![]() While outswingers have a greater chance of leading to a shot (20.9 per cent compared to 18.6 per cent), shots taken from inswingers are significantly more likely to result in goals (10.8 per cent, compared to 6.5 per cent) because they almost always happen closer to the goal. ![]() Arsenal, Southampton, Newcastle, Watford, Brentford and West Ham all profited while Chelsea also won a penalty from a corner, which they converted.Ī percentage of 3.4 may seem small but in Paul Power’s 2018 paper “Mythbusting set pieces in soccer”, which was based on three seasons of Premier League data looking at 12,000 corners and 3,600 free kicks, it revealed teams are actually more likely to score from set pieces (1.8 per cent) than from a normal open-play possession (1.1 per cent).īut which type of corner is best and why do teams take such different approaches?įootball analytics experts StatsBomb looked into the success of each corner type across the top five European leagues since 2019-20, and found that inswinging corners have a lower completion success (30 per cent) compared with outswinging corners (42 per cent) with regard to reaching a team-mate.īut Power’s paper found that inswingers are more dangerous than outswingers. In fact, last weekend, six teams in separate matches scored goals from a corner. So far this season, we are slightly above average at 4 per cent. In the past 10 Premier League seasons, 3.4 per cent of corners resulted in a goal. But should they be inswinging or outswinging? ![]() Yet corners are a valuable weapon in an attacking team’s armoury. ![]() It puzzled Jose Mourinho when he first came to England how fans reacted to their team winning a corner kick “with the same applause as a goal”. ![]()
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