I'm not sure what the real-life statistics are for goals being scored from corners, but I feel like too many are being scored in this match engine - and I say that as someone who's hugely benefitted from this.
My Millwall team have scored 20 goals from corners in the Championship in this season just gone. At least 13 of them were headers from our captain and centre-back Jake Cooper, who also scored another two in the FA Cup. Cooper is 201 cm tall and has 16 Heading, 19 Jumping Reach and 16 Strength (which obviously helps a lot) but I still believe that players like him are too deadly from corners - especially in a league at this level.
I am uploading PKMs of every match in which Cooper headed in a goal from a corner kick this season. Here's a full list:
- Millwall v Luton: 50th minute
- Hull v Millwall: 18th minute
- Millwall v Burnley: 84th minute
- Millwall v Blackpool: 38th and 40th minutes
- Oxford United v Millwall: 24th and 73rd minutes
- Fulham v Millwall: 72nd minute
- Millwall v Watford: 33rd minute
- Millwall v Preston: 25th minute
- West Brom v Millwall: 26th minute
- Stoke v Millwall: 85th minute
- Millwall v Bristol City: 9th minute
- Swansea v Millwall: 55th minute
- Millwall v Derby: 11th minute
Across the Championship, there were 208 corner goals scored in 555 matches - in other words, for every EIGHT Championship matches, you can expect to see a corner goal in THREE of them. There were 1,541 goals scored across the Championship this season (including play-offs), which means 13.5% of goals came from corner kicks.
Those stats seem incredibly high. By comparison, 28 goals were scored from direct free-kicks, and 62 from indirect free-kicks.
I'm not a tactical expert at all, but I feel like the defensive marking of these corners - and set-pieces in general - leaves a lot to be desired.
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