I couldn’t find anywhere that shows the actual number of goals we scored directly from a corner, but I don’t remember us scoring from them a lot and this stat is just from the PL and isn’t all competitions. I found that we had 18 corners against Madrid to their 1 in our CL loss to them. Is the corner set piece coach the same as our free kick set piece coach? I know we’ve scored quite a few goals from free kicks, but we haven’t been able to replicate the same success from our corners despite having multiple players over 6’1”. To contrast, I believe Arsenal have scored a lot more corners than we have from what I remember since there are no websites that show this statistic as far as I know.

by MasterRaheem

6 comments

  1. Corners are a very low probability situation. When you try to score from them directly you’ll face a dangerous counter more often than getting a shot on goal. So it is statistically better to treat them like a throw in and keep possession. And that is what we do a lot. Also the more you do that, the easier it gets to convert the ones you actually try to score from. Because the opponent had to adapt to you keeping possession instead of crossing it into the box.

  3. There has been a change this season. We used to score quite a few.

    Now we put everything front post and crowd the keeper, not only does it not work it’s so painful to watch it hit the first man on repeat.

  4. Guardiola waa never a set piece guy even prime Barca didn’t score corners or free kick crosses

  5. I think Ake is immense at headers. Stones too. I don’t have the stats on them but it just feels like they are the dangerous ones.

    But for whatever reason Erling isn’t that good at them (yet?, ever?).

    City sometimes are guilty of trying to walk the ball into goal, and I have a feeling Pep is more worried about what could go wrong (lethal counters) on corners.

  6. Feels like 90% of the time corners find the opponent’s head

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