105 corners

[davieG]

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105 – Another 16 fruitless corners yesterday takes Leicester’s total of corners without a goal to over 100. It’s now 105 corners since Ben Marshall found the head of Wes Morgan on the opening day of the Championship campaign. Perhaps the payers might want to look closely at the Eagles’ corner routines.

[Lambert09]

How could this be true? It was Gallaghers fault we weren't scoring any

[Grey Fox]

IMO Ben Marshall is the best corner taker we have, but he's not been starting for a while now. I'm pretty sure that is one reason we haven't scored for so long. It's still no excuse though, we should be a lot better, no matter who is taking them.

[TrentFox]

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Great stat ! Depressing, but interesting. To be honest, apart from Wes (all season) and ZW (4 games), we are pretty rubbish in the air and this stat would suggest that we need to think about changing the delivery. I have no idea if there is a stat out there about what type of corner we took, but I guess the overwhelming majority have just been lumped into the box ... ofr us to lose the aerial battle for the ball !??

[Guest Col city fan]

Great stat ! Depressing, but interesting. To be honest, apart from Wes (all season) and ZW (4 games), we are pretty rubbish in the air and this stat would suggest that we need to think about changing the delivery. I have no idea if there is a stat out there about what type of corner we took, but I guess the overwhelming majority have just been lumped into the box ... ofr us to lose the aerial battle for the ball !??

I would agree with this completely.

Excepting the two you have mentioned we are a pretty small side.

The stats are truly horrendous in this respect.

[Dan]

We simply don't have an aerial threat. We've got, in my eyes, 3-5 players who regularly play who can win anything in the air, clubs seem to suss that, we don't attack them well enough and haven't done for a good 10 years, it's amazing to think we used to be brilliant at them.

Morgan's an aerial threat (even then he's not as good as Bamba was), Whitbread I assume would be, De Laet possibly, King has been in the past and Nugent has scored (albeit very few) headers before.

It needs serious work, we had 16 and didn't look like scoring at all. It was embarrassing, Palace were pretty much clearing it behind without feeling any pressure in doing so.

Not good enough and I hope it's addressed.

[Swalker]

Well apart from Morgan, de laet and the other CB we never really seem to have much height in the box. Even though nugent and king get headed goals neither are huge

[Kitchandro]

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Oh well, it could be worse, it could be 247 or whatever it was...

Two things were noticeable on Saturday, one was that the deliveries were too floated and too near the edge of the box instead of the penalty spot, the other was that we are cack at attacking the ball aerially. They need to to show a bit more desire and tact, more organisation as well. There should be a man running to the near post, there should be a couple coming in from the back, there should be one standing in front of the keeper, and there should be others making runs from the edge of the box. There should also be some sort of blocking sytem if they're going man-to-man, I'm sure that's what Palace did for their second.

[Kitchandro]

We simply don't have an aerial threat. We've got, in my eyes, 3-5 players who regularly play who can win anything in the air, clubs seem to suss that, we don't attack them well enough and haven't done for a good 10 years, it's amazing to think we used to be brilliant at them.

Morgan's an aerial threat (even then he's not as good as Bamba was), Whitbread I assume would be, De Laet possibly, King has been in the past and Nugent has scored (albeit very few) headers before.

It needs serious work, we had 16 and didn't look like scoring at all. It was embarrassing, Palace were pretty much clearing it behind without feeling any pressure in doing so.

Not good enough and I hope it's addressed.

We aren't very good in the air true, but I think 3-5 should be enough to cause more problems.

We only need one of them to head the ball, maybe two if you want a flick on at the near post but that bloke doesn't even have to be tall.

We're not a very tall/physical side and that is definitely a weakness from corners BUT I don't think we're doing enough to make the most of what we've got. We haven't got enough ideas, most of the time we just float it in aimlessly like we kow we're not going to score from one.

[Dan]

Our corner taking is average and we simply don't attack them well enough, I would think there'd be more of a threat than there is but clearly not, it ain't good enough.

[samstown92]

Yeah I don't think we have 'bad' corner kick takers, we don't really attack them well enough and we aren't exactly a big side. But we have won a few headers which is better than before!

[1964FOX]

he issue is the opposition know this and will be happy to cncede corner after corner, this proves to be a massive waste of the numerous attacks we get in the game ading to the possibility of dominating but then getting dne on a break.

I tink it's time for

'Score from a corner, we never score from a corner.''

[ScouseFox]

We're shit at corners and have been for quite a long time, but in all fairness we basically scored from one at the weekend, if it wasn't for a mental handball on the line, so to say we never looked like scoring is a bit harsh.

Think the lads might find themselves working on corners this week mind, conceding from 2 and having 16 that only created one decent chance. Not a good combination.

[MattyLCFC]

This is one of the reasons I would like to see Futacs!

6 ft 5? I'm sure he would add some threat in the aerial regien!

[Libertine Dream]

You can tell the teams that are good at set pieces as they have some structure to how they are taken. Ourselves on the otherhand stand in the box, wait for the player to take it without communication and hope it hits a Leicester head

[Mark_w]

We've won a shitload of corners.

[Les-TA-Jon]

Vs palace the problem wasn't the attacking players, it was the quality of the crosses - when we did get a decent cross in King put it in the net. Simples.

[Happy Fox]

Nothing wrong with the quality of crosses more so players not attacking them or not having that awareness or confidence to get in the box and get on the end of them.

[Leicester_Numan]

Someone needs to break out the Leicester videos and watch the crosses to Steve Walsh to see the perfect example of where to put the ball and how to attack it. We could easily do the very same simple routines with big Wes and let's face it, who's going to stop him in full flight?

[LCFC FOX]

We need Bruno back. He scores from corners!

[Yojoe36]

Everyone's a midget except Morgan and Whitbread. We need height if anything

[RowlattsFox]

What makes me laugh though, next time we're on TV the commentators will still say that we are always a threat from set pieces Still living off our reputation under MON.

With Dyer and Marshall being so direct we do win a load of corners per game.

[brockmyster]

Dont even get me started on corners, the past few years we have been shite at the both going forward and defensively

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

We dont attack corners well enough, defensively that is too, we dont really try and win the ball well enough

[themotivator]

corners are generally shit for scoring from too. i dont think the attacking team ever really has much of an advantage over the defenders. we arent missing out on too many goals imo.