Daniel Farke, the manager of Leeds United, has addressed the Whites’ subpar comeback from corners in the second part of the season as they look to catch up to Leicester City and Ipswich Town.
Leeds United has had a difficult time scoring from corners in the second half of this compelling Championship campaign. As the club pushes for automatic promotion, its failure to convert dead-ball situations into points has been a major source of discontent.
Following Saturday’s devastating home loss to Blackburn Rovers, Whites manager Daniel Farke was questioned about his team’s poor performance from attacking corners and responded, “It has to do with the players on the pitch,” Leeds Live reported. We scored a lot of goals from set pieces in the start of the season, particularly from corners.
Pascal Struijk was frequently involved, but he isn’t there right now. Liam Cooper was involved, although he isn’t now competing. Sam Byram participated, but I also made the decision to play more right-back with Junior Firpo, Archie Grey, or Connor Roberts in recent games.”It also has to do with the ability to attack wide free kicks and corners. Even while we have a lot of great players on the pitch, such as Willy Gnonto, Daniel James, and Cree Summerville, they are not natural set piece threats, so if they are in the starting lineup, we are a little short in terms of height and quality to attack corners.
“We work on different solutions and try to do something out if,” the player said. “We know the record and have looked at the amount of goals Joe Rodon, Ethan Ampadu, and Georginio Rutter have scored in their careers out of corner kicks, and you won’t find many.” I believe that we came within a hair’s breadth of Blackburn a couple of times, and Ilia [Gruev] had a solid opportunity, but we have to work on our corner.
“Aerial threats and being proficient at set pieces are always key topics, so I take this in mind a little bit when I work in the transfer market. Though Pascal’s absence is unfortunate right now, it is unquestionably something we need to add a bit more.
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