Or just play it short and pass it around a bit beforte launching an attack

You should count yourselves lucky, at least you guys can defend set pieces. Every time we concede a corner or free kick I need a clean set of pants.

Gibbs needs to practice to cross a ball properly.

Been saying this about our corners for years

May as well play it Short than risk losing it in the box

Before mata and do Maria were bought in I'm fairly confident a corner of ours had not beaten the first man since about 2004.

Horrific that a professional cannot hit a dead ball reasonably well.

We don't have the height or power to be dangerous at set plays.

Also our deliveries are pretty atrocious

What do you expect? Mertesacker is the only aerial threat in the team now that Giroud is injured. Every other team has at least 4/5 6"2+ players

We've not had a good set piece taker since Van Persie, one who can put pace and zip on the ball.

Ozil just cannot take corners/fks, Santi's are mostly slow lobs, and Sanchez get one right out of every three taken.

Personally Chamberlain is the best set piece taker in our team, usually has pace and zip on the ball.

Theo was decent also.

And to think when we had Bould, Adams and Keown in the side set plays were one of our most dangerous assets. We clearly don't practise dead ball situations nearly enough, if at all.

What exactly is going on in this thread? We're all very politely slagging off our own teams! What is wrong with insulting each other?

Spurs are the worse.....its frankly embarrassing how poor pros can be at striking a dead ball......

Man utd must be the worst apart from SAF last season in charge we are dreadful and yes RVP scored the winner against Arsenal last season at OT from a corner but that probably was one of our only corner goals last season.

I don't think the players in the box is the issue. Its so frustrating that a professional footballer can't beat the first man!