Good article, Andrew, and thanks for bringing some much-needed balance to the conversation.
It’ll be interesting to see how we reorganise ourselves on the pitch now — whether that means players change defensive zones, Alisson claims more, we deliver more in-swing corners, etc…My guess is Calvert-Lewin will be the most talked-about name around the club this week.
Yeah it's easy enough to realise there's a problem, improving is far harder. I heard on The Late Challenge this week that Leeds scored four set piece goals in their match against Palace recently, so there's far more than Calvert-Lewin to worry about!
Definitely an "eye test vs numbers" situation, but it is, as always, a results-oriented business and it was so hard to overcome the "eye test" even if we're not talking about goals. Most of our set piece situations just looked so toothless that when the crowd gave the usual mild cheer for a corner, I started to wonder what they were cheering for even last season because almost none of ours would ever come out looking like genuine scoring opportunities. He has 10 years of experience doing asst. manager and match analyst work, but clearly defaulting to "set piece coach" was probably not the best move for him, unfortunately.
Good article, Andrew, and thanks for bringing some much-needed balance to the conversation.
It’ll be interesting to see how we reorganise ourselves on the pitch now — whether that means players change defensive zones, Alisson claims more, we deliver more in-swing corners, etc…My guess is Calvert-Lewin will be the most talked-about name around the club this week.
Thanks.
Yeah it's easy enough to realise there's a problem, improving is far harder. I heard on The Late Challenge this week that Leeds scored four set piece goals in their match against Palace recently, so there's far more than Calvert-Lewin to worry about!
Definitely an "eye test vs numbers" situation, but it is, as always, a results-oriented business and it was so hard to overcome the "eye test" even if we're not talking about goals. Most of our set piece situations just looked so toothless that when the crowd gave the usual mild cheer for a corner, I started to wonder what they were cheering for even last season because almost none of ours would ever come out looking like genuine scoring opportunities. He has 10 years of experience doing asst. manager and match analyst work, but clearly defaulting to "set piece coach" was probably not the best move for him, unfortunately.
Watch this space …..literally
haha, indeed!