it seemed on TV like last night COl U only put ONE defender on the two at the corner flag. In normal circs, the oppo puts two defendfers on the two attackers taking the corner. This draws an extra defender out of the box and makes a deep corner more effective potentially.
faced with only one defender you would fancy our chances of taking it short and getting past him (although this didnt seem to happen last night, that is the "point" of the short corners)