http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2014-15/mar/260315-talking-tactics-adrian-clarke-on-set-piece-specialists.htmlThere you go - a whopping 3% of corners result in a goal. People just remember the goals, but not the millions of times good deliveries get easily cleared away. I doubt anything's changed dramatically since this was written in March to say that it's suddenly much more than 3%.Let's not allow facts to get in the way of a whinge though.
Quote from: passitsideways on September 13, 2015, 06:44:13 PMhttp://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2014-15/mar/260315-talking-tactics-adrian-clarke-on-set-piece-specialists.htmlThere you go - a whopping 3% of corners result in a goal. People just remember the goals, but not the millions of times good deliveries get easily cleared away. I doubt anything's changed dramatically since this was written in March to say that it's suddenly much more than 3%.Let's not allow facts to get in the way of a whinge though.I did say set pieces but nevermind. If you think they don't matter you must be Tim Sherwood.
Quote from: aj2k77 on September 13, 2015, 06:47:22 PMQuote from: passitsideways on September 13, 2015, 06:44:13 PMhttp://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2014-15/mar/260315-talking-tactics-adrian-clarke-on-set-piece-specialists.htmlThere you go - a whopping 3% of corners result in a goal. People just remember the goals, but not the millions of times good deliveries get easily cleared away. I doubt anything's changed dramatically since this was written in March to say that it's suddenly much more than 3%.Let's not allow facts to get in the way of a whinge though.I did say set pieces but nevermind. If you think they don't matter you must be Tim Sherwood.Why would set pieces be substantially higher than corners? Some of them come from more dangerous areas; others don't.I never said that they didn't matter outright. Just that the probability of scoring from them is low enough that it's not worth having an aneurysm when the delivery isn't great. We've already scored twice off them this season despite all that anyway - so why the fuck are we moaning about it?
Quote from: passitsideways on September 13, 2015, 06:50:34 PMQuote from: aj2k77 on September 13, 2015, 06:47:22 PMQuote from: passitsideways on September 13, 2015, 06:44:13 PMhttp://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2014-15/mar/260315-talking-tactics-adrian-clarke-on-set-piece-specialists.htmlThere you go - a whopping 3% of corners result in a goal. People just remember the goals, but not the millions of times good deliveries get easily cleared away. I doubt anything's changed dramatically since this was written in March to say that it's suddenly much more than 3%.Let's not allow facts to get in the way of a whinge though.I did say set pieces but nevermind. If you think they don't matter you must be Tim Sherwood.Why would set pieces be substantially higher than corners? Some of them come from more dangerous areas; others don't.I never said that they didn't matter outright. Just that the probability of scoring from them is low enough that it's not worth having an aneurysm when the delivery isn't great. We've already scored twice off them this season despite all that anyway - so why the fuck are we moaning about it?What's probability of scoring from a cross?The proabability of scoring from a passed assist?Both low as whole, should we stop passing and crossing as well? The percentage of goals from set pieces are between 20-30% for most decent teams, ours when I last looked was 8%. That's a huge part of the game that we are poor at and don't exploit.
No, can't accept Westwood at all. Never have. He's tidy enough, but what does he actually do? Very rarely scores, doesn't pass incisively enough, has little pace.A boring, run of the mill player who I can't believe was given a new contract. Crap.
He was even shite in the 1st half today when we generally played well. Apart from him and Bacuna .
Quote from: silhillvilla on September 13, 2015, 08:31:38 PMHe was even shite in the 1st half today when we generally played well. Apart from him and Bacuna . Rubbish. Total, reactionary nonsense.