How to defend or mark in a corner: the right positioning

How to defend yourself or score in a corner? The corner and the fatal weapon in some and unnecessary weapons fatally in others. What are the resources to be drawn from a corner? How to pull them well, but also how to defend this phase of the game stopped? This is what I offer with this article.

Defense situation

Les corners They are a great danger to your defense. It would be annoying to take a goal on this type of action while your team is solid in defensive actions and fought for 70 minutes so as not to let the opponent pass. Some rely on it to defend others are organized.

First of all These situations must be worked on training. No random room to approximation! The goalkeeper must be the person who places the defense, the players must obviously know their role and take immediately. A reminder in the vagus that constitutes this recovery time may be necessary. A constant:

1) A player at each post. (Statistics show that a player in each post could have prevented over 30% of the objectives marked in a corner)

2) A player located as in the diagram to cut short trajectories and failed corners.

Two solutions are applicable: direct marking and defense in the area.

Defense in one against a It is the easiest to implement. Each player holds an opposing player as close as possible. We depart again to the goal and look at the player.

Defense in the area It implies that your players know perfectly where they have to put on. On the 6 M line, place your three best players. An opposite every post and one in the axis. Place two players among the holes out of the previous 3; Players are positioned between 6m and 16.5 m. You can put a player in opposition near the corner shooter. Do not forget to leave a player at the entrance to the surface to allow recovery.

Attack situation

We will ask for the elementary rules below: Forget the outgoing corners ! However, the statistics detected in the football of large organizations (opt) reveal that they are used in the same proportion as the return corners. However, you should know that the percentage of goals marked on this type of corner is only 25% when the corner in curves gets 75%. I’m not even talking about the corner played in two without centers, which is useless if not to save time. In short, instead of trying to change your way of drawing angles, Bet systematically on the corner in very effective corner and focus on your work on it!

Choose your two best shooters one for each side and never derogate from the change. The ball must be eliminated hard or that dives struck. The contact surface of the ball will not be the same, not even the arrival on the surface.

Two obligations: A player just before the first post To cut the trajectories e One in the area near the goalkeeper. Mobile and non -static must disturb the goalkeeper concentration with its presence, but also to graze a released, pushed or badly negotiated ball. For others, determine a starting area and an arrival area. No space for improvisation!

Your players should not be static and wait for the ball on site. Position them at the entrance of the surface so thatthey arrive launched on the surface And cut the trajectory of the balloon. The corner has only the name of the name. (Only the ball is stopped)

I see 6 different options:

– Place the ball between the first post and the goalkeeper

– Strike returning to the second

– Strong time for a player in the middle of the race

– standing the second on the 5.50 m line.

– Short before the first post for a detour.

The only corner that can be brought to two will be the one in which a player has launched to support the corner shooter as in the front diagram. The passage time will offer a short period in which the opponent’s concentration will be focused on the other side of the field and therefore your attackers will have to take the opportunity to stand out. The player who receives the ball is launched, so his center must be tense in the area.

You understood that a corner is far from a lottery deal. As an entity, you have to choose an organization for your defense and one for your attack and stay there. It is in the constancy and repetition of these situations that the rigor of your players will come and the efficiency of your team. You absolutely must work on these situations in training by taking time to explain what you want by giving instructions and parameters of reference to your players. Here are the foundations to know to find out how to defend yourself or mark in a corner.

20 minutes of work on corner situations during training can avoid an objective package and offer you many other opportunities.