Omar Marmoush

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domalino said:
Whatever your personal opinions, it's a statistical fact across football that short corners lead to more goals than direct corners, so we're gonna keep taking them.

Short corners lead to 5% more goals than direct corners and 10% more shots on target

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Only if taken quickly.
 
According to SSN Marmoush is having his medical in Manchester this afternoon, guessing he will be announced by tomorrow. Just get Cambiaso in now playing the Lahm role and we're good to go hopefully. Saying that I've never really seen any of our new recruits play so I'm trusting the management, hopefully better than the Phillips and Nunes acquisitions.
 
domalino said:
Whatever your personal opinions, it's a statistical fact across football that short corners lead to more goals than direct corners, so we're gonna keep taking them.

Short corners lead to 5% more goals than direct corners and 10% more shots on target

sqaf.club

How Many Goals are Scored from Corners?

This statistical breakdown breaks down the corners to goals ratio, showing you the key corner stats and how often teams score from corners.
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With all due respect to the maths... fuck statistics when it comes to their relevance in how footbal should actually be played.

Rubbish to probablity... it means fuck all. If say 9 out of 10 short corners statistically speaking result in a goal... and you're in a position where you are in dire need of a goal and you've taken 9 straight short corners that have ended in nowt... you're going to take another because probability says the next one goes in? If you toss a coin twice just because the probability is 50% you could still get 10 tails in a row.

I get modern culture has sort of Pavloved us into knee jerk laying down this months mortgage on anthing that looks like a bet we shouldn't pass up based on probability/ stats but stats do not beat out trends... and in today's football packing the box and inciting chaos around the keeper whilst a ball comes in toward him is what has been scoring goals of late. (see precedent A. Chelsea v. Wolves Doherty minute 45+5 20.01.2025). I for one am all for lining up a technician capable of delivering the ball exactly where he wants to vs lining up a player on the corner and another close by which takes our numerical advantage in the box away and totally removes any question as to where the first ball is going.

We do not for whatever reason have that and if KDB can't and Gundo can't (our two best technicians on ball pin point delivery/ set pieces) then line the new kid up.
 
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Zenmanc said:
I for one am all for lining up a technician capable of delivering the ball exactly where he wants to vs lining up a player on the corner and another close by which takes our numerical advantage in the box away and totally removes any question as to where the first ball is going.
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If you want to forgo statistics and jsut go by feels thats fine, but if you go down that route your assumption must be that the greatest coach of his generation (plus all his assistants and players some of whom have gone on to be top class successful coaches themselves) that spend hundreds of hours cumulatively studying the opposition before every game are incapable of thinking "lets just take a corner".

Do you really think that? To me it's much more likely that they've analysed each and every way to take a corner 100 times over and have arrived at the conclusion that the statistics back up. Short corners are more likely to lead to goals, so we take a lot of short corners.
 
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