Conceding from set pieces

[Wimborne_saint]

BT Sport just showed some stats - saints have conceded the 3rd biggest percentage (36%) of goals from set pieces in Europe's top 5 leagues. Bayer leverkusen and Monaco above us.

[doddisalegend]

BT Sport just showed some stats - saints have conceded the 3rd biggest percentage (36%) of goals from set pieces in Europe's top 5 leagues. Bayer leverkusen and Monaco above us.

 

Hardly a surprise we have a team of midgets, with all the strength of 10 year old girls, trying to defend a goal manned by giant immobile statue of a keeper....

[Manuel]

Forster invites goals from free kicks. Leaves big spaces he can not cover. Teams seem to have worked out that low shots will get goals.

[IOWSaintDaz]

Without Virgil we are mediocre at best at the back

[L1Minus10]

2 centre backs who can't head the ball and a keeper that won't come off his line will do that for you.

[doddisalegend]

Forster invites goals from free kicks. Leaves big spaces he can not cover. Teams seem to have worked out that low shots will get goals.

 

They don't have to be low the number of free kicks this season were he hasn't batted an eyelid let alone moved to stop the ball is horrendous...just rooted to his line most of the time

[Saint_lambden]

And yet we all have 11 men back in the box defending from every opposition set-piece.

 

Would be interesting to know what the figures were under Koeman, as I seem to remember him making reference to how little goals we had conceded from corners at some point last season.

[Miltonaggro]

BT Sport just showed some stats - saints have conceded the 3rd biggest percentage (36%) of goals from set pieces in Europe's top 5 leagues. Bayer leverkusen and Monaco above us.

 

Fifteen years on the proud legacy at Monaco continues ;-)

[brmbrm]

BT Sport just showed some stats - saints have conceded the 3rd biggest percentage (36%) of goals from set pieces in Europe's top 5 leagues. Bayer leverkusen and Monaco above us.

 

More stats!!!! Saints have conceded the 3rd lowest percentage (64%) of goals from open play! Fantastic!

[doddisalegend]

More stats!!!! Saints have conceded the 3rd lowest percentage (64%) of goals from open play! Fantastic!

 

So the trick to beating saints is for the opposition to dive, dive, dive in around our area to get set pieces...

[trousers]

Without Virgil we are mediocre at best at the back

 

Would be interesting to see a break down of the stats (i.e. before and after VvD's injury)

[qwertyell]

It's not really surprising that we're weak defending set pieces. In an average game, only Yoshida, Stephens and Romeu are players who you'd back to win an occasional header, and even they're not particularly strong in the air.

 

Compare it to last season: we'd have Van Dijk, Fonte, Wanyama, Pelle and often Martina defending corners and free kicks.

 

We're a team of diddy men now.

 

Which makes it all the more galling that our 6' 7" goalkeeper (probably 8' + with his arms raised) won't come off his line to help ease the burden.

[Whitey Grandad]

It's not really surprising that we're weak defending set pieces. In an average game, only Yoshida, Stephens and Romeu are players who you'd back to win an occasional header, and even they're not particularly strong in the air.

 

Compare it to last season: we'd have Van Dijk, Fonte, Wanyama, Pelle and often Martina defending corners and free kicks.

 

We're a team of diddy men now.

 

Which makes it all the more galling that our 6' 7" goalkeeper (probably 8' + with his arms raised) won't come off his line to help ease the burden.

 

I'd leave out Yoshida and Stephens too.