npearl4spurs
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Love this. Think about how deflating it is for City to bring on Silva or Gabriel Jesus or Sane or De Bruyne I remember they did one time. Fresh quality in the last 15-20' wins matches
Player watch: Christian Eriksen
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Love this. Think about how deflating it is for City to bring on Silva or Gabriel Jesus or Sane or De Bruyne I remember they did one time. Fresh quality in the last 15-20' wins matches
Dude that was great lol.
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You know that you sound stupid trying to prove a non existing point dont you? Eriksen for all his talent was crap at taking corners, deal with it
SpartanSpur
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I just had a quick look at PL set piece stats. Eriksen leads the pack with assists from indirect free kicks in the last two seasons, but we are down on corners compared to others. Maybe the quick flat delivery from corners needs to be looked at?
Actually that's strange. I remember when he first came and in training, they had a sort of competition trying to hit the cross-bar from maybe 25 yards out, and he beat everyone hands down; and Poch was also very good at that.
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What non existing point?
He said he shouldn’t take set pieces anymore yet we were second in the league in set piece goals.
He then stated Eriksen is not capable of putting it past the first man. He has literally shown he is capable of that.
Sandros Shiny Head
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He’s welcome to keep taking crosses from free kicks but his corners and direct free kicks were pointless last season. Trippier scored as many directly as Eriksen with only a couple of attempts and nearly as many corner assists
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The problem with corners is that we fans mostly watches and analyses our own teams set pieces. I hear this from loads of my friends who supports other teams all the time. They always believe that their own team has the worst set piece statistic. The problem is that there are much fewer goals scored from free kicks and corners than what we fans believe. However since we fans watch endless of misdirected corners and free kick from our own specific team it's naturally perceived as that specific team is horrendous at set peices.
If I remember correctly Liverpool was clear number one and we were tied with second in place in goals from set pieces.
If I remember correctly Liverpool was clear number one and we were tied with second in place in goals from set pieces.
wrd
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Whilst I agree with your sentiment, Eriksen statistically had the worst corner success rate in the league:
Now I know people will defend it by saying we go for a difficult style of corner beating the first man if it does it's effective etc but that's no excuse for it being this bad and Trippier and Lamela have had significantly more success with their corners over recent seasons. It's an area Eriksen needs to improve for sure and I shouldn't have to add this but just in-case people get upset this is 1 very specific part of Eriksens game that I'm putting under scrutiny, doesn't mean I don't think he's a great player overall.
This, I never underatand the roar that goes up when teams win a corner. For ours it's an opportune time to make a quick cup of tea.
Clive Wilson
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Exactly haddock, something like 1% result in a goal. we don't watch Snodgrass take 100 though, we just see the one that goes in and therefore think he is amazing.
The flat low corner isn't taken because Eriksen can't take a corner that lands in a dangerous area it is because if you float a corner in to a dangerous area there is next to no chance of scoring from it, either the keeper or a defender cleans up. Taking them low and flat means a lot more look shit because its a difficult technique to be as accurate with but when they are good you cannot defend them. Same with direct free kicks. Obviously Eriksen could beat the wall and get almost every freekick he takes on target, in fact I could hit the target with most freekicks from inside 35 yards. Problem is I wouldn't score any as you don't get a point for just hitting the target, there is a 6ft 6 bastard waiting to spoil that. At least the fans would love me for not hitting the wall though!
The flat low corner isn't taken because Eriksen can't take a corner that lands in a dangerous area it is because if you float a corner in to a dangerous area there is next to no chance of scoring from it, either the keeper or a defender cleans up. Taking them low and flat means a lot more look shit because its a difficult technique to be as accurate with but when they are good you cannot defend them. Same with direct free kicks. Obviously Eriksen could beat the wall and get almost every freekick he takes on target, in fact I could hit the target with most freekicks from inside 35 yards. Problem is I wouldn't score any as you don't get a point for just hitting the target, there is a 6ft 6 bastard waiting to spoil that. At least the fans would love me for not hitting the wall though!
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Oh here we go with the corners and free kick bullshit again & with Sandros Shiny Head in front once again.. Ohh life is good isn’t it.
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That may be so but it does not work when it consistently goes to their first man like Eriksen does. And dont give me the spiel that it was his intent to keep them low and flat on purpose. Both Trippier and Lamela are more effective than Eriksen when it came to corner kicks, and they themselves were not the best when taking them. Blinkers off please.
Sandros Shiny Head
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I made a jokey comment about someone else taking set pieces next season if he stays and Eriksen’s defender in chief turned up right on cue to tell us all how amazing he is
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We all know you don’t like Eriksen.
Quiet funny when he is the the most creative player in the PL and plays for Spurs don’t you think.
Sandros Shiny Head
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This all started when I said I’d be happy if he signed a new contract
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People keep going on about corners and clearly have no knowledge of the statistical impact of corners in the history of the game. Still some people believe the Earth is flat so just let them babble on about how great everyone is at corners except us
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I think it's more that Eriksen statically doesn't beat the first man 2 every 3 corners he takes. It's not so much the goals scored or chances created, it's the fact 2 every 3 won't even make it near a dangerous white shirt.
Fine lines and all of that but as a spectator it's frustrating that this happens so frequently even if we know he's trying to just beat the first man to increase our chances of threat from them.
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