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Hodgson: Only Kane can take a corner

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“Harry is the best striker of the ball we have,” Hodgson said. “He’s the one who gives us the best delivery.

“We’ve tried many other players and we don’t get the same level of delivery as we get from Harry.



What an indictment of this squad, if, as Hodge claims, only Harry Kane, a centre forward, possesses the technique to clear the first man at a corner. Absolutely pathetic. It's surely more a sign of Hodgson's stubbornness, as Kane's corners aren't even much good at the best of times.
 
He's also gone on to say they have many players aside from Kane who are good at attacking corners and cites Wayne Rooney as an example. Rooney who has scored 7 goals in five years connecting with a corner, only one of which was a header.
 
Hahahhaahahahaa only Roy could motivate the squad of footballers he picked, by telling them they can't strike a football.
 
Would like to have seen Studge play in the Russia game - I think he would have created a lot more chances and even scored compared to Kane who was average at best.
 
And all because he couldn't take it on the chin that Alan Shearer humiliated him for his dumb ass decision. What a fucking prick he still is.
 
He needs to get Hendo on the pitch then - beauty of a corner for Dier's goal vs Germany the other month
 
PoetryinMotion69 said:
Would like to have seen Studge play in the Russia game - I think he would have created a lot more chances and even scored compared to Kane who was average at best.
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I think thats easy to say after the event. I think I would have started Kane.
Vs Wales perhaps something different. Wales will sit very deep and Sturridge can pick a lock. Im not sure Kane can.
 
I've droned on for a while about the ridiculous fashion for obsessing about placing the ball on the very edge of the corner arc, rather than obsessing with actually striking the ball properly. The art of corner taking has surely never seemed so difficult as in the past couple of years. Far too often the player walks to the corner flag, takes about a minute to sneak the ball a fraction beyond the line, and then belts it straight at the forehead of the defender by the near post. Don't any of them practice these very basic tasks any more??

Having said that, given how ineffectual most of Kane's corner kicks have been, why not use, as Oncey suggested, Lallana, or Milner, or Sterling? Or Hodge could realise that he's preoccupied with the wrong problem: instead of obsessing over who should take a corner, he might focus instead on who should attack it. Neither Smalling nor Cahill looks like he knows what he's doing in the opposition box, and without Kane in there it's not clear who'd benefit if a corner DID arrive in a dangerous space. Maybe they should rely more on short corners and use Milner or Sterling to whip the ball in from a 'better' angle, but this ridiculous use of Kane should stop.

And then there's Dier's free kick: "Eric Dier had not taken a free kick in a game situation for more than four years when he stood over the ball at the Stade Vélodrome on Saturday night".

It makes you wonder if Hodge and Neville actually DO anything in training. It sounds like half of their work is dogmatic repetition and the other half is left to be made up on the hoof in actual games!
 
He depresses me so much, we don't even need a tactical master for this team to do well, just someone with some common sense and a winning mentality. This could be a really enjoyable tournament with the squad England has, instead it'll be insipid, dour, and we'll spend most of the tournament asking what the fuck this dinosaur is up to.
 
It's been a strange deficiency for some years now. Take Gerrard - excellent all-round technique, a glorious passer of a ball, short or medium or long, a player who could volley a ball that's gone slightly behind him, a player who could hit a ball cleanly and powerfully from all angles, etc etc etc. And yet when it came to corners - bloody hell. It's weird. It never used to seem THAT difficult to hit a good corner.
 
gkmacca said:
It's been a strange deficiency for some years now. Take Gerrard - excellent all-round technique, a glorious passer of a ball, short or medium or long, a player who could volley a ball that's gone slightly behind him, a player who could hit a ball cleanly and powerfully from all angles, etc etc etc. And yet when it came to corners - bloody hell. It's weird. It never used to seem THAT difficult to hit a good corner.
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Yeah, it's quite strange. I don't know whether or not players are trying to be too clever with corners; picking out certain players' runs or whatever, in the hope they make that run, and none of the other 10 bodies in the box impede their way. Why not just practice like free kicks? Place the ball, at pace, in the same spot, not too close to the keeper, and let people attack it. Surely that would be a better statistical bet? At least it would get into the box more often.

Mind you, check us out: Liverpool fans discussing the best way to take a corner, like we as a club haven't been the absolute masters of "Another Wasted Corner" for DECADES.

Even the best side I watched regularly were awful at it. The amount of times Beardsley scurried over to take one and every single person in the ground, player and fan, knew what was coming......a short corner.
 
What sort of standard of players are people like Dier, Alli, Lallana, Milner, rooney, Henderson, Sturridge, Barkley etc - If Kane is the only player in the entire squad that can take a set peice?!
 
Pat Nevin did an analysis thing blaming the pitch. Because there is not enough border grass before it transitions into artificial crap which studs are no good on, it hampers the corner takers run up.
 
I'm not convinced. I take perfectly good corners on clapham common, hampered by trees.
 
McAllister was very good at corners and did exactly what was described above.
Left arm back post
Right arm front post
Put it in the same spot again and again and have Hyppia attack that spot.
 
If someone else takes the darn things, we might get only two or three into dangerous areas but at least Kane would be there to have a go at them. If Kane takes them we might get two or three times as many into those areas, but no bugger's going to make anything of them. Trust Hodgson to go for the wrong option - although, in fairness, he's not the only one (Stevie should have been waiting for them in the area rather than taking them for all those years, and I don't care if he demanded to take them).
 
Another thing - Kane was distinctly meh against Russia. If Vardy takes his place, either from the start or as a sub during a game, what happens then?
 
Judge Jules said:
Another thing - Kane was distinctly meh against Russia. If Vardy takes his place, either from the start or as a sub during a game, what happens then?
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Maybe we will refuse to take them, or simply kick the ball straight out for a goalkick

Milner it is
 
Judge Jules said:
Another thing - Kane was distinctly meh against Russia. If Vardy takes his place, either from the start or as a sub during a game, what happens then?
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Roy will ask the players to avoid corners. Or ask Hart to take them as he can 'strike a ball'.

PS Imo every pro footballer should be able to swing in a corner, all it takes is a bit of concentration so how on earth players like Gerrard, Rooney etc. are so distinctively average at it, is well beyond me. Even a set-piece specialist like Christian Eriksen hits more poor corners than good ones.
 
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