Corners

[HantsSeagull]

why are we so crap?

 

[timbha]

cos Lopez hadn't worked out that Zigic is 6ft 8

 

[HantsSeagull]

cos Lopez hadn't worked out that Zigic is 6ft 8

its been the same all season and all last season - can't hit a brighton player for love nor money

 

[upthealbion1970]

Conways corners were much better

 

[RexCathedra]

Set-pieces have been BHA's Achilles heel since approximately when Noah shut the door on the Ark.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Does any club have a good conversion rate of corners/chances/goals? I'd be interested to see the stats. I reckon they are very low globally.

 

[dougdeep]

why are we so crap?

I've been asking that for 50 years.

 

[RexCathedra]

BoF, your intuition is sound.

More statto madness on the goal value of corners than you've got weekend left to read and digest, here.

The goal value of any given corner is pretty much nil.

"The yield from corners ranges from 0 to .07. On average, the data show that a corner is good for (drumroll ....) 0.022 goals. This means that the average EPL team scores 1 goal from a corner about every 10 games.'

 

[Barrel of Fun]

BoF, your intuition is sound.

More statto madness on the goal value of corners than you've got weekend left to read and digest, here.

The goal value of any given corner is pretty much nil.

"The yield from corners ranges from 0 to .07. On average, the data show that a corner is good for (drumroll ....) 0.022 goals. This means that the average EPL team scores 1 goal from a corner about every 10 games.'

Nice find. Just as I suspected. We'd be better off punting it back to the Pole (or the Slovak).

 

[Blackadder]

We have NEVER been good at corners. Even under Mullery, when we used to score 4 or 5 goals a game for fun, we tried short corners, and I don't recall scoring from any of them!

 

[RexCathedra]

There's a revolution coming to soccer/football. Because most everything we know is wrong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/s...eking-truth-in-statistics-of-soccer.html?_r=0

When he first arrived in England with Chelsea, Manager José Mourinho said: “How many countries can you think of where a corner kick is treated with the same applause as a goal? One. It only happens in England.”

I iived through the sabermetric revolution in baseball. Eventually things change, because the need to win never changes.

 

[TheJasperCo]

Ideally if we could get more shots in the back of the net, we wouldn't need to take any corners full stop.

 

[tigertim68]

why are we so crap?

because lopez can cross the ball for toffee

 

[clippedgull]

The best corner belonged to Birmingham though, when he passed the ball straight to one of our players

 

[Barrel of Fun]

In the Premier League today...

I think it was 1 or 2 goals from a total of 86 corners.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Didn't Upson score the winner at Middlesbrough from a corner?

 

[jackcgull]

i am sure i read/heard somewhere that more goals are conceded thanks to a clearance and counter attack than are actually scored

 

[JOLovegrove]

Didn't Upson get back to back goals from corners this season? Barnsley/Boro? Or was the Barnsley one form a free-kick? (Wasn't at the match)

 

[bWize]

why are we so crap?

We have been for at-least 3 seasons now... Needs looking at

 

[dougdeep]

because lopez can cross the ball for toffee

I didn't think he could.