Set pieces

[dynamark]

Iborra is useful as the front man clearing corners- but he was not playing

[Monsell1976]

A keeper that doesn’t dominate his box makes it harder for their defence.

 Quite a lot of set pieces conceded, kasper could come and claim, and take the pressure of the defence, and give his defenders confidence in the keeper at set pieces.

[yorkie1999]

27 minutes ago, Monsell1976 said:

A keeper that doesn’t dominate his box makes it harder for their defence.

 Quite a lot of set pieces conceded, kasper could come and claim, and take the pressure of the defence, and give his defenders confidence in the keeper at set pieces.

The problem is we have too many players back at corners which get in the way and prevents kasper coming and claiming the ball

[Marshall Cockney Fox]

Get Huth to become our new set piece coach. Clearly his playing days are probably done. He's a terminator on crosses.

[NewEnglandFox]

I'm not sure how he was supposed to claim this one today. There were a lot of bodies in the box. He'd have to suicidally commit to a flying punch and hope for the best.

 

He does preoccupy himself with the defender though as if the best defence is to hope he gets fouled.

[ChownLC]

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I'm not quite sure where fuchs is going?

[Tuna]

2 minutes ago, InLoveWithNgolo said:

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I'm not quite sure where fuchs is going?

He's just not concentrating.

 

Non League defending.

[Monsell1976]

22 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

The problem is we have too many players back at corners which get in the way and prevents kasper coming and claiming the ball

No disrespect to kasper, but this is his weakness, and probably what stops the big boys coming in for him.

 As a centre half, no better feeling than a big shout from the keeper, and dominating the situation, but the lack of it causes nerves.

 He should be pushing his players out the way to get it, or if he feels they are in his way, reposition them.

 I would say most teams that do their homework, put a lot of players around him, as they identify the weakness 

[Ian Nacho]

1 hour ago, dynamark said:

Iborra is useful as the front man clearing corners- but he was not playing

I think Silva played ahead of Iborra today to compensate for the lack of creativity without Mahrez. I do prefer Iborra personally though. 

[Ian Nacho]

53 minutes ago, InLoveWithNgolo said:

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I'm not quite sure where fuchs is going?

You know it's bad when you can't really tell if its zonal or man to man.

[drofmor55]

This is amateurish...Puel seems to be concentrating on making us  a better passing side fair enough..but i  dont think that  defending set pieces  is his strong point...he really needs to delegate and bring in a specialist coach to sort this out..NFL teams have coaches for all departments of the game , i think this is way overdue..the longer this goes on the more other teams will exploit it

[Dr The Singh]

Today's goal was a individual error by Fuchs, nothing bPuel etc can do about that

[drofmor55]

How many more "individual errors" at corners are we willing to accept ...

[Jimmy]

4 hours ago, SuperMike said:

Goalkeeper to come out to catch or punch the ball - not do strange, inexplicable star-jumps on his line.

OR

As cropstonfox has just said:   Huth.

a defender that doesn't completely lose his man and look like he's playing Stuck in the Mud wouldn't go a miss

[oldbluefox]

Anything in or near to the six yard box should be the keeper's. It doesn't help that Kasper seems to be glued to the goal line. Lately there has been evidence that he has been dominating his box much more but yesterday's goal was a good example of a player getting a free header and a keeper who should have claimed a ball on the edge of the six yard box in the middle of the goal.

Kasper is a great keeper but this is definitely his Achilles heel.