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People get excited at corner kicks?

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Few things prompt the desperate frenzy of excitement when your team is a goal down quite like winning a corner.
 
Upon the sight of the linesman pointing his flag towards the corner, it’s impossible not to get caught up in the sense that you’re definitely about to grab the goal which gets you back in the game.
 
The clock is ticking down, the supporters rise to their feet, the big lads at the back gallop forward and surely – surely?! – this is the moment you’ve been waiting for?
 
Don’t even get us started on when the goalkeeper gets the thumbs up from the sidelines to clumsily sprint into the opposition area and generally run about, bumping into bemused team-mates with the same ‘wtf’ expression of a toddler trying to crack the enigma code – football literally does not get any more exciting.
 
Sadly, we all know what generally happens at this point: the cross gets headed away; or the goalkeeper comes out to catch it; or it sails over everyone’s heads and out for a goal kick; or you inexplicably take a short one, then realise you don’t know what to do, so it gets passed all the way back into your half, only to be lumped back into the area and sail straight out for a goal kick.
 
And Reddit user Hesussavas has gone to impressive lengths to confirm what we’ve always feared: corners just aren’t worth the excitement and anticipation they provoke.
 
Analysing data from the Premier League, La Liga, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Serie A, MLS, Australian A League, Champions League, Europa League, World Cup and European Championships over a five-year period, the committed user ended up with a sample of 11,234 matches and a whopping 115,199 corners.
 
Some of the most interesting nuggets to come out of his research are as follows:
 
– 57.3% of corners lead to nothing i.e the attacking team loses the ball
 
– 26% of corners are not crosses i.e short passes
 
– 1.27% of corners lead to goals
 
– A single team on average takes 15.4 matches to score from a corner
 
There are, of course, notable outliers among these results.
 
For instance, when Liverpool came so close to winning the Premier League in 2013-14. they scored from a corner every 4.22 matches. Their average last season was once every 19 matches.
 
When Atletico Madrid won La Liga in 2013-14, they recorded the same average as Liverpool under Brendan Rodgers.
 
West Brom, who Hesussavas dubs his ‘favourites’, have gone from averaging a goal from a corner every 19 matches to around one every four matches since Tony Pulis took charge.
 
As well as his impressive commitment to the cause, one of our favourite things about Hesussavas is that he is impeccably polite.
 
He starts off his post apologising for his English and concludes on West Brom: ‘I don’t want to be impolite or insulting, but, Gosh, how boring is that!
 
‘Your favourite team scoring decent amount of goals in such a primitive manner. I couldn’t stand that. For sure. I can’t even imagine something worse then that!
 
‘OK. I can. A team, scoring only from penalties. That would be the worst team ever, I think.’
 

 

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I'd like to hope that with the injection of speed in our side with Mané back and Salah purchased, we can now get a little excited about opposition corners, as long as our defence is set up well. The last game of the season at Anfield we saw a little taste of what's the come. There were a few opposition corners from which we managed to launch some decent counter attacks. 

 

But our corners, they're usually woeful and we would be far better just giving the ball to the opposition keeper and running back. 

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I'd like to hope that with the injection of speed in our side with Mané back and Salah purchased, we can now get a little excited about opposition corners, as long as our defence is set up well. The last game of the season at Anfield we saw a little taste of what's the come. There were a few opposition corners from which we managed to launch some decent counter attacks. 

 

But our corners, they're usually woeful and we would be far better just giving the ball to the opposition keeper and running back. 

I thought that's what we did most of the time anyway?

 

Good signs like you say of counterattacks against their corners. Except for the running back bit.

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When opponents win a corner against us, their excitement is quite justified.

 

When we win a corner they set themselves up for a quick break. 

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it used to be quite exciting as a stripling on the standing Kop, when a corner at the Kop end saw you flung half a dozen steps forward as people strained to get a look at the corner taker.  If memory serves me correctly, we used to score from them quite a bit too.  

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