ant london wrote:john@staustell wrote:The improvement in our corners in 4 months was nothing short of spectacular - after years without threatening from one. I'm sure we'll get the free kicks sorted, even without Garrido.
which four months do you mean?
the last four months or the season? or the close season last year when we brought in Barry?
As I thought that I saw us threatening from corners from the get go last season
And the addition of Adebayor's front post defence allied to better aerial defence from the likes of Lescott and Kompany (and even ppl like Boyata when he came in) really did make us actually look much less susceptible to concede from soft corners for the first time in my recent memory
We did improve in those areas but still ended up getting 'done' from the 2nd ball or short corners, still needs a lot of work. Lescott is a big asset at corners at both ends.
My OP was more to do with the comparison between us (at free kicks as opposed to corners) with the likes of Gerrard, Giggs, Lampard, Drogba, Van Persie etc who always seem to be about to score or land the ball right on someone's noggin when they take a free kick anywhere within about 25 yards of the goal. How many times have they done it for the 1st goal or the last goal?
Will we be able to achieve that on the training ground with the players Burt suggests or do we need to sign someone? Or alternatively are we, as usual, on the shit end of it rather than dishing it out?
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