“Goals from corners have been arriving at an unprecedented rate in the Premier League this season. The importance of these set pieces has been rising in recent years, and has reached its highest impact on the attacking game in the 2025-26 campaign. Since it began last August, teams have been focusing on a specific type of corner: an in-swinger towards a crowded six-yard box. This has decreased the diversity of corners in English football’s top flight but innovative routines which don’t solely depend on putting it into this new mixer do still exist. …”
NY Times/The Athletic (Video)