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Set Pieces
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braineclipse
Willie Hall
Interesting analysis that. Although doesn't really take into account the ability of the set piece taker when making the decision.
The wide left areas might be great opportunities for a shot for us seeing as Eriksen is right footed. The right hand side might not be seeing as we don't have a great left footed free kick taker, but a couple of seasons back it might have been the exact opposite seeing as we then had Bale. I imagine the selection bias in those areas skews the numbers to where teams without set piece experts suitable for those areas will cross much more often so that a lot more of the data points for shots are actually from set piece experts... Not sure how much that influences the analysis, but I thin it's a factor at least.
Also a bit disappointed that an in-depth analysis like this tries to explain Yaya Toure's conversion record without presenting it as more variance related and that it's just a statistical outlier.
Mr_B
Niko Kranjcar
But we are crap at corners ( I hear some fans say)
dier had a couple of free headers today, I used to think we were bad at corners because of the delivery but its actually more of the finishing, dawson could be relied on to head one in, can't say the same for the current crop
It's people attacking the ball, When Bale started attacking the near post ball, we scored more from corners/set pieces.
Dier actually seemed to do that the first few games of season, then regressed. We had about 3/4 headers that we should have scored from.
Cochise
Steve Carr
Dawson never got enough goals from corners. King had great movement in the box to find a yard of space and Caulker was the same.
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
Absolute mess defending set pieces all season.
Rose was marking 6"2 Sissoko at the free kick they scored.
Vertonghen regularly losses his man at corners.
We seem to be a mess anytime a high ball comes across our box when the opposition have any sort of physical striker.
Rose was marking 6"2 Sissoko at the free kick they scored.
Vertonghen regularly losses his man at corners.
We seem to be a mess anytime a high ball comes across our box when the opposition have any sort of physical striker.
braineclipse
Willie Hall
We'll need that set piece solidity against West Ham.
parklane1
Vic Buckingham
@SimonGleave
Tottenham Hotspur have scored the (joint) most goals from set-pieces and conceded the (joint) least
That must be wrong, because if you listen to some of our expert fans we are brick at dead ball situations.
That must be wrong, because if you listen to some of our expert fans we are brick at dead ball situations.
yeah but stats don't prove anything so that table doesn't mean anything
parklane1
Vic Buckingham
Sense at last.
monkeybarry
Ian Walker
Must confess, that surprises meThat must be wrong, because if you listen to some of our expert fans we are brick at dead ball situations.
And that's a big part of why were 2nd.
Ferguson's team were expert at both - they are great opportunities to exploit the opposition
parklane1
Vic Buckingham
The thing with dead ball situations is that they usually ( for various reasons) do not work out most of the time. Time has not changed this but the perspective of fans probably has. For example take Goldenballs and his free kicks outside the box, now if you listen to the so called experts ( pundits and the like) he was ace and the best around, but if you check out his success rate it was no better then most % wise.
Fans today ( for some unknown reason) think if they do not work all the time then they must be brick.
Fans today ( for some unknown reason) think if they do not work all the time then they must be brick.
Spurs7891
Jermaine Jenas
@SimonGleave
Tottenham Hotspur have scored the (joint) most goals from set-pieces and conceded the (joint) least
Interesting stats. Nice to see us scoring the most and conceding the least number of goals from set pieces. But really disappointing that we have only scored 3 goals from freekicks despite having one of the best freekick specialists like Eriksen. For some reason, Eriksen has not been at his best when it comes to taking freekicks this season.