KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum If only we were better at corners

I'm not saying I think we are brilliant at set pieces. And I don't say we can't improve more. But we have actually improved much since last year, and we are currently the second best team at it.

Have a look at this:

1 Tottenham 10
2 Liverpool 9
3 Brighton 8
4 Manchester United 7
5 Burnley 7
6 Arsenal 6
7 Bournemouth 6
8 Huddersfield 6
9 Manchester City 5
10 Chelsea 5
11 Everton 5
12 Cardiff 5
13 Watford 4
14 West Ham 3
15 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3
16 Newcastle United 3
17 Southampton 3
18 Leicester 2
19 Crystal Palace 2
20 Fulham 1

Source: https://www.whoscored.com/Regions/252/To...eague-2018-2019

Doesn’t matter how the goals come as long as they come. I’m also not sure how getting and scoring from a corner is less work? You have to work to get the corner in the first place don’t you?

Yes it would’ve nice and is an area where we could improve. But as Herc said earlier, there ain’t that many goals from corners anymore. Defenders are much better at them now so is much harder to score than they were.

Defenders are good at man marking stationery figures, there is no choreography to our corner kicks. Our players jostle on the same spot with opposing defenders, normally around pen spot, corner kick is taken and if it makes it past the first man on the post, Goalkeeper gets it or defender clears it.

Would it not be worth throwing the odd curve ball in there?
Take for instance England in last World Cup when the players lined up one behind the other causing confusion for rival defenders and Goalkeeper, when kick is taken players separate in different directions with one or two concentrating on the incoming ball, whilst the rival defenders are wandering where everybody else is going. OR maybe the likes of VVD, Matip, Fabinho etc... preferably our taller players making a run from outside the area to a spot prearranged in the area with the corner taker to where he'll flight the ball to. It's not exactly rocket science but something different none the less.

As I said: We're almost top of the league in that department.

Room for improvement though? Yes.

You beat me to it. Great post.

This is from set pieces, not only corners and the right statistics is the percentage of goals we score from corners won, which is quite low as shown in another post.

That's the point, we are already working hard to get the corners but not scoring enough from them, then we have to work even harder to score in addition. I am not saying we have to get less corners but rather take advantage of corners we win.

We are working no harder to get corners and then not score from them than we would if we scored from them. I’m not sure how we can be?

Perhaps we need Achterberg to have a crack at coaching us for corners?

We do press less and reduce intensity after we score, and the bus parking of the opponents reduces as well.