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Set Piece Coach

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goose2010

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Knudsen  was responsible for turning FC Midtjylland into set-piece kings: during their first Superliga title win in 14/15, they scored 25 goals from set-pieces (40%), 14 more than the team in second.

 

Impressive that! Can't wait till Maddison hits the first man on Saturday and Lars runs on and knocks him out 

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6 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

Knudsen  was responsible for turning FC Midtjylland into set-piece kings: during their first Superliga title win in 14/15, they scored 25 goals from set-pieces (40%), 14 more than the team in second.

 

Impressive that! Can't wait till Maddison hits the first man on Saturday and Lars runs on and knocks him out 

He wasn't the set pice coach then 

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40 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

Probably because by hiring him it constitutes a failure by himself and his own coaches. At least he'll have someone else to blame when we continue conceding from corners. 

 

Yep, another scapegoat just walked through the door for Rodgers to blame.

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2 hours ago, filbertway said:

You're all welcome.

 

So joined the USA Mens team on 29th June 2022. So I assume he'll be splitting his time between ourselves and the USA team, which should work fine in the most part as we'll have players away on international duty at the same time.

Tony Roberts is the GK coach for Wales and Wolves. Not saying it's common to do double duty but not the first I've heard of it.

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21 hours ago, goose2010 said:

Knudsen  was responsible for turning FC Midtjylland into set-piece kings: during their first Superliga title win in 14/15, they scored 25 goals from set-pieces (40%), 14 more than the team in second.

 

Impressive that! Can't wait till Maddison hits the first man on Saturday and Lars runs on and knocks him out 

the set piece table for Danish Superliga 14-15. That was the season FC Midtjylland (FCM) won their first ever Danish title, largely on the back of scoring tons of set piece goals. Brian Priske was the set piece and defensive coach that season and he and the players probably deserve 99% of the credit for those goals,

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5 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

the set piece table for Danish Superliga 14-15. That was the season FC Midtjylland (FCM) won their first ever Danish title, largely on the back of scoring tons of set piece goals. Brian Priske was the set piece and defensive coach that season and he and the players probably deserve 99% of the credit for those goals,

have we screwed the pooch again? 

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https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-set-piece-coach-knudsen-7565436

 

Meet the USA coach and Danish title-winner tasked with solving big Leicester City problem
Lars Knudsen is now in place at City after a two-month wait for a visa, with the former Midtjylland assistant manager looking to resolve the club's Achilles' heel


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Leicester City’s specialist set-piece coach has finally arrived at the club to help the squad with their Achilles’ heel.

Lars Knudsen arrived at the club last week, manager Brendan Rodgers has confirmed, after a two-month delay. Rodgers revealed at the start of August that the club had recruited a set-piece coach but that the process of bringing him in had taken three or four weeks to that point, with City seeking the FA’s help to get him a visa.

With those issues sorted, Knudsen can get down to business at Seagrave. Twenty-one of the 59 Premier League goals City conceded came from dead-ball situations last season, and they would have finished in the top six had they cut out even half of those. They were also knocked out of Europe after Tammy Abraham’s header from a corner for Roma.

 

Open-play defending has been the issue this term, but City did concede from a corner in their second game, at Arsenal, Gabriel Jesus nodding in. Knudsen’s task will be to sharpen City up defensively, while also making them a bigger threat in attack.


The Dane is highly-rated in the field and will double up with his duties as set-piece coach for the USA national team, having been appointed to the role earlier in the summer in preparation for the World Cup in Qatar this winter. Previously, he was head coach of Denmark's national youth teams, while he was formerly assistant manager at Midtjylland, where he won the Danish title in 2018. The club's success was built on a strong set-piece game, with 25 of their 80 goals coming from dead balls.

Rodgers said on Knudsen’s appointment at his press conference on Thursday: “He currently works for the USA national team as set-piece coach. He worked before with the Danish national team and was also an assistant manager in Denmark.

“He came very highly recommended. Lars worked closely with the guy who has been appointed as set-piece coach for the German national team (Mads Buttgereit), they worked very closely together. We’re delighted to have him in. It took a long time for him to come in. He’s settled in very well.”

But Rodgers knows his success will also be about the team’s application at set-pieces. After conceding from a long throw against Southampton, and asked whether it was something a specialist coach could fix, Rodgers said: “He’s not coming in with a magic wand.

“He’s going to give us a lot of analysis and he’s a very skilled coach. If you don’t get first contact, a set-piece coach can’t make a difference to that.”

 

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ring ring ring ring 

 

Lars “Hey Kasper, it’s Lars Knudson. I’ve just had an offer from your club to come be a set piece coach” 

 

Kasper “Oh Nice?”

 

Lars “ yes it is very nice, what’s it like there?” 

 

kasper “ Nice?”

 

Lars “oh great i’ll accept and come join you, can’t wait. It’ll be very nice like you say” 

 

Kasper “ that’s amazing, can’t wait to go to the beach with you” 

 

Lars puts the phone down. Wow i’ve hit the lottery, never heard someone speak so well about a place before… and they’ve got a beach. 

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22 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

ring ring ring ring 

 

Lars “Hey Kasper, it’s Lars Knudson. I’ve just had an offer from your club to come be a set piece coach” 

 

Kasper “Oh Nice?”

 

Lars “ yes it is very nice, what’s it like there?” 

 

kasper “ Nice?”

 

Lars “oh great i’ll accept and come join you, can’t wait. It’ll be very nice like you say” 

 

Kasper “ that’s amazing, can’t wait to go to the beach with you” 

 

Lars puts the phone down. Wow i’ve hit the lottery, never heard someone speak so well about a place before… and they’ve got a beach. 

Nice! :cool:

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12 hours ago, davieG said:

"He’s going to give us a lot of analysis and he’s a very skilled coach. If you don’t get first contact, a set-piece coach can’t make a difference to that.”

1. He's going to give analysis... Which I won't listen to if it doesn't fit my style of play.

2. If you don't get first contact... Which is what I've been telling the guys to do, I know the problem... A set-piece coach can't make a difference to that... I didn't want him here, I've been doing fine on my own, with my own analysis in my notebook.

 

He didn't sound excited about this.

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Really interested with how he's going to improve us. 

Some of our biggest issues have been delivery, losing runners and (As BR alluded to) getting first contact. 

 

Wondering if he can give insight in how to improve those. I'd guess with his coaching experience he'd be able to implement that too. But 3 weeks should give us good time to get better at them 

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