Set plays are giving Gunners an edge, yet Ange Postecoglou’s weak spot is not singling them out for specialist coaching
isn’t worried about set pieces, as he has made clear repeatedly over the past few weeks. Football being football, the more he is asked and the more he plays down their importance, the more goals Spurs seem to concede from set pieces. At the same time, as Arsenal score more and more from set pieces, their, has become an increasingly prominent figure, bouncing up from the bench every time Arsenal are awarded a corner or free-kick near the box.
Before the 2018 World Cup, Gareth Southgate realised that practising set pieces was efficient: relatively large gains for a relatively small amount of work. The result was England’s best World Cup since 1990, based largely on Harry Maguire and John Stones being good in the air, and Kieran Trippier’s delivery.
But then this has been an underlying issue almost since coaching began: having broken the game down into component elements that can be practised, how do you put it back together again to make it relevant for the fluent whole? Football is the most fluid of all major ball sports, the one with the fewest fixed points and the longest passages between breakdowns, and that makes it difficult to analyse and predict and thus to practise.and a whole generation of Portuguese coaches, sets out to address.
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