The number of set-pieces a team scores is undoubtedly an important marker, but it's also important to factor in how well teams defend them - and, in terms of overall efficacy, Brentford have been the ...

It started with a codename: ‘Cortland’. To most, a small county in New York. To the University of Sherbrooke’s soccer team in 2008, the trigger word at corner kicks. The Quebec-based players had ...

Between the Lines takes a look at this seasons increase in set-piece goals as clubs up and down the Premier League try to ...

Whenever Harrison Kingston, Morocco’s director of performance analysis, is struggling to recall a specific set-piece routine, there is only one person in world football he turns to. It is James French ...

In Arsenal’s preparations for Wednesday, set-piece coach Nicolas Jover has especially been focusing on how to block Brentford’s most aerially decisive players – namely, Sepp van den Berg – from ...