Corners,set pieces & crosses...

[marcus]

We need to be more of a threat from dead ball scenarios than we currently are...

Corners we rarely score from them & don't seem to have any plan, set pieces are the same ...

Crosses were put in yesterday but there was nobody on the end of them most times, the best cross was put in by Gomes late in the game & was low & hard, a tactic we should use more as there is not much height between Bernard,Richarlison & Walcott...

Lots of goals come from set pieces so come on Marco let's see an improvement there...

 

[Eggs]

....we do need to exploit the threat from Mina, it’ll be a waste if we don’t.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Personally I think we should play a striker, then these the attacking side will take care of itself

 

[sageyefc]

Just aim for minas head

 

[EverBlue92]

I think its worth Silva practising attacking set pieces much more in training (I wiuld hazard a guess we do very little of this).

Against Liverpool we will rely quite a bit on set pieces for much of the game attacking wise you would imagine and to not deliver dangerous balls into the box is criminal.

Same against Chelsea - one decent header in the box and we come away from Stamford bridge with 3 points.

 

[Flynnthistle]

This will all be part of the ongoing process.

We had a real weakness in defending set pieces which Silva has addressed to great effect and the zonal marking, which I'm not a fan of, has actually been very effective in doing so. This will have taken extensive coaching and a vast amount of time/training.

I'd expect now that we are far more comfortable defensively you'll see far more variation and effective set pieces in the near future.

 

[Lanolin]

I actually think we’ve looked decent from set pieces but people just keep missing. The delivery and movement have been ok but people just aren’t converting when they should be.

 

[Saint Domingo]

We seemed to have improved Ed defending set pieces at least. Keane and Zouma have all had numerous chances from set pieces but aren’t getting their headers on target.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

We need to be more of a threat from dead ball scenarios than we currently are...

Corners we rarely score from them & don't seem to have any plan, set pieces are the same ...

Crosses were put in yesterday but there was nobody on the end of them most times, the best cross was put in by Gomes late in the game & was low & hard, a tactic we should use more as there is not much height between Bernard,Richarlison & Walcott...

Lots of goals come from set pieces so come on Marco let's see an improvement there...

We've scored a few from set-pieces this season, but corners are the disappointment for me. Surely though, it's just a matter of time.

 

[mrb85]

I suspect we're the only team in the top half not to have scored from a corner this season so far.

 

[Osamabindiesel]

I wouldn’t be surprised if set pieces are the area we practice the least.

 

[marcus]

This will all be part of the ongoing process.

We had a real weakness in defending set pieces which Silva has addressed to great effect and the zonal marking, which I'm not a fan of, has actually been very effective in doing so. This will have taken extensive coaching and a vast amount of time/training.

I'd expect now that we are far more comfortable defensively you'll see far more variation and effective set pieces in the near future.

Agreed defensively we are looking better, so let's hope the attacking part gets better too...

 

[ijjysmith]

Not many teams are actually good at set pieces these days.

 

[Jimishorts]

We’ve definitely improved our defending from where we were at the start of the season, at least we don’t look like conceding from every corner and half decent cross.

Remember this
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/defending-set-pieces.104856/

Hopefully we can make the same improvements from our attacking corners. Mina and Keane should be dominant in both boxes.

 

[marcus]

Not many teams are actually good at set pieces these days.

This maybe true, but vital goals can be scored & the significance can not be ignored...