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set pieces don't require a lot of practice. What's happened in the Premier
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League is like it was just a strategy change. Basically, teams are crowding the goalkeeper with extra players, more
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players than ever before, and then they're playing in swinging corners. So, a righty from the left side, so it's
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curving in toward the goal. You can just see a massive change. And so goal scoring, I think 3.5% of corner kicks
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led to goals. And this year it was 5%. And you see it directly connected to this strategy change. And it's become
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such a big story in the Premier League that people are like talking about maybe we should change the rules because this
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is not why people love soccer. We don't want this to take up a higher portion of
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the game. But it's also become such a big story that I any team that wants to
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win the World Cup, they should be good at set pieces. They should be creating what one analyst called a meat wall in
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front of the keeper and then just hitting an inswinger into that area.