It's very strange isn't it.
Using a bit of Sports psychology here, personally, I'd ask one of our players to stand somewhere just beyond the near post, not even move, and tell Eriksen to imagine the top of his head is the top corner of the goal, and to have a "shot" at it.
Amazing.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
An alternative would be to buy a player called "Postage Stamp" and put him in the middle for corners.
Its easier to take a free kick than a corner, as at some stadiums you have take a corner up hill as the pitch tends to be raised at some places, this is apparent at old trafford and WHL. This makes it harder to get your foot under the ball....seems totally at odds with his crap corner taking.
How can this be?
...seems totally at odds with his crap corner taking.
How can this be?
Its easier to take a free kick than a corner, as at some stadiums you have take a corner up hill as the pitch tends to be raised at some places, this is apparent at old trafford and WHL. This makes it harder to get your foot under the ball.
Also the area around the pitch tends to be astroturf so it makes it harder for the player to do a natural movement when they move from one surface to another as they are kicking.
Just because you think that, doesnt mean its trueThen how come everyone else's corners seem to be great at WHL ?
How can they get their heads to the crosses when most of the time it only reaches the first defender or is over hit above all? The corners are poor, don't blame the other players for his poor crosses.To be honest, regardless of where we cross the ball none of our boys get a head on it anyway. I've watched countless corners go in the box over the years, some good, alot bad. We never get our head on any of them.
With freekicks it's just him, the wall and the keeper. With corners you are relying on the other men to actually do something when you put it in there. His corners are pretty poor but no one gets a head on them anyway so who cares. I don't even get mildly optimistic at the sight of a corner and haven't done for years lol
Pretty sure we've scored a number of goals directly from corners this season. Kane and Vlad 100% definitely have.