Episode 810 - Corner Boys

Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast

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Sports & Recreation, Football, Premier League, Arsenal, Gunners, Soccer, Sports, Sport

4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode I'm joined by Kaya Kaynak of Football London to discuss Arsenal's 2-0 win over Man Utd at the Emirates on Wednesday evening. There's a lot of chat about set-pieces after two goals from corners brought us three points, but have the Gunners and Mikel Arteta shifted the perception of scoring in this way? Why has there been such snobbery about set-pieces down the years, especially as the impact they can have is obvious? We also talk about the importance of the win in the context of the title race, an outstanding William Saliba performance, Gabriel Martinelli, Jakub Kiwior and lots more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog Arscast right here on Arsblog.com.
0:29.7	How are you? Hope you well. Thank you very much indeed. As always for being here. It is the morning after a 2-0 win over Manchester United in the Premier League
0:40.3	last night. Two goals from corners, lots of focus on Arsenal's strength from set pieces.
0:47.8	It's being dismissed in some quarters by fans of opposition teams as industrial. We are set-piece FC, corner FC, but who cares?
0:58.0	Ask any one of them if they would prefer to win a game 2-0 by scoring from a couple of corners
1:03.6	or, you know, being like Manchester United and losing a game 2-0 because you can't defend
1:09.5	against a team that are really good at corners.
1:12.5	I think we know which one they'd pick. On TV here last night in Ireland, the game was on
1:17.6	Premier Sports. I know a lot of people had it on Amazon in the UK, but on Premier Sports.
1:22.3	Co-commentator was former Republic of Ireland international Gary Breen, and he was talking a bit about Declan
1:29.1	Rice and about his pre-corner-take routine. He said at one point, he talked about Rice,
1:35.1	look, he's doing his breathing exercises. And it got me wondering a bit, you know, is there a
1:39.7	pre-corner-take routine? There's a lot of visualization in the psychology of sport, you know,
1:46.0	I know in golf or tennis, that trying to picture the shot you want to play before you play it
1:52.2	can often be beneficial. Now, I know those are individual sports, but Rice's role when he's
1:58.7	taking a corner is individual. He's on his own.
2:02.0	It's up to him to make sure that ball comes in with the right speed, the right trajectory, the right whip, all of those things which make it so difficult for the opposition to deal with.
2:11.8	I just had this idea of Declan Rice visualizing and sort of moving away from where he actually is physically and
2:18.6	visualizing and seeing himself about to take the set piece watching from on high with a little
2:26.0	song, you know, a little piece of music going around and around in his head to keep him focused.
2:31.2	That's me in the corner. And then whoof, he just gets it in there.
2:35.7	And an Arsenal player, whether it's Jury and Timber or William Saliba or whoever,
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