Tonight, Charlton scored both their goals from corners, but if you analyse our two styles carefully, you will notice that they spread their players about; some far post, some near post, some in the centre and some on the edge of the box. However, for our corners, we were all gathered in the centre, which effectively means that we have just one place to aim our corners for; a rather congested place at that.

By taking several different positions in the penalty area, and just outside it, we would also be taking defenders out from the centre to mark our players and therefore open up the goalmouth and provide us with more options.

This has long been a gripe of mine, but I feel it makes sense. How many of you remember Nigel Gleghorn scoring several far post headers by being available to come in from a wide angle?

I feel it's an area of our attacking play that needs looking at.

He delivered a nice ball from corners as well that Jensen fella ( I think it was him anyway ).

Their second was a freak goal too, remember!

The trouble with the second was that we had, as usual, 11 men in the box, appauling. For a team who is supposed to have a superb defensive mind (us) we make the mistake of piling bodies int he box leaving ourselves open to hellish rebounds and our lads getting int he way of Maik Taylor.
The second goal was a prime example, the shot from Holland seemed to take deflection after deflection to confuse Taylor and end up in the net, its such an almost amateurish mistake but one which we made most of last season and have started to again. We also had no man ready to initiate a quick break should Taylor collect the ball and throw it out straight away until the final few corners where Dugarry found some great space, but Taylor wasn't watching.
Ah well, hindsight is a wonderful thing non?