Corners

I know we laugh and joke about how bad they are but when it gets to a situation where I actually worry more about conceding than scoring, the jokes have to stop.
For a professional club the lack of care and attention is a disgrace. No creativity, no movement, just the same players in the same positions waiting for the same delivery.
They are our season in a nutshell.
 
Much as we can blame FFP & the Spaniard with the cheque book for our poor overall performance this season, the set piece situation is purely down to poor management band coaching.

If we're hamstrung by FFP we need to be putting so much more effort into corners, free kicks and our fuckng awful throw-Ins.
 
Last night Silva put two right onto the penalty spot and not a single City player was within five yards of it. They were great balls in, ideal for anyone to score against Barca (that is their one weakness), yet i honestly don't think there are any "set" plays that we do so nobody actually knows what kind of cross is going to come in at any time. I watch other sides and corners are contested very well indeed, even if a defence heads it away the attackers know exactly where a cross is coming to and contest the headers well. We are NOWHERE near these crosses.
 
bitsmith said:
They had 2-3 counters from our corners and one was almost a goal. It's just shocking.
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Stoke and Chelsea both scored at the Etihad in the same situations this season. That means we've conceded more goals from our own corners this season than we've scored ourselves!
 
I used to find it a little bit funny that we are so wank at corners but it really is actually pathetic. The amount of time off between games we've had the past month or so you would think we'd be going over them all day every day.

A couple of goals from corners this season and who knows what difference it would of made
 
BringBackSwales said:
How many since we last scored from one?
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266

It might be hilarous for others to think if you just took corners constantly (let the corner play out, retrieve the ball and go and take another one) then that's probably over 2 hours of just taking corners, without a single goal.

It's beyond being beyond a joke.
 
Chippy_boy said:
BringBackSwales said:
How many since we last scored from one?
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266

It might be hilarous for others to think if you just took corners constantly (let the corner play out, retrieve the ball and go and take another one) then that's probably over 2 hours of just taking corners, without a single goal.

It's beyond being beyond a joke.
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Apparently the average conversion rate is about 3%. So we're about 6 goals below average.
 
Musampa 209 said:
I used to find it a little bit funny that we are so wank at corners but it really is actually pathetic. The amount of time off between games we've had the past month or so you would think we'd be going over them all day every day.

A couple of goals from corners this season and who knows what difference it would of made
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I think they practise corners at the same training sessions that they work on defensive organisation and high intensity pressing.
 
cibaman said:
Chippy_boy said:
BringBackSwales said:
How many since we last scored from one?
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266

It might be hilarous for others to think if you just took corners constantly (let the corner play out, retrieve the ball and go and take another one) then that's probably over 2 hours of just taking corners, without a single goal.

It's beyond being beyond a joke.
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Apparently the average conversion rate is about 3%. So we're about 6 goals below average.
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Or to put it another way, the average club scores on average 1 goal in every 33 corners.

So we are soon approaching being 10x worse than average. How inspiring.
 
Lancet Fluke said:
Musampa 209 said:
I used to find it a little bit funny that we are so wank at corners but it really is actually pathetic. The amount of time off between games we've had the past month or so you would think we'd be going over them all day every day.

A couple of goals from corners this season and who knows what difference it would of made
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I think they practise corners at the same training sessions that they work on defensive organisation and high intensity pressing.
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...and free kicks - a few of those routines have been shockers this seaon
 
TheWookie said:
Lancet Fluke said:
Musampa 209 said:
I used to find it a little bit funny that we are so wank at corners but it really is actually pathetic. The amount of time off between games we've had the past month or so you would think we'd be going over them all day every day.

A couple of goals from corners this season and who knows what difference it would of made
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I think they practise corners at the same training sessions that they work on defensive organisation and high intensity pressing.
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...and free kicks - a few of those routines have been shockers this seaon
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Remember middle of last season when Yaya was banging them in for fun with his freekicks just outside the box?

It's not a matter of not *scoring* from free kicks anymore, we just are getting enough! Our players have stopped committing defenders and now just pass it aimlessly around the box, and by and large our opponents are happy to watch. We need to be MUCH more direct and much faster in and around the box.

Look at this beauty, we need a few more of these:

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Interesting to note we won this free kick in the dying minutes of the game when we were playing with some intensity (finally).
 
It's actually only 263 corners since Demichelis scored in the 83rd minute from City's 3rd and last corner in the Arsenal v City game at the Emirates back in September:

A Bayern - 4
H Chelsea – 14 (18)
H Sheffield Wed (LC) – 7 (25)
A Hull – 8 (33)
H Roma – 7 (40)
A Villa – 7 (47)
H Spurs – 3 (50)
A CSKA – 4 (54)
A WHU – 8 (62)
H Newcastle Utd (LC) - 6 (68)
H Rags – 7 (75)
H CSKA – 6 (81)
A QPR - 7  (88)
H Swansea – 7 (95)
H Bayern – 6 (101)
A Southampton – 6 (107)
A Sunderland – 0 (107)
H Everton – 11 (118)
A Roma – 4 (122)
A Leicester – 2 (124)
H Crystal Palace – 8 (132)
A West Brom – 6 (138)
H Burnley – 10 (148)
H Sunderland – 10 (158)
H Sheffield Wednesday (FAC) – 10 (168)
A Everton – 9 (177)
H Arsenal – 16 (193)
H Middlesbrough (FAC) – 11 (204)
A Chelsea – 8 (212)
H Hull – 13 (225)
A Stoke – 2 (227)
H Newcastle – 7 (234)
H Barcelona – 8 (242)
A Liverpool – 0 (242)
H Leicester – 10 (252)
A Burnley – 6 (258)
A Barcelona – 5 (263)

(Subject to BBC corner counts in match reports being correct.)
 
BlueAnorak said:
It's actually only 263 corners since Demichelis scored in the 83rd minute from City's 3rd and last corner in the Arsenal v City game at the Emirates back in September:

A Bayern - 4
H Chelsea – 14 (18)
H Sheffield Wed (LC) – 7 (25)
A Hull – 8 (33)
H Roma – 7 (40)
A Villa – 7 (47)
H Spurs – 3 (50)
A CSKA – 4 (54)
A WHU – 8 (62)
H Newcastle Utd (LC) - 6 (68)
H Rags – 7 (75)
H CSKA – 6 (81)
A QPR - 7  (88)
H Swansea – 7 (95)
H Bayern – 6 (101)
A Southampton – 6 (107)
A Sunderland – 0 (107)
H Everton – 11 (118)
A Roma – 4 (122)
A Leicester – 2 (124)
H Crystal Palace – 8 (132)
A West Brom – 6 (138)
H Burnley – 10 (148)
H Sunderland – 10 (158)
H Sheffield Wednesday (FAC) – 10 (168)
A Everton – 9 (177)
H Arsenal – 16 (193)
H Middlesbrough (FAC) – 11 (204)
A Chelsea – 8 (212)
H Hull – 13 (225)
A Stoke – 2 (227)
H Newcastle – 7 (234)
H Barcelona – 8 (242)
A Liverpool – 0 (242)
H Leicester – 10 (252)
A Burnley – 6 (258)
A Barcelona – 5 (263)

(Subject to BBC corner counts in match reports being correct.)
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Think the discrepency depends on if you include the Hamburg friendly in Abu Dhabi or not.
 
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