Interestingly Arteta was actually the one who hired Jover at City, once Arteta left Pep stopped giving him time on the training field to implement his ideas so he followed Arteta to Arsenal.
I'm not sure how many of your viewers watch American Football, but the concept in these set pieces is very similar in concept to what is run in an American Football passing play. You have a receiver (Gabriel) on a "hot route" who is the passer's (Rice) optimal target, and he times his route to meet the pass. The job of the other players is to create space in the defense so the pass can be delivered to the open hot route receiver. That is basically what Arsenal are doing here, only translated to the pitch.
@@saikomiko9032In fairness, in terms of on-pitch stuff, I think corners are literally the only thing where NFL style plays are relevant to football (even wide free kicks are quite different, largely due to the offside rule making things like blocks near impossible). But Arsenal/Jover/Arteta seem to have identified the similarities and exploited the opportunity, so fair play to them
Thanks for the overexplanation! One extra thing that could be added to make it an overoverexplanation was Arsenal's method for stopping the goalkeeper from getting to the ball. I haven't watched all their corners this year, but with White injured and the attention he was starting to get last year for standing beside the goalkeeper and obstructing him, I think that their strategy has evolved this year to have one of the rushing players to occupy the space between the goalie and the ball - so I think that most of the time it isn't obstruction, when they do it properly anyway
Same i havent watched all corners. But it is an interesting question as to how to see this in terms of intent and result. What you mentioned is that if arsenal players do it right, it technically cannot be counted as obstruction. But is it their intention to cause an obstruction? For me, this goes against the spirit of the law even if they are going by the letter of the law. What eventually results are two things if it is decided that this is against the spirit of the game: 1) either they change the rule to be clearer or 2) referees will start looking at tactical intents behind corner plays (which they possibly already do for some cases) And lastly, for me, corner kicks are pretty boring. I wouldnt want to see most games decided by corners. Football has always emphasised excitement derived from freeflowing play.
@@johncarveti8375 I'm no rules expert, but to me this is easily in the middle of the grey area where it would be too difficult to clarify the rules or rely on referees to judge intent. There is a lot more egregious stuff happening in the box (again, as long as their runs are done properly), but maybe I'm just biased as an Arsenal fan? I love freeflowing play too, but corner kicks have never seemed boring to me, and it's not like Arsenal are conceding any of their freeflowing play in their efforts to gain an edge from set pieces. I don't like it when the strategy becomes to disrupt the flow of play to minimize open play while maximizing set pieces, which I don't feel Arsenal does at all. And I also don't see this as leading to games decided by corners; I think it's just a great example of how narrow margins can be utilized. Arsenal is targeting an optimization of the margins offered by set pieces, beginning with team building and skill / trait selection, and then incorporating that into their tactics. Arteta's philosophy of "domination" applies not only to open play but to all aspects, including tilting the "differential in set piece advantage", which contributes to maximizing xG differential.
@@johncarveti8375I think you are looking at it too directly. Part of the reason Arsenal have become set piece FC is because we face so many low blocks, and are given so many corners. So this is essentially a counter to a counter. Other teams counter technical superiority by giving away corners (corners generally have a low conversion rate) as it's safer than open play. Arsenal scoring lots of corners means low block teams now have to come up with a new plan to stop the interesting free flowing football, so this could actually result in less corners and more free flowing football.
Loved this analysis of Arsenal’s set-pieces , they’ve become a real joy to watch as a fan. One thing though about Monaco’s Defence against our corners; would it have been the same had Gabriel played? 🤔
Keep an eye on Odegaard and before the signal from the kicker. He’ll pull at his socks to dictate if it’s a front post delivery or back post. The kicker always walks slowly while the teams set up and Odegaard is best place to assess the picture and tell the kicker what to do. Very much something a futsal coach or American football coach would do
Wonder whether our American owners and their NFL background have had some input... Am sure I recall them saying they'd look to implement things that can apply to both and there's a strong hint of American Football in our corner routines now, the runners, blockers and bamboozling oppo to get one guy free for a pin point delivery 😬 don't care if it is or not, just glad it's working cos we've needed it !
@@vincnetjones3037 True in some cases but their tackle technique often has to be different because of the various severe penalties for helmet contact, unneccessary roughness, pass interference, etc and safety for themselves considering players are coming at higher speeds for all angles, often on artificial or frozen pitches
@@vincnetjones3037Yeah there are definitely times where a classic rugby tackle would work far better. But there is a big difference in that rugby is an endurance sport whilst the NFL is a series of short sprints. That means the guy running at you in the NFL is bigger and running much faster, so if you don't get your bodyweight behind it, they can just run through your arms. If the same guy played rugby, they would be totally worn out. So direct comparisons can only go so far.
He did not "meet" Arteta at City. Arteta directed City and Pep to bring him on. Even at City, Pep did not really allow Jover implement his ideas as freely as he'd like. Then Arteta moved to Arsenal and invited Jover to join him. He has let Jover do his thing.
Maybe you could show us heat maps for coaches. How many times Jover enters in the technical area. How many times Arteta refuses to be contained by it. :)
Gabriel's incredible ability to consistently score bullet headers from our corner routines, as well as his fucking awesome celebrations when he does score them, have turned him into my new favourite Arsenal player. He is one of those players who just gets it, and I love it
I don’t know if anyone has bought this up, but I feel Arsenal have become good at corners because most teams park the bus against us. You’re bound to end up with corners if someone’s parking the bus. It’s low hanging fruit and Arteta has picked it. It’s brilliant when you think about it.
Presumably there is a flaw in this suggestion...welcome the comments...but if the whole point of the routine is to get the ball to Gabriel at a known point (as Adam clearly (no pun) shows)...why not make sure there is at least one big guy defending that area at all times? Sure, Gabriel might still win the header but at least he wouldn't get a "free" header. And what about the goalkeeper? No discussion in the video about what he might be able to do. Regardless...thank you Adam for the video. Consistently one of the best football channels
well, if the net is only half of 7.32m, then maybe it'll work. you sorta forgotten that the delivery can be placed in front/back post. zonal defence flaw is that you dont get to go to the ball, you wait for the ball to come to your head. but who wants to defend while waiting for the ball to come to you? well, it doesn't, most of the time. man-man marking is still the favourite to defend arsenal's corners.
If you want a defence against this, then let the Arsenal players go beyond the far post and create a wall with your own defenders that stops them returning.
An alternative is leaving a few players on the halfway line. In the event arsenal don’t score you can counter attack and potentially score. Arsenal are left in a dilemma of committing men or not to
The baffling part in many of the still photos, was how much the defending teams overcrowded the near post, with no Arsenal players anywhere around. You'd quess that at this level, every team would do at least some level of scouting to other teams set-piece routines.
Could this be something England try, with Rice and Saka on the pitch? Or would it depend on having someone like Gabriel too much. Do we have that kind of player?
These corner tactics are nothing new, Man U used to do it around 97/98, Rangers used to have similar ones back in the late 90’s when they got the German left back who had a hammer put it to the back post and they would header it back towards the other post, you need old school tactics to deal with it
From that clip, there is a high certainty that aresenal’s corner tactic is to prevent the goalkeeper from getting to the ball at the far post with the screen of players. Shouldn’t it be called as a foul as attacking players should not be impeding the gk? The spirit of the law is that goalkeepers should have control over their area. And while attacking players have a right to stand their ground as well to challenge for the ball, a coordinated attempt by the team to screen the goalkeeper is definitely against the letter and the spirit of the law.
Do you have an exact area in the rules you're referring to? He said it in the video, all teams will be doing it soon, like all teams started copying Pep, just Arsenal are first there. 'Dont hate the player, hate the game'
I don't see which letter of the rules standing near a goalkeeper breaks. As far as the rules are concerned, goalkeepers are ultimately no different when it comes to being fouled, and there is nothing that says they "control the box". Decades ago, goalkeepers used to basically get beaten up, so referees started to protect them more (although the rules never actually changed). But standing near them isn't dangerous. Plus, the defenders get in the way just as much as the attackers. If you look at the teams where Arsenal have had the most success, they've had goalkeepers who are weak in the air (Tottenham, Man United). The better goalkeepers just come and punch it. This wouldn't work well against Petr Cech; the move to ball playing goalkeepers has led to the average keeper being less good at dealing with crosses, and this is simply a smart way of exploiting it.
@@bighamster2Ths is cut and pasted directly from the laws: Impeding the progress of an opponent without contact Impeding the progress of an opponent means moving into the opponent’s path to obstruct, block, slow down or force a change of direction when the ball is not within playing distance of either player. When the Arsenal players start runing in front of everyone (and outright pushing in most cases) when the ball is just being delivered and not a playable distance away, they are guilty of obstruction.
@@bryansmith6327Wow... I can't believe they ever made such an awful rule, and not surprised that this isn't enforced. With this wording, it's an automatic foul for opponent for everytime they in the way of another player. Personally i see no problem in blocking, unless there is pushing, pulling or showing involved, witch are all against the rules anyway. But if we do want to have a rule in place against blocking, i think it should be at least written in a way where it's not worded as mandatory yield for the players of attacking team.
@@dubdub9747it's nothing genius tactics, teams have been looking at how much they can get away with screening goalkeeper. It will be only a matter of time before lower half teams start doing it as it's best chance for them to score, bring big players in even if they're bad at feet, crowd the goalkeeper and just bam. Sean dyche will defeat peak Barcelona with the tactics all because FA can't call for these fouls
Take the counter corner attack a step further. Bring everyone back. Then, as Arsenal set up their corner, send 1 back up the pitch at a time and watch CHAOS ensue. (See peak 1st spell at Chelsea Mourinho.)
Portugal used to leave three men up on the halfway line for corners.... just like Monaco. I've always wondered why more teams don't do this. In fact I've spotted that a lot of teams leave nobody up on the half way line, which doesn't seem sensible.
Teams used to do it. The answer is because it leaves them outnumbered in the box and more likely to concede - it's a gamble and good managers don't usually like to gamble.
@@kunimitsune177 If U leave 3 up then the other side will have to leave 3 back. Numbers are equal. I just think it unnerves the attackers.... Only a thought.
@@vincnetjones3037they won’t have to leave three back they could just leave one very pacey player on the halfway line to collect the ball to stop the counter and have the keeper higher up the pitch to sweep
@@vincnetjones3037 it used to be if you leave a man on the halfway line then the other team would leave two defenders for safety. More and more teams are using their keeper higher up so it cuts it down to one outfield defender but your point is still valid. I never see the point in having small pacy forwards being back defending a corner rather than upfield in case of a counter-attack opportunity
Why doesn't the defending team line all their players up on the far post with arms linked. Aresenal can't push through them and the defenders are facing the ball to move if they need to.
Exactly. Every corner half of the Arsenal 'battering ram' just grab people by the shoulders and throw them or two hand shove them out the way. I think the rules or ref interpretations need to change but until that happens, every defender should go down and every opposing manager should rant about it. atm teams are just letting it happen to them.
@ you must not have been watching football in the last ten years it doesn’t take much contact to foul a keeper they are protected and mind you pinning the keeper isn’t a football play 😭 just say you enjoy getting away w cheating
Not entirely sure, but Arsenal would probably still be a top 4 team, even erasing all their goals scored from set pieces. This can of course be proved easily, by just recalculating the results if somebody is willing to go through all that.
No they don't In ANY way. There are absolutely zero loopholes in the relevant rules and Arsenal aren't even particularly well versed in the dark arts. They're just better at this part of the game than other teams.
@@kunimitsune177 The rules or the interpretation of the rules that really counts here is the giving of fouls by attackers and defenders and the different standards refs seem to have at corners. The defenders can't focus solely on the man because they'll get a pen given against for not looking at the ball. But the attackers can push, barge, literally throw players out the way and not ever try to look at the ball with the goal still getting given. Attackers can play the man, defenders can't. That's what needs to change - whether its the actual rules or the guidance given to refs on how to interpret them.
just thinking out loud here but to get over ‘you can’t see the man and the ball’ point…couldn’t defenders just stand side on facing away from their goal? cause you can still look side to side too see ball and man, plus you then have a little momentum when trying to get a jump from jumping your body up??
Arsenal's routine: flood a zone, barge/foul every defender in it, rely on VAR to be asleep at the wheel. The delivery is great, the referees and/or the football laws are not. As Adam said, the defenders can't turn around or look at both at the same time, but he didn't mentioned is they'll very likely get a pen given against if they do focus solely on the man. So the Arsenal boys just form a 5 man battering ram of players who aren't even trying to head the ball but instead just grabbing and barging everyone from behind to clear them out allowing the 6th man to nod it in unopposed. It's a massive rule/ref interpretation loophole that no-one seems to be calling out. Again, the delivery and execution is great. I just don't think it's fair contest because it goes against both the letter and the spirit of the rules, but for some reason the refs don't seem to care.
What is also concerning is that this encourages even more rough play within the penalty box. Corner kicks seem like a relic of the past, if we are going along the trajectory of how fifa likes to see the game as: freeflowing entertainment.
Yeah I think Arsenal have grown tired of being victims of this kind of play and are now delivering with hilarious reactions from the same people who used to tell them to harden up.
@@christmascritters3691 Arsenal used to get bullied on 'normal' set pieces, so I totally get changing the profile of their player to be bigger and stronger. But this problem with this method is that its effectively unstoppable because the refs aren't calling the fouls. Even the biggest and strongest defenders can't do much when someone surprise barges them in the back. Arsenal aren't outmuscling other teams, they're fouling them.
I hard disagree that this is hard for a team to learn. They are professional players. This is easily handled in American football and basketball regularly.
Monaco's tactic is very clever. It's high-risk but effective. By threatening Arsenal with a quick counter, they reduced the number of players in the box, thus reducing the chaos. But the risk is high if your remaining defenders aren't good at marking players one-on-one.
surely be forced to have more of your small quick defenders having to look after these half-way line guys ends up INCREASING your relative height advantage in the 6 yard box, gving you fewer ball attackers, but more relative advantage over the team defending the corner?
The thing is, broadly speaking, fewer defenders and attackers in the box is better for the attacking team. That's why teams usually put all 11 in the box nowadays. So whilst it *might* help counter this particular tactic, it makes you more vulnerable to a more traditional corner routine. If it continues, I wouldn't be surprised if Arsenal add another corner tactic, because if someone has to man-mark Gabriel with fewer zonal markers, they're still going to lose out most of the time.
It's a foul. But they use this loophole same as mini DRS, flexible wings, flexible floor in F1 recently, they gained benefit from it then it got banned.
Standing your ground is not a foul. Joelinton wasn’t penalised for a two handed push in the back on Gabriel last year, the manager was charged for speaking on it, and an ‘independent’ panel justified it. We didn’t set this threshold, but we’ve had to adapt to it.
Small players without no fight and bad coaching. Pretty simple really. Hopefully Amorim gets a handle on it soon but he probably won't have time to really focus on it till the summer
Would have been nice to look at how Liverpool defend corners against Arsenal, given that they are the only Premier League team not to concede a corner to them.
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Arsenal would have 3 points without set pieces this season. All they gotta do to defend that is do what they do in rugby and lift the gk up to catch the ball or they could use their teammates shoulder to jump higher or better yet…get a running start from inside the goal but no one thinks of this even though they make millions of dollars, that’s insane.
Interestingly Arteta was actually the one who hired Jover at City, once Arteta left Pep stopped giving him time on the training field to implement his ideas so he followed Arteta to Arsenal.
That makes a lot of sense now
Mikel claimed "he went to war" to bring Jover to Arsenal tbf. Makes sense why he would now.
Also makes a lot of sense why Jover and City (namely Kyle Walker) had some extra spice against each other in October 2023
I'm not sure how many of your viewers watch American Football, but the concept in these set pieces is very similar in concept to what is run in an American Football passing play. You have a receiver (Gabriel) on a "hot route" who is the passer's (Rice) optimal target, and he times his route to meet the pass. The job of the other players is to create space in the defense so the pass can be delivered to the open hot route receiver. That is basically what Arsenal are doing here, only translated to the pitch.
Mikel has said it a number of times, that he talks to top NFL coaches for ideas.
@@yf9409exactly I remember an interview in America where he talked about NFL and the comments were all bunch of nonsense saying it’s BS. It won’t work
Haven't you just described American football?
@@saikomiko9032In fairness, in terms of on-pitch stuff, I think corners are literally the only thing where NFL style plays are relevant to football (even wide free kicks are quite different, largely due to the offside rule making things like blocks near impossible).
But Arsenal/Jover/Arteta seem to have identified the similarities and exploited the opportunity, so fair play to them
@@bighamster2 Facts
Thanks for the overexplanation! One extra thing that could be added to make it an overoverexplanation was Arsenal's method for stopping the goalkeeper from getting to the ball. I haven't watched all their corners this year, but with White injured and the attention he was starting to get last year for standing beside the goalkeeper and obstructing him, I think that their strategy has evolved this year to have one of the rushing players to occupy the space between the goalie and the ball - so I think that most of the time it isn't obstruction, when they do it properly anyway
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Same i havent watched all corners. But it is an interesting question as to how to see this in terms of intent and result. What you mentioned is that if arsenal players do it right, it technically cannot be counted as obstruction. But is it their intention to cause an obstruction? For me, this goes against the spirit of the law even if they are going by the letter of the law. What eventually results are two things if it is decided that this is against the spirit of the game: 1) either they change the rule to be clearer or 2) referees will start looking at tactical intents behind corner plays (which they possibly already do for some cases)
And lastly, for me, corner kicks are pretty boring. I wouldnt want to see most games decided by corners. Football has always emphasised excitement derived from freeflowing play.
@@johncarveti8375 I'm no rules expert, but to me this is easily in the middle of the grey area where it would be too difficult to clarify the rules or rely on referees to judge intent. There is a lot more egregious stuff happening in the box (again, as long as their runs are done properly), but maybe I'm just biased as an Arsenal fan? I love freeflowing play too, but corner kicks have never seemed boring to me, and it's not like Arsenal are conceding any of their freeflowing play in their efforts to gain an edge from set pieces. I don't like it when the strategy becomes to disrupt the flow of play to minimize open play while maximizing set pieces, which I don't feel Arsenal does at all. And I also don't see this as leading to games decided by corners; I think it's just a great example of how narrow margins can be utilized. Arsenal is targeting an optimization of the margins offered by set pieces, beginning with team building and skill / trait selection, and then incorporating that into their tactics. Arteta's philosophy of "domination" applies not only to open play but to all aspects, including tilting the "differential in set piece advantage", which contributes to maximizing xG differential.
@@johncarveti8375I think you are looking at it too directly. Part of the reason Arsenal have become set piece FC is because we face so many low blocks, and are given so many corners. So this is essentially a counter to a counter. Other teams counter technical superiority by giving away corners (corners generally have a low conversion rate) as it's safer than open play. Arsenal scoring lots of corners means low block teams now have to come up with a new plan to stop the interesting free flowing football, so this could actually result in less corners and more free flowing football.
@@mavsworld1733 You are spot on
Loved this analysis of Arsenal’s set-pieces , they’ve become a real joy to watch as a fan.
One thing though about Monaco’s Defence against our corners; would it have been the same had Gabriel played? 🤔
Keep an eye on Odegaard and before the signal from the kicker. He’ll pull at his socks to dictate if it’s a front post delivery or back post. The kicker always walks slowly while the teams set up and Odegaard is best place to assess the picture and tell the kicker what to do. Very much something a futsal coach or American football coach would do
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Even Gabbys movement to get away from his marker is amazing..
I only really watch this channel when Adam puts a video up, I have no idea what else is posted.
Same. I always skip ahead to make sure it’s Adam before committing to a video on this channel. He’s a legend
Hi Adam :). Can you make a video on Nottingham Forrest and how they’re forth place by Christmas?
I'm pretty sure the Americans invented a ball game that's based entirely around set pieces (and advert breaks).
If I end up in HR for saying "big beefy boys" all day at work. I'm giving them your contacts!! 😂
the anne hathaway joke at 4:17 was crazy funny
Wonder whether our American owners and their NFL background have had some input... Am sure I recall them saying they'd look to implement things that can apply to both and there's a strong hint of American Football in our corner routines now, the runners, blockers and bamboozling oppo to get one guy free for a pin point delivery 😬 don't care if it is or not, just glad it's working cos we've needed it !
American footballers could do we some rugby coaching on how to tackle and hold a man.... they seem to utterly useless at this particular tactic.
@@vincnetjones3037 True in some cases but their tackle technique often has to be different because of the various severe penalties for helmet contact, unneccessary roughness, pass interference, etc and safety for themselves considering players are coming at higher speeds for all angles, often on artificial or frozen pitches
@@vincnetjones3037Yeah there are definitely times where a classic rugby tackle would work far better.
But there is a big difference in that rugby is an endurance sport whilst the NFL is a series of short sprints.
That means the guy running at you in the NFL is bigger and running much faster, so if you don't get your bodyweight behind it, they can just run through your arms.
If the same guy played rugby, they would be totally worn out.
So direct comparisons can only go so far.
He did not "meet" Arteta at City.
Arteta directed City and Pep to bring him on.
Even at City, Pep did not really allow Jover implement his ideas as freely as he'd like. Then Arteta moved to Arsenal and invited Jover to join him.
He has let Jover do his thing.
Give that set piece coach a RAISE💫
They did. Man's so good he got a massive contract extensive and pay rise
Maybe you could show us heat maps for coaches. How many times Jover enters in the technical area. How many times Arteta refuses to be contained by it. :)
Gabriel's incredible ability to consistently score bullet headers from our corner routines, as well as his fucking awesome celebrations when he does score them, have turned him into my new favourite Arsenal player.
He is one of those players who just gets it, and I love it
I don’t know if anyone has bought this up, but I feel Arsenal have become good at corners because most teams park the bus against us. You’re bound to end up with corners if someone’s parking the bus. It’s low hanging fruit and Arteta has picked it. It’s brilliant when you think about it.
Presumably there is a flaw in this suggestion...welcome the comments...but if the whole point of the routine is to get the ball to Gabriel at a known point (as Adam clearly (no pun) shows)...why not make sure there is at least one big guy defending that area at all times? Sure, Gabriel might still win the header but at least he wouldn't get a "free" header. And what about the goalkeeper? No discussion in the video about what he might be able to do. Regardless...thank you Adam for the video. Consistently one of the best football channels
United tried this with Maguire. They changed the point, and sent it to the back post to play it across for Saliba
@@teeone1066 Thank you...not surprising that Arsenal have a "Plan B"...probably a "Plan C" at least as well
well, if the net is only half of 7.32m, then maybe it'll work. you sorta forgotten that the delivery can be placed in front/back post.
zonal defence flaw is that you dont get to go to the ball, you wait for the ball to come to your head.
but who wants to defend while waiting for the ball to come to you? well, it doesn't, most of the time. man-man marking is still the favourite to defend arsenal's corners.
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If you want a defence against this, then let the Arsenal players go beyond the far post and create a wall with your own defenders that stops them returning.
An alternative is leaving a few players on the halfway line. In the event arsenal don’t score you can counter attack and potentially score. Arsenal are left in a dilemma of committing men or not to
The baffling part in many of the still photos, was how much the defending teams overcrowded the near post, with no Arsenal players anywhere around.
You'd quess that at this level, every team would do at least some level of scouting to other teams set-piece routines.
Could this be something England try, with Rice and Saka on the pitch? Or would it depend on having someone like Gabriel too much. Do we have that kind of player?
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15:08 Craig Burley, from ESPN FC, has been saying teams should do this against Arsenal on corners for months.
These corner tactics are nothing new, Man U used to do it around 97/98, Rangers used to have similar ones back in the late 90’s when they got the German left back who had a hammer put it to the back post and they would header it back towards the other post, you need old school tactics to deal with it
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Incredible analysis!
From that clip, there is a high certainty that aresenal’s corner tactic is to prevent the goalkeeper from getting to the ball at the far post with the screen of players. Shouldn’t it be called as a foul as attacking players should not be impeding the gk? The spirit of the law is that goalkeepers should have control over their area. And while attacking players have a right to stand their ground as well to challenge for the ball, a coordinated attempt by the team to screen the goalkeeper is definitely against the letter and the spirit of the law.
Do you have an exact area in the rules you're referring to?
He said it in the video, all teams will be doing it soon, like all teams started copying Pep, just Arsenal are first there.
'Dont hate the player, hate the game'
I don't see which letter of the rules standing near a goalkeeper breaks. As far as the rules are concerned, goalkeepers are ultimately no different when it comes to being fouled, and there is nothing that says they "control the box".
Decades ago, goalkeepers used to basically get beaten up, so referees started to protect them more (although the rules never actually changed). But standing near them isn't dangerous. Plus, the defenders get in the way just as much as the attackers.
If you look at the teams where Arsenal have had the most success, they've had goalkeepers who are weak in the air (Tottenham, Man United). The better goalkeepers just come and punch it.
This wouldn't work well against Petr Cech; the move to ball playing goalkeepers has led to the average keeper being less good at dealing with crosses, and this is simply a smart way of exploiting it.
@@bighamster2Ths is cut and pasted directly from the laws: Impeding the progress of an opponent without contact
Impeding the progress of an opponent means moving into the opponent’s path
to obstruct, block, slow down or force a change of direction when the ball is not
within playing distance of either player.
When the Arsenal players start runing in front of everyone (and outright pushing in most cases) when the ball is just being delivered and not a playable distance away, they are guilty of obstruction.
@@bryansmith6327Wow... I can't believe they ever made such an awful rule, and not surprised that this isn't enforced.
With this wording, it's an automatic foul for opponent for everytime they in the way of another player.
Personally i see no problem in blocking, unless there is pushing, pulling or showing involved, witch are all against the rules anyway.
But if we do want to have a rule in place against blocking, i think it should be at least written in a way where it's not worded as mandatory yield for the players of attacking team.
@@dubdub9747it's nothing genius tactics, teams have been looking at how much they can get away with screening goalkeeper. It will be only a matter of time before lower half teams start doing it as it's best chance for them to score, bring big players in even if they're bad at feet, crowd the goalkeeper and just bam. Sean dyche will defeat peak Barcelona with the tactics all because FA can't call for these fouls
Brilliant again...
THIS THE VIDEO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR
Take the counter corner attack a step further. Bring everyone back. Then, as Arsenal set up their corner, send 1 back up the pitch at a time and watch CHAOS ensue. (See peak 1st spell at Chelsea Mourinho.)
Seriously Anne Hathaway, look for Adam. Thank me later.
Masters of Corners.. you’ll never sing that.
Amorim wasnt the manager that time mate
Adam do a video on Tonali please….
Excellent.
Portugal used to leave three men up on the halfway line for corners.... just like Monaco. I've always wondered why more teams don't do this. In fact I've spotted that a lot of teams leave nobody up on the half way line, which doesn't seem sensible.
Teams used to do it.
The answer is because it leaves them outnumbered in the box and more likely to concede - it's a gamble and good managers don't usually like to gamble.
@@kunimitsune177 If U leave 3 up then the other side will have to leave 3 back. Numbers are equal. I just think it unnerves the attackers.... Only a thought.
@@vincnetjones3037they won’t have to leave three back they could just leave one very pacey player on the halfway line to collect the ball to stop the counter and have the keeper higher up the pitch to sweep
@@vincnetjones3037 it used to be if you leave a man on the halfway line then the other team would leave two defenders for safety. More and more teams are using their keeper higher up so it cuts it down to one outfield defender but your point is still valid. I never see the point in having small pacy forwards being back defending a corner rather than upfield in case of a counter-attack opportunity
@@annoymous7052 Des Walker step forward.
Adam is So good at this 😂😂!!
Why doesn't the defending team line all their players up on the far post with arms linked. Aresenal can't push through them and the defenders are facing the ball to move if they need to.
It is obstruction if they impede the progress of another player when the ball is not within a playable distance
@@bryansmith6327that's exactly what Arsenal players are doing and no one's giving fouls?
@@caraxes6533 Yes, and Arsenal are guilty of fouls almost every corner kick
No way we got a video about Arsenal's set peices😭
Adam I want a video on why we suck at the moment, not our damn corners 😅
the amount of fouls in the clips are insane not one called
Exactly. Every corner half of the Arsenal 'battering ram' just grab people by the shoulders and throw them or two hand shove them out the way. I think the rules or ref interpretations need to change but until that happens, every defender should go down and every opposing manager should rant about it. atm teams are just letting it happen to them.
You should go and play cricket. There is no contact in that game.
@ you must not have been watching football in the last ten years it doesn’t take much contact to foul a keeper they are protected and mind you pinning the keeper isn’t a football play 😭 just say you enjoy getting away w cheating
Can someone get Adam his own studio please. 🙏 Thank you! 😊
A set piece coach being the reason a team finishes top 4 is crazy. Tony Pulis go take notes!
Wait til he finds out Sir Alex rarely took training sessions.
Not entirely sure, but Arsenal would probably still be a top 4 team, even erasing all their goals scored from set pieces.
This can of course be proved easily, by just recalculating the results if somebody is willing to go through all that.
@@konzza not entirely the only reason, but surely a big contributor. Arse haven't scored a non-corner goal in almost 2 months.
@@jerkov420where do u get ur stats 😂😂😂😂😂
Because they take advantage of the loopholes in the rules. Not saying it in a salty way I actually respect it
No they don't
In ANY way. There are absolutely zero loopholes in the relevant rules and Arsenal aren't even particularly well versed in the dark arts.
They're just better at this part of the game than other teams.
@@kunimitsune177 The rules or the interpretation of the rules that really counts here is the giving of fouls by attackers and defenders and the different standards refs seem to have at corners.
The defenders can't focus solely on the man because they'll get a pen given against for not looking at the ball. But the attackers can push, barge, literally throw players out the way and not ever try to look at the ball with the goal still getting given. Attackers can play the man, defenders can't. That's what needs to change - whether its the actual rules or the guidance given to refs on how to interpret them.
@@kunimitsune177that’s just a harder thing to accept it seems. Taking advantage of a loophole, but they can’t say which one or how? 😂
14:45 couldn't resist to show the bias eh? stay humble eh?
Adam, will you have a carabao beer for us americans who can’t get one?
Would a wall be legal? 4 man wall across the back of the 6yd box
Adam, you look like Nicholas Jover, I bet u r brothers
The train joke definitely seems like its speaking from personal experience 🧐😂
just thinking out loud here but to get over ‘you can’t see the man and the ball’ point…couldn’t defenders just stand side on facing away from their goal? cause you can still look side to side too see ball and man, plus you then have a little momentum when trying to get a jump from jumping your body up??
11:15
The .82 player isn't very useful in a corner, misses a head
It's weird cos in my head the 'default' corner is an outswinger, but that's clearly completely off base!
As a part time goal keeper, in-swingers are always more dangerous.
Another video to Jinx Arsenal!
Arsenal's routine: flood a zone, barge/foul every defender in it, rely on VAR to be asleep at the wheel. The delivery is great, the referees and/or the football laws are not.
As Adam said, the defenders can't turn around or look at both at the same time, but he didn't mentioned is they'll very likely get a pen given against if they do focus solely on the man. So the Arsenal boys just form a 5 man battering ram of players who aren't even trying to head the ball but instead just grabbing and barging everyone from behind to clear them out allowing the 6th man to nod it in unopposed. It's a massive rule/ref interpretation loophole that no-one seems to be calling out.
Again, the delivery and execution is great. I just don't think it's fair contest because it goes against both the letter and the spirit of the rules, but for some reason the refs don't seem to care.
What is also concerning is that this encourages even more rough play within the penalty box. Corner kicks seem like a relic of the past, if we are going along the trajectory of how fifa likes to see the game as: freeflowing entertainment.
Are you okay my friend
Yeah I think Arsenal have grown tired of being victims of this kind of play and are now delivering with hilarious reactions from the same people who used to tell them to harden up.
@@christmascritters3691 Arsenal used to get bullied on 'normal' set pieces, so I totally get changing the profile of their player to be bigger and stronger. But this problem with this method is that its effectively unstoppable because the refs aren't calling the fouls. Even the biggest and strongest defenders can't do much when someone surprise barges them in the back. Arsenal aren't outmuscling other teams, they're fouling them.
Exactly this.👍@@christmascritters3691
Wonder how they will be unstoppable in video 😅games
So what you're saying is that without set-pieces... it would be Jover for Arsenal?
All sweet but how is blocking the goalie like that even legal?
Wouldn't consider pinning the GK a set-piece 😂
Wait...are Arsenal actually sponsored by and drinking PRIME??? That's bonkers! 2:40
Saka injured = season over
At 701. An arsenal player runs into the goal keeper deliberately. Can't do that.
I hard disagree that this is hard for a team to learn.
They are professional players. This is easily handled in American football and basketball regularly.
Not hard to learn, but hard or at least way harder to master.
Yep... They r too good...
Monaco's tactic is very clever. It's high-risk but effective. By threatening Arsenal with a quick counter, they reduced the number of players in the box, thus reducing the chaos. But the risk is high if your remaining defenders aren't good at marking players one-on-one.
surely be forced to have more of your small quick defenders having to look after these half-way line guys ends up INCREASING your relative height advantage in the 6 yard box, gving you fewer ball attackers, but more relative advantage over the team defending the corner?
The thing is, broadly speaking, fewer defenders and attackers in the box is better for the attacking team. That's why teams usually put all 11 in the box nowadays.
So whilst it *might* help counter this particular tactic, it makes you more vulnerable to a more traditional corner routine. If it continues, I wouldn't be surprised if Arsenal add another corner tactic, because if someone has to man-mark Gabriel with fewer zonal markers, they're still going to lose out most of the time.
Sooner or later the refs will see that arsenal are abusing the rules and start giving fouls for their rugby blocks on set pieces
Fingers crossed
Just put two lads on Gabriel
The Arsenal players are just blocking the opponents and the keeper from taking the ball which is a foul but referees aren't whistling
cry more
What about everton 0-0 draw
All prem teams watching this now
It's a foul. But they use this loophole same as mini DRS, flexible wings, flexible floor in F1 recently, they gained benefit from it then it got banned.
Standing your ground is not a foul. Joelinton wasn’t penalised for a two handed push in the back on Gabriel last year, the manager was charged for speaking on it, and an ‘independent’ panel justified it. We didn’t set this threshold, but we’ve had to adapt to it.
Stoke
How about how United are so bad at corners
Small players without no fight and bad coaching. Pretty simple really. Hopefully Amorim gets a handle on it soon but he probably won't have time to really focus on it till the summer
I wish my parents love me like arsenal love their set pieces
Would have been nice to look at how Liverpool defend corners against Arsenal, given that they are the only Premier League team not to concede a corner to them.
How to defend against Arsenal's corners: Studs
It's nothing special
Tom Garrat taught us how to stop it!!!!
God forbid a team be gpod at something lol
15 seconds ago was wild
Half of the goals are impeding the goal keeper and should be a foul.
Y'all nerds😂
As hard to defend as doing what???? 🤣😭😭
Messilily...😅
Newcastle are better at them
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes Newcastle are the new Set piece FC
6:42 How is this not impeding the goalkeeper? Saliba has the goalkeeper impeded Right?
answer is they foul the keeper
Yeah they always foul the GK
Now all GK's are injured
Not here as a fan of Arsenal. Have not watched the video. Just here to tell you how stupid it is to have a red banner around your videos. It basically shows every video on your channel as already been watched from a non subscriber perspective. Food for thought and pm if your marketing team wants anymore advice.
Arsenal would have 3 points without set pieces this season. All they gotta do to defend that is do what they do in rugby and lift the gk up to catch the ball or they could use their teammates shoulder to jump higher or better yet…get a running start from inside the goal but no one thinks of this even though they make millions of dollars, that’s insane.
Because they stand on top of the opposition keeper and get away with it
Yeah they did it once in 20 corners and that's how they scored their last 20 set piece goal
Can you delete this video
Arsenal are no more in the title race 😅😅 they are in top four race
their all at the back post thing is so annoying ^^ is it really nessesary, why arent other teams doing it
Was first here🎉🎉
Near first!