Set Pieces

[SuperSheva7 0]

we have a lot of excellent freekick takers at Chelsea which is great, but like Ollie said, Lampsy wont leave them. i really hope he will, when he comes back. we are horrible at corners, we should really score more considering we've got Ballack and Alex not to mention JT. I guess Belletti should just take them, seeing as no one else's really any good. and with pens Lampsy is going great, Sheva and Micha are awesome as well, i can finally say we dont have a problem

[Becky 67]

Corners- just give them to Belletti. He seems to be the only one with a good and fairly consistent delivery each time he takes set pieces, his corner and free kick against Fulham helped set up both goals for example.

Free kicks in shooting distance- Ballack, he has more precision and (although the wall was poor, they did leave a huge gap for him) he scored one against Villa and I can't remember the last time Frank scored a free kick.

If it's further away then Alex.

Just don't give it to SWP. Or there's no point our defenders going up into the opposition penalty area at all because it won't pass the first man.

[Guest Lampards Bitch]

We are absolute pants at set pieces for ages now. Time and time again the first man is never missed. I watch other football teams and they fizz the ball in, especially corners, which are dangerous and anything can happen. We seem to float the ball in which is fucking usless. I agree Ballack should be taking more of the free kicks. I really dont know what has happend to Lampard's taking of set pieces but it hasnt been right for a couple of seasons to be fair.

[Steve 10,227]

yea after we won back to back, i cant remember many opportunities where we have scored from corners or free kicks, we used to be so threating when it came to them but for a while now i just don't see us as a threat from them situations anymore..

[Aesthetic Relic 301]

Watching the game last night.....

Malouda and Joe Cole were pish at corners last night. Belletti on the other hand was hitting the danger zone everytime.

What pissed me off is seeing Riccy and Alex march for ward for the ball to hit the first man and get thumped up the pitch.

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

Watching the game last night.....

Malouda and Joe Cole were pish at corners last night. Belletti on the other hand was hitting the danger zone everytime.

What pissed me off is seeing Riccy and Alex march for ward for the ball to hit the first man and get thumped up the pitch.

Bellettis corners are definitely an improvement, and I was sure Ballacks free kick was going in!

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I agree with Tri-Blue's post last page.

Its a waste when the ball doesn't clear the first man, but Belletti is cracking at whipping them in. Problem is that Grant likes to alternate him and Paulo all the while.

[Steve 10,227]

Belletti has been a big improvement since he started here, his corners are so much more threatining then most of the corner takers in our squad, joe coles mostly end up hitting the defender barly getting into the 18yrd box which he needs to work on.. i say let belletti keep taking them for a while hes doing really well

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Its all fine and dandy saying that, but if I know Grant, he'll play Ferreira against the Spurs.

[Ollie 4,400]

Belletti had a great game on tuesday, maybe his best game for us so far so i think he'll play against the yidos. Still......can never be too sure.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Whenever someone has a good game under Grant, they are usually dropped the next game or mysteriously pick up injuries

[True_Blue 469]

Whenever someone has a good game under Grant, they are usually dropped the next game or mysteriously pick up injuries

Jews work in mysterious ways

[Layla 0]

Lol!Eeeek with the dropping them dont let him become Rafa lol.

Yeh our corners were way better Tues defo Belletti to take and defo not waste our time with short corners they dont work for us