I find it quite amazing that we have conceded around 14 goals from set pieces, one of the worst in the league, and your conclusion is:
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If they are and they can't implement it on the pitch it infers there is either A) a problem with the players not being good enough, or B) the coaching is lacking something.
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The way I see it, you got rightly called out for making an absurd suggestion that he play a youth player, and have tried to change your tune to fit.Not, instead of biting immediately, read the replies and see if anyone else has said the same as what you think. That's what most people do.
Then again you don't understand it. What we are doing by instruction isn't remotely flexible.
there certainly were not many positives from today. If anything I think the scoreline papers over the many many fucking negatives.
You're a bit touchy aren't you?
Was Vio really in charge of defensive set pieces? Something tells me he only did attacking but not sure on this.It's funny how memories work, I remember us being good at attacking set pieces under Conte, with Peresic getting assists but I don't remember us being great at defending them.
Defending set pieces is Tottenham's Achilles' heel
Antonio Conte believes his team concede too many goals from dead-ball situations - it has proven their undoing time and again this season
Maybe Vio wasn't with us then.
lol fucking lol make your mind up.
But again even if they're to stick to the zonal marking then they're clearly not following the plan either. There's a reason to zonal marking and it's based on the theory that every player defends all dangerous positions of the box. So in that case how do teams score from the 6 yard box? Players have the responsibility to defend it so how is that not on the players as well? Surely someone has the job of defending the near post of the 6 yard box. The fact is they did follow instructions and it didn't work, they conceded twice again from it.
I've made my mind up ages ago.
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Some clubs have specific set piece coaches as Spurs did last season under Antonio Conte with Gianni Vio, but Postecoglou does not favour such an approach.
"I've never had a specific set-piece coach. I’ve always had someone who's responsible for that. I always think it’s better if that’s somebody who’s a part of the coaching staff because then that’s an extension of how we play our football," he said. "I don't separate set-pieces from everything else we do, in terms of the team we want to be. It all hopefully links in.
"Here we’ve split the roles between Mile [Jedinak] and Ryan Mason in terms of attacking and defensive set-pieces and they put a lot of work into it with the analysis staff. I'm sure every club does. Some have gone down the specialised route which I understand. It’s just it's not how I work. I always try to create a collective environment for everything we do, so that nothing is separated. I wouldn’t feel comfortable bringing in specialists for one particular area. Just for the way I work more than anything else."
"Delivery is vital. Last week wasn’t great. Madders is usually good at them but I thought we had a lot and I know Mase was pretty disappointed with that," said the Tottenham head coach. "There are always areas you can improve and those guys practise. It does help. As much as the organisation, you still need somebody who can execute. If you’ve got, and I'm going back a bit here, David Beckham on a free-kick, you don’t need a set-piece coach."
At the other end of the pitch, Jedinak has taken on the club's defensive set piece work and Postecoglou believes the fear factor plays its part with his young compatriot.
"I coached him and now he’s a coach in his own right. He’s very disciplined and is very well-organised," he said. " I just thought with him not being out of the game too long ago that he has a good understanding of what’s there, and he’s a scary bloke, mate. People are scared to go up against him, I figured that’s good criteria."
One area of Spurs' defensive set piece work that came under scrutiny recently was goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario being targeted by opposition players trying to impede his ability to get to the ball. However, Postecoglou believes that the Italian has adapted to the physical nature of the Premier League and the officials have got wise to what was happening to him.
"I don’t think it’s been a real issue for us. It was in that game [against Everton], but I didn’t feel the officiating around the game...it’s been interesting to see since then, it seems like they’ve become more vigilant with how much contact there is in the penalty box, so we kind of were the test case maybe for that," said the Tottenham boss.
"It's not easy for a goalkeeper coming into the Premier League from a league outside. I don’t think there is any league like the Premier League and the pressure it puts on a goalkeeper from the physical aspect. He’s handled it really, really well. The rest of it is just us dealing with defensive set-pieces. For the most part, we’ve handled them pretty well. I don't think the club as a whole last year handled them too well. We've definitely improved in that area."
Well regardless of whoever was in charge of defending set pieces, it's obviously been a problem for a few years.
But it doesn't make it any less of an issue if he says we're shit at defending set pieces in a press conference. It probably just adds more pressure to the next few we face and lets every other manager know where to start planning. For me, press conferences/media responses shouldn't be about pacifying angry fans so I don't see the problem with him playing this down.
