Beating the first man...

[Buzzer77]

This is becoming a real bugbare of mine, but I cannot understand the amount of times we do not beat the first man at a corner. I'm sure it must have something to do with how precise the corner kick needs to be but I'm sure that about 70% of the corners we take are cleared by the first man.

Surely this must be practiced religiously?

 

[Blumers Bloomers]

When Vinny scored v West Brom first game of the season I actually thought that was an end to us being crap at corners. False dawn.

 

[kaz7]

We took better corners under bobby

 

[RandomJ]

Not as much as I hate our out-swinging corners. A defenders dream as it's always going away from goal.

 

[onceabluealways]

I bet we've scored as many corners as other sides this year, we've had a few to be fair.

 

[Buzzer77]

Not as much as I hate our out-swinging corners. A defenders dream as it's always going away from goal.

I was just about to add that. Completely useless for people to attack. I'm sure we are one of the tallest teams in the premier league so potentially a huge threat from corners.

 

[1961_vintage]

Our primary aim when we win a corner is not to concede.

 

[Champions2012!]

Would not want to see our corner statistics

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Simple kdb in swing from the left and silva/kolarov to inswing from the right for some reason though we prefer the out swinger of navas and silva! Though we have scored a few from set plays I'd like to see more variety! I don't think we ever practice them for or against!

 

[GornikDaze]

This is becoming a real bugbare of mine, but I cannot understand the amount of times we do not beat the first man at a corner. I'm sure it must have something to do with how precise the corner kick needs to be but I'm sure that about 70% of the corners we take are cleared by the first man.

Surely this must be practiced religiously?

You don't sit in CB 132 do you?