corners !

[Tim of the Oak]

I think The Engineer has been overthinking the corners.

Even Every Sunday league player knows that the in swinger is usually the better option in windy conditions. Out tactics need to adpt to the playing conditions.

 

[GoMancini7]

It seems like our corner plan is 90% of the time to cross it to Demichelis head and he either will hea it in or just touch the ball with his head as a pass and someone in the middle will react. Actually this worked a few times but him heading the ball into the net not really.
Of course we are talking about that 2-3% of the times, when it beats the first man. Navas ability to take corners is not good. Also we should have people standing and wainting where the ball possibl will be when their first man heads it out unless its a corner again.

But look at the second balls and they end up at opponent players many times. Way too many times.

I would use small corners, with the skills we have Zaba/Silva overlapping, small one-twos, actually we could get into good crossing position maybe even inside the box, that could more more dangerous than crossing it to Demichelis head. He is good in the air but not a Crouch. Or sign Crouch. And maybe this system would work wonders...

 

[ello_jo]

I'd like to see kolarov take a few, I know he's a presence in the box or on the edge but if he whipped a cross in from a corner with pace anywhere near his free kicks the opposition would shit it. Navas/silva/nasri all have a tendancy to float them and it gives teams time to position themselves. Even Milner has a quality corner on him.

Bring back elano.

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

I'd like to see kolarov take a few, I know he's a presence in the box or on the edge but if he whipped a cross in from a corner with pace anywhere near his free kicks the opposition would shit it. Navas/silva/nasri all have a tendancy to float them and it gives teams time to position themselves. Even Milner has a quality corner on him.

Bring back elano.

Kolarov would be looking to score direct at least 80% of the time.

 

[ello_jo]

I'd like to see kolarov take a few, I know he's a presence in the box or on the edge but if he whipped a cross in from a corner with pace anywhere near his free kicks the opposition would shit it. Navas/silva/nasri all have a tendancy to float them and it gives teams time to position themselves. Even Milner has a quality corner on him.

Bring back elano.

Kolarov would be looking to score direct at least 80% of the time.

Would definitely get closer to the net than they do now 100% of the time

 

[teddykgb]

People are making too much of this, we've been targeting the near post area for MD flick ons (which have been surprisingly successful) and have also targeted Kompany at the near post as well on a bunch of these. It's not surprising that we're not beating the first man when we're targeting short areas. I find it hard to blame Navas for this, plus literally EVERY team's fans think their team sucks at corners.

 

[bluemanc1994]

Kolarov would be the best for taking them. Our best striker of a dead ball really. He's in the area for them to add height but he never really looks like scoring from the rare corners that actually beat the first man anyway. Navas and Silva are both as bad as each other when taking them - never beat the first man and not a great deal of pace on them either making them easy to defend against. Annoys me how nobody else, other than the fans, can see how bad we are from corners. If needs be, take short corners. They can't be as bad as what we currently do!

 

[Len Rum]

As a previous poster said our corners taking has been poor for years. And to corners you can add free kicks and throw ins as well

 

[Burtonblue]

Too many (actually they all are) out swingers.
Defenders always seem to know precisely where the ball is going to be every time! It's all to easy .
Why oh why can't we mix it up and see some badass inswingers from time to time?

 

[tommybooth]

We have always been shit at corners. Apart from the Kevin Reeves flick on era. That only lasted a bit before teams sussed it out.