100 corners, no goals. Edit: 140 corners, 1 goal. 152 corners, 2 goals.

My take is we have two corner routines. Short corner, then look for Maguire at the back post. Attempting near post which gets blocked by the first defender. We hired a specialist coach for deadballs for that? The coach needs to be sacked.
 
The only way we reach the goalie from our corners is by giving it back to De Gea.

I cannot believe we practice corners at all
 
Honestly, I think it's better if all our corners are goal kicks instead. They represent more danger to us than to the other team.
 
Surely with the hundreds of millions of pounds of attacking talent, if you cross the ball into the box 125 times you'd expect to at least score once. Our XG from corners is probably negative now considering how susceptible to the counter attack we look from them...
 
Apart from what appears to go on or not as is more realistic, the quality of delivery is very poor. If it was being out in a particular apot with frequency you might say ye that was the idea with that one but I just don't see it. Bruno is v good from free kicks, seems totally opposite with corners, makes no sense.
 
Maguire always seems to win the ball in corners but always is off target.
 
A conversion rate of 0.007% on corners. :lol: That actually feels worse than 0%.

Seriously, we should just tell the GK to take a goal kick instead and waive the corner. We probably score more goals from opponent goal kicks.
 
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Lets hope we can get a couple more this season. If we fix this then it will be like a new weapon for us next season.
 
I don't know for sure but I think the general conversion rate from corners in the PL is quite low and IIRC 1 in 30? We're still far away from it but it's not like we can expect a goal every other corner.
 
Rightnr said:
I don't know for sure but I think the general conversion rate from corners in the PL is quite low and IIRC 1 in 30? We're still far away from it but it's not like we can expect a goal every other corner.
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Agree. Not seen the stats but I bet the corner conversions are significantly lower than they used to be 20-30 years ago.

We just don’t have those big bruising tank defenders coming in late to bulldoze a header in. Tend to be just ball playing centre backs where heading isn’t there key strength.
 
Rightnr said:
I don't know for sure but I think the general conversion rate from corners in the PL is quite low and IIRC 1 in 30? We're still far away from it but it's not like we can expect a goal every other corner.
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This stats from a couple of months ago:

West Ham and Wolves scored 7.8% of corners this season.

Arsenal 7%.

Liverpool and Chelsea 5.8%.

Yes these are the better teams, but your 3.3% figure seems totally inaccurate.
 
IrishRedDevil said:
This stats from a couple of months ago:

West Ham and Wolves scored 7.8% of corners this season.

Arsenal 7%.

Liverpool and Chelsea 5.8%.

Yes these are the better teams, but your 0.033% figure seems totally inaccurate.
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I'm sorry to tell you this but 1 in 30 is 3.33%.
 
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Agree. Not seen the stats but I bet the corner conversions are significantly lower than they used to be 20-30 years ago.
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Not true. More goals are scored from corners and set pieces in the modern game. The best teams score from almost 8% of corners, with an average of circa 5%. 20 years ago the average was 2.5%.
 
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Rightnr said:
I don't know for sure but I think the general conversion rate from corners in the PL is quite low and IIRC 1 in 30? We're still far away from it but it's not like we can expect a goal every other corner.
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A stat I just saw mentioned in passing in the athletic is that around 2% of corners lead to goals so yep the average conversion rate seems to be low.

I'm not sure how big the spread on that is though. As in should the best coached teams at the highest level expect to put in a multiple of that as @IrishRedDevil suggests. Or what games that 2% figure comes from (i.e. what levels of football are included and how many seasons back).
 
2 goals from corners! Absolutely brilliant! Next statue outside of OT should be Phil Jones next to a corner flag doing his special face expression.
 
IrishRedDevil said:
Not true. More goals are scored from corners and set pieces in the modern game. The best teams score from almost 8% of corners, with an average of circa 5%. 20 years ago the average was 2.5%.
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Blimey, that is surprising!
 
We must be close to breaking this record again, surely? We might as well just roll the ball back to the opposition when we get a corner, we hardly ever take advantage of them, we must be amongst the worst when it comes to corners (and free kicks?) in the league?
 
It is amateuristic, what do they do in training?
 
We concede more goals from our corners than we score. We would be better off just passing them straight out for a goal kick and regrouping.
 
Barnslig said:
We must be close to breaking this record again, surely? We might as well just roll the ball back to the opposition when we get a corner, we hardly ever take advantage of them, we must be amongst the worst when it comes to corners (and free kicks?) in the league?
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We are terrible at free kicks as we don't have one person consistently taking them.

Players seem to take turns do one each throughout the game and if their first attempt is a sighter too bad they won't get the next one anyone

I just think it would be better to have one person ideally Eriksen.

Shaw seems the best at taking corners to me but we just don't attack well enough in the box
 
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