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Originally Posted by aws
My gut feeling is that it's our weakness at scoring from set-pieces which costs us the wins. How many times a season do you see the Mancs and chelsea play poorly and still grind out a win - more often than not from a set-piece. How many times this season have we nicked a win when we're having a bad day?
Thet say Villa score the biggest proportion of their goals from set-pieces so presumably some statto keeps a record of this stuff. I bet we're relegation material in that league.
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I have mentioned this earlier aswell. When people are complaining about the amount of goals we let in from set pieces (which is very few compared to other teams) they don't address the real challenge we have, which is lack of goals for.
I don't know what the reasons are either. Do we not practice enough on offensive set piece? Do we not have enough headers/finishers in the starting 11? Are our set piece takers not good enough to either serve a good ball or knock it directly in the net? My guess is a combination of the 3 suggestions I made, even though I seriously doubt it that Rafa actually don't focus enough on an issue like this, so maybe the practice bit isn't the problem.