True, we have looked a little more solid with him around, but we still give away so many corners. Is there a way of comparing the corners conceded by each team, 'cause I'm sure our numbers aren't normal.
I was saying this last week, I seriously think we aren't that bad at defending corners it's that we concede so damn many of them. I'd like to see a percentage comparison against other teams of corners conceded to goals conceded from corners.
Found what we're looking for....
The columns are:
Team
Goals scored from corners
Goals conceded from corners
The aggregate
The total corners conceded.
As you can see, we're shit at all scoring and conceding. Only Wolves have conceded more corners than us, yet have only 6 goals against as opposed to our 11. We're also the only team not to score from a corner!
ManC... 12... 2... +10... 118... corners conceded
WBA.... 6... 1... +5... 152
ManU... 7... 3... +4... 105
Nrwc... 7... 3... +4... 159
Chel... 4... 0... +4... 86
Evet... 5... 2... +3... 119
Sund... 4... 1... +3... 147
Wolv... 6... 5... +1... 178
Spur... 5... 4... +1... 126
Bbun... 8... 8... 0... 172
Stke... 4... 5... -1... 168
Arse... 3... 4... -1... 98
Lpoo... 5... 7... -2... 99
Fham... 3... 5... -2... 134
Newc... 1... 3... -2... 126
QPR.... 3... 6... -3... 151
Swan... 3... 6... -3... 156
Wgan... 3... 6... -3... 153
Bton... 3... 10... -7... 172
AVil... 0... 11... -11... 173
Apologies for the formatting.
So to sum up, we concede the second highest amount of corners, concede almost twice as many goals as any other team from corners, score NO GOALS from a corner, have no set piece specialist as such, an isolated and no injured front man, shit football and a sever lack of attacking intent and it's not hard to see why we're genuinely rubbish.
McLeish has to go!