Scoring from corners cracked

Right I think I have got corners thing sorted at last.

I'm in my third season now and after 10 games I have six goal from corners.

The set up is easy.

Set corners to 6 yard box.

1) Have your best corner taker set to forward and defualt taker.

2) Then you put your strongest and best header must have good jumping and heading on challange goalkeeper I have alou diarra here and he will normally get around 10 goals a season.

3) Get your second best header to attack near post this player will need to have better pace so he can get away from his maker.

4) Your third best header should be set to attack ball from deep. again he will need good heading ,jumping and pace.

5) The last player in the box should be set to stand on far post. This player needs good finishing and anticipation usually your quick striker.

6) put one player on short option he will need to be a good crosser of the ball. so he can put the ball back in if it is cleared

7) the last attacking player set as out side box. this needs to be some one with good long shots and a good first touch.

8) set all remaining players to stay back

this will leave the area with more space for your attaking players to find.

Hope this helps let me know how you get on

You can also set a second player to attack ball from deep this will occupy more defenders if our opposition are keeping players back in the area

I now always have a second player attacking from deep. still working well I have scored 5 goals in six games in the champions league and 8 in 15 in the premiership

I have a tactic that's working for me but corners have been a problem. Would you mind if I gave your corner routine a go and incorporated it in the next version of my tactic? Credit will go where credit is due of course.

I have to say that this corner routine works very well. In the first game I tried it I scored 2 corners!

This is definitely the best corner routine I've tried. I'd also like to incorperate this into the next version of my tactic that is posted on the forum and credit you for it if that's ok with you.

One of the most important things at corners is to make sure that you don't have any player to "Near post flick on". This stuff does all the work.

Feel free to incorporate the setup into your tactics.

I've just finshed the season scoring 24 goals from corners in 3 competitions

Thanks the henge

My existing corner setup was not too dissimilar, but I thought I would give your suggestions a whirl. My ratio of getting goals from corners has actually increased further.

I'm fortunately blessed with players who have jumping, heading, pace, accelleration and anticipation, in my current save.

I'm really enjoying the tactics forums of late as there's some good quality discussions at the moment.

Thanks heathxxx

good to know you're scoring ratio has improved with my suggestions

just tried this out and scored a goal from corners in 1st 3 games so far good set up m8

despite having good players for each position, I only manage to score about 6 a season. often the corners end up going between the 2 who are at the goal and the rest who are lurking behind...

with all this great feedback I will be reviewing it again and checking the instructions for about a 5th time

I do get plenty of corners, so at least that is not a problem.

will also get a better set pieces coach with the new season, could be the inches that are missing.

I have a really good set piece coach but you need to also make sure that your corner taker is up there as well say at least 17 I have van der vaart at present he is 18 for corners I do score less from corners when I have a coorner taker who is not as good around 15 and below

Just to give you some feedback...

I already had a good corner system and was getting plenty of goals. It was'nt too dissimilar to your suggestions, to I made some minor tweeks and having run this corner setup over the course of a season, I can safely say not that is statistically increased my ratio of goals resulting from corner by about a third.

As you pointed out from the offset, having the right players does make a big difference in each of the roles suggested.

ok, new coaches made quite an impact. Also with the AMs being key in the corner routine for me, due to their skills, I rarely adjusted the corner settings, when my winger played in the center, therefor leaving the box half empty.

scored 8 so far about a third through the season, very happy. funnily enough I have scored 4 deciding corner goals in VERY LATE injury time, aka last action of the game

A certain defender by the name of Breno likes this tactic...

He's on 10 goals now from corners, only halfway through the season.

2) Then you put your strongest and best header must have good jumping and heading on challange goalkeeper I have alou diarra here and he will normally get around 10 goals a season.

This is where I utilise Breno (Brazillian centre-back originally bought from Sao Paulo).

pretty much what i've got setup atm, tho i put both my CB's on their GK .

A similar corner tactic to mine.

The henge I disagree slightly with 3 and 4 when you say pace I thick it is more to do with acceleration

and anticipation.

When a corner comes in players are fairly stationary so it is not how fast they can go, but how fast they can get to the ball.

I thought the same when I read that, Oxslow.

Anyone have a similar tactic for free kicks?

Originally posted by Coop:

Anyone have a similar tactic for free kicks?

Just selecting a good free kick taker, let him aim to best header and finding the right balancce ( good headers go forward, fast players with no heading skills stay back) seems to net me at least 15 ifk goals in the league

workz like a miracle mate thx

I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this approach to corners. It has completely changed my game for the better.

Great job

Oh man sergio ramos is the new corner god 14 games 16 goals

Originally posted by heathxxx:

Thanks the henge

My existing corner setup was not too dissimilar, but I thought I would give your suggestions a whirl. My ratio of getting goals from corners has actually increased further.

I'm fortunately blessed with players who have jumping, heading, pace, accelleration and anticipation, in my current save.

I'm really enjoying the tactics forums of late as there's some good quality discussions at the moment.

So my players need this to score allot from corners?

are you all playing with 8.02?

Great work Henge, corners are almost like penalties now, though my team is still a little weak in certain areas, so i don't score as often, but the annoying thing is, i conceed from corners terribly, but thats another matter all together.

Cheers fella

nice setup Henge have not used it myself as I score alot with my own

Mine is slighty differant

my Cb has 7 in 6 upto now

Corners are bugged, I try to avoid any setup that that makes my defenders score 30 goals a season. It wasn't this before 802, it's ruining my game.

Originally posted by Oxslow:

A similar corner tactic to mine.

The henge I disagree slightly with 3 and 4 when you say pace I thick it is more to do with acceleration

and anticipation.

When a corner comes in players are fairly stationary so it is not how fast they can go, but how fast they can get to the ball.

I believe that bravery and strength are more important. So the boy can fight his way to the ball.

James.

Bravery and strenght is important when you challenge for a ball in the air.

I done a test with Inzaghi on in one match. I used the "near post flick on" and the corner taker is set to deliver to near post.

Even when I gave Inzaghi 20 heading and jumping but only 10 bravery 10 strenght he just won 1 out of 6 corner challenges . And this was against an average team with two 16 heading/jumping DC's - but they both had 17 bravery and 17 strenght.

Its easy to see that bravery and strength is vital . Try a quick test like this; set up a tactic where you use a target man and send long balls to him all 90 min. Check this stats after the game and watch how meny ariel challenge he won . Use FMM to change the attributes( high bravery vs low etc etc)

Setup a routine for my spurs team and ive used this as a guide.

My 2 DC's are Samba and woodgate (injurys to king/dawson)

Samba as got better heading/jumping/bravery than woodgate but ive got woodgate to attack GK... he has scored 5goals in 6games so far.

I have Samba to attack nr post, all corners aimed in 6yd box.

very happy with the results but i do think that its unrealistic at times

is there a way i can save such setting? i hate to configure this again and again every match..

well id goto the tactics game and make the changes there and then save your tactic, then load it up for when you play

Originally posted by Jimboola:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Oxslow:

A similar corner tactic to mine.

The henge I disagree slightly with 3 and 4 when you say pace I thick it is more to do with acceleration

and anticipation.

When a corner comes in players are fairly stationary so it is not how fast they can go, but how fast they can get to the ball.

I believe that bravery and strength are more important. So the boy can fight his way to the ball.

James. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I mean for the challenge keeper guy. Heading obviously, jumping of course but add bravery and strength rather than pace and anticipation etc.

I have found it to be v.useful.

who bags most goals for you applying this scheme? For me its the big centre back that challenges the gk in the 6 yard box

Yeah mainly the guy on the GK, but Briand has quite a few from attack near post.

This is the stats of my defender on 'challenge keeper' after 1 season:

Played: 46 (2)

Scored: 35

Including a hattrick in the champions league final, and in the super cup final

And all from corners lol

you would be stupid not to use this tactic.

cheers hedge

i mean henge lol

does height have any influence on all this,or just the attributes?

the henge >

thanks for the superb corner tactics!

i tried it, and in my first game i won 4-1. three of the goals was scored from corners. all three of them scored by Robert Huth - a real hattrick from him

you are god! christopher samba has now just got his 100th league goal after just 3 and a half season!! you are god. this stopped me using the corner rountine where i put everyone on the back post bar my best finisher (whos at the front) and just roling the ball to him to let him spank it in! thanks :0

does anyone have a similar tactic for defending corners, and free kicks?

Just want to chirp up and say Terry scored 5 in 3 games against Man Utd for me within the space of 2 weeks

I have a question actually... is it only centre backs that do well on this corner bug, because I've only heard centre backs doing well so far

People seem to be using centre backs, but a powerful forward or any player with the right "power" attributes could do it.

hehe- it's a bug you fools. near post corners- if your CB is getting 15 goals a year you should be asking questions.

It's definitely a bug. Samba has scored 9 goals in his first 8 games since I signed him for Villa. That's on top of the 4 goals he scored in one match against Zurich in the UEFA Cup.

Cheers Henge I'll check it out, seems to have provoked great feedback!

Anyone else find that regardless of corner-taking attribute, out-swingers lead to more goals than in-swingers?- because half of my in-swingers seem to sort of go over the bar and straight out, whereas I've scored a fair few goals from my right footer taking corners from the right. (NB: My corner taker is Ryan Taylor on both sides, Corners: 17)

Any ideas people?

Is someone able to upload pictures about this corner setup, because it doesn't work

Thanks