Strikerless » Set Pieces

Short corners remain a neglected aspect of the game despite a slew of improvements and innovations appearing to enhance the beautiful game. While they frequently frustrate stadium supporters whe...

https://strikerless.com/2023/11/12/fm24-short-corner-love/

Set pieces in football, and thus in Football Manager, have received much attention and study. But what about the innocuous throw-in? Apart from when a team develops a long throw-in programme (see...

https://strikerless.com/2023/01/08/my-throw-in-setups-for-fm23/

Goalkeepers who end up on the score sheet are often regarded as glitches or abnormalities in the matrix of football nature – and they are, in a way. There’s something delightfully depraved ab...

https://strikerless.com/2022/10/06/goalscoring-goalies-the-legendary-rojen-roy/

penalty area, where the goalkeepers usually remained transfixed, allowing one of your players to score an easy goal. It's not functioning very well this year, unfortunately. The short throw-in on...

https://strikerless.com/2022/01/05/the-short-throw-overload/

Over the past decades, we have seen ample evidence of the long throw-in and its effectiveness. Most notably, Rory Delap's bullet throws long proved a useful piece of weaponry for Stoke City. L...

https://strikerless.com/2020/12/20/bully-ball-the-human-trebuchet/

Now that we have all been sucked into the enslaving obsession we all know FM can become if the game is good enough, it is time to look at another yearly seasonal tradition; the hunt for superb se...

https://strikerless.com/2020/12/05/the-corner-setup-that-became-a-throw-in-routine/

Set piece plays are an essential aspect of the game. If you are unable to break down a particularly sturdy defence, a well-executed set piece may be all you need to pry open the defence. Hell, yo...

https://strikerless.com/2020/03/23/breaking-the-deadlock-with-set-pieces/

Some scientific discoveries come about after painstaking, goal-oriented lab work finally yields the result that a researcher is trying to find. But many of the most incredible discoveries in the ...

https://strikerless.com/2019/01/25/the-accidental-set-piece-routine/

Short corners have to combat a negative reputation in world football. Just as a back-pass is seen as an inherently negative manoeuvre, corners which are not crossed directly into the penalty a...

https://strikerless.com/2018/11/29/short-corners-my-plan-b/

We are all afraid of it, and I am fairly certain we have experienced it as well. The dying seconds of the game have started, your team is up by one goal, and the opposition is about to take a cor...

https://strikerless.com/2018/11/19/defending-corners-and-other-set-pieces/