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Arsenal used the same corner routine twice against Manchester City, which led to Gabriel scoring their second goal of the game. What makes it so effective?

JJ Bull explains 🧠

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[loveadeola]

The problem with this tactic is not that teams don't know it or know what to do against it, but doing it frees the other tall players, allowing them to enter dangerous scoring positions also. Arteta has been recruiting players over 6ft tall for years now, and conspiring to stop Gabriel leaves someone like Havertz or Rice or Saliba or any of the other tall players free. It's a futile effort to try and stop them honestly.

[MerijnH]

He's coming Nketiah? No he left Arsenal

[marufmehedi]

Saka & Rice is providing some insane accurate deliveries on the far post

[justthetwoofus.]

Even placing a huge CB on Gabriel isn’t enough. Gabriel’s fake on Walker was genuinely impressive. He’s cemented himself as a uniquely prolific goalscoring CB, maybe the best in the world at it atm.

[bnterontilt]

Blocking GK is not legal anymore... PGMOL made it clear this szn

[Gooninguntildie]

You should’ve mentioned the brilliance of the deliveries Saka and Rice consistently produce week in week out. And doesn’t matter if teams start to focus Gabriel or not. We have giants in every position. Someone will take advantage anyway😂

[Thembisile]

Knowing that they do it is one thing…knowing how to stop is is another thing. It reminds me of Athena Robbens cut to the left…all defenders knew he’d do it but still couldn’t stop him

[AndrewWhitsed]

The blocking the keeper is the most important part, it allows the delivery to be put in an area where normally a keeper can catch/punch.

[alexrochlitz]

Based on how brilliant our set piece coach seems to be, I think any time a team figures the secret to stopping a routine out, they'll expose an opening or weakness for our players to exploit. I feel like it'll be a never ending problem for other teams.

[nathanielmccarthy]

Its also important to have a player bringing the ball in and putting it into the same place every single time

[MosesLiao-ms]

Put a 3-4 man wall at the far post. Make the Arsenal players run around the wall to delay the blocking

[joelmacinnes]

The keeper should just go for it, if there are two players on him impeding his jump it's a foul

[yaelomannetje]

Always thought it would be a fun idea if the defending team, instead of trying to prevent the run from happening, actively attacked the ball to head it clear. Would be very risky and likely result in another corner, but might be a way to prevent this (ball constantly going to the same player in approximately the same place) from happening.

[khalidlaabarta]

I hope you do games analasys like back in the day

[snaggiz]

Now imagine you add Merino into the mix as well. Loads of players who are strong in the air and who consistently win their duels in the area while you got great consistency in delivery from Saka and Rice.

Even if you know it’s coming, most teams don’t have the player material to deal with it.

[Glory-Compass]

The problem is that this system has no clear loophole for now because if the screener succeeds in catching Gabriel he leaves tall heading players like Havertz, Rice and Saliba Free

With Saka also switching between playing corners far or near the post to maybe Trossard or White
It’s very unpredictable

[mdrazzad]

Just make a wall like free kick near the back post. It'll stop the back post runners to push into goalkeeper.
You can win fouls from that position too as Arsenal pushes ahead .

[gooner]

Other teams can't do anything about it really, Nicolas Jover tweaks it every week and every which makes it hard for their defenders to work out which one we're going to do.

[JoshMarshain]

Saliba, Gabriel, White, Havertz, if they score a corner you can only blame yourself for not covering them.

[joachimschmidt]

The way to keep the gk free is:
1.) gk start position in the net and race forward. Doesn't work in practice.
2.) offside trap from the corner: ie defenders hold a line 9 yards out. Its a bit dramatic, very risky, but could work
3.) rugby lift on the GK for the cross. Weak at the front and back post. But let's be honest, every team is weak there if the gk is obstructed from moving across

I predict a trend towards more average sized keepers (like Cillesen) with more gameplay ability and 1v1 strength and agility... In 10years Time