Sigh ....... no matter how many times this is explained, some people just can't or won't get it.
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[Albion] Two players taking the same corner?
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Sigh ....... no matter how many times this is explained, some people just can't or won't get it.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Sigh....... the exact same effect could be achieved without voluntarily removing one of our players from the field of play - where he serves absolutely no useful purpose
It leaves some space on the pitch to get the ball back to Sanchez a bit quicker, so we can build from the back, properly. It's not a proper goal if its just wham bam.
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...... where he is perfectly placed for a short corner, which has to be guarded against by a defender out of the box. As I said, some people can't or won't .................................
Gazwag
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To be fair looking at a game from the top of the West Stand, however many feet high that is, if very different from looking at it from 6 feet in the air which is the defending teams view
SittingbourneSeagull
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Not too worried about having 2 players over the kick, what did bother me last night was the fact that every corner was straight at their keeper even after he demonstrated that he could easily deal with them.
I guess the world is made up of two kinds of people: those who think it's a stroke of tactical genius to voluntarily reduce your team to ten men at set pieces and those other, less special people
Two kinds of people indeed - those who think that Pep Guardiola, Graham Potter, Sarri etc. know something about football and those who think that you do.
hampshirebrightonboy
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One of the reasons I was looking forward to Mac Allister playing was his delivery from set pieces. On his debut (Wolves away) pretty much the first thing he did was to take an excellent and very dangerous looking free kick. Have not been particularly impressed with Gross's free kicks this season.
Why the flying fvck does Mac Allister not at least take a few of them.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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That's a bit unfair. Some didn't make it past the first defender
You really ar a patronising **** a lot of the time.
TWOCHOICEStom
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The annoying thing is that with our aerial presence we might have scored more goals if they'd have just floated the bloody thing towards the penalty spot.
Unlike the quote I replied to?
No, that was sarcastic.
TBH putting Potter in the same sentence as Sarri and Guardiola is quite funny, so I'll give you that.
TWOCHOICEStom
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The other thing whilst I'm here is that the whole reason for this strategy is driven by the idea of putting the opposition at a disadvantage. But that disadvantage only materialises if the deliveries are good, the defence stupid, the keeper crap and the attackers know where the goal is...
We don't have any of what we need to pull it off. So we just end up taking Solly/Gross/Mac out of play for the second balls or inevitable counter attacks which have repeatedly come.
Nobody else does it. And nobody else does it for a reason. It's not worth the risk.
We don't have any of what we need to pull it off. So we just end up taking Solly/Gross/Mac out of play for the second balls or inevitable counter attacks which have repeatedly come.
Nobody else does it. And nobody else does it for a reason. It's not worth the risk.
No, that was sarcastic.
TBH putting Potter in the same sentence as Sarri and Guardiola is quite funny, so I'll give you that.
Is it automatically not patronising if its sarcastic?
Glad you got entertained. Personally I think its entertaining that you are trying to be clever while really being dumb as a rock.
It amazes me that giraffes can't get their heads over the ball. If you got points for heading over the bar we'd be in a CL spot.
um bongo molongo
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Given that the bloke who painstakingly places the ball ALWAYS takes it, we’re hardly masters of suspicion either
Uh_huh_him
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I was thinking exactly that when the camera panned to Trossard and March. Leo placed the ball and signalled to the players in the box. Whilst Solly waited just off camera.
hmmmmm great subterfuge!
Arthritic Toe
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There's another way to get a defender out of the box? - please explain.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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You've not watched much football then? Allow me to explain. Player trots over towards corner-taker. Pulls defender with him. Corner-taker then has option of short or long corner. At no point does team voluntarily reduce itself to ten men. Simple enough for you?
