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Are Corner Kicks Becoming Irrelevant?


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I think that, like direct free kicks, putting a corner into the box is probably inefficient but too ingrained culturally, and the reward for doing something different is too marginal, for most teams to stop doing them.

Like shooting from a free kick is quite a stupid thing to when you think of it. You're given free reign to make a pass right outside the opposition penalty area, and the opposition is forced to give you loads of space to make it. Instead, teams almost always choose to take a shot that requires a perfect execution and then has to beat the wall and the goalie, who are all expecting a shot.  It's quite likely that shooting isn't the best choice, unless you have a Messi-tier free kick taker.

But, fans expect you to shoot. Your star players will want to have a shot. Even if you try different routines that get you more goals overall, the difference won't probably be immediately noticeable, and the pressure to go back to the norm will probably build out of control before an alternative approach paid off. 

Corners are similar. Fans would never tolerate a team consistently taking short corners, except for the few teams like Pep's Barca who were so obviously not suited to attacking corners the normal way.

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Not sure, you brainy football lot are more clued up on this than me but why change something that has been going on for years, it's like we had a debate should throw-ins be replaced with free-kicks if so, replace the corner kicks with throw-ins from the corner instead? after all we do have a few footballers who can do that and they do cause a bit of mayhem.

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