piece performance last season, nothing has improved. So, Why are we the worst in the Premier League at set pieces? Let me start by acknowledging that we are currently the League's top scorers from open play this season. So this isn't a complaint, just a genuine enquiry...