Our goal kicks

[SwissBlade]

I understand the thought process and reasoning, but I'd also love to see some data that involves ball retention, turnover, goals scored and goals conceded... because I don't think it actually offers anything, unless you are head and shoulders above your opponents.

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What I don't get is doing it at levels where players just aren't comfortable enough on the ball to do it, it looks comical. I see it in Junior football and even my god-daughters u9s do it... and they almost end up conceding every time.

Yeah, that i don’t know. Obviously the data would need to compare to prior to the rule change to understand if it’s effective. It certainly wasn’t effective for us last season for obvious reasons but also because we often did it wrong by playing the ball to the defender rather than keeper

 

[loyalblade95]

Those goal kicks against Sunderland are the ideal way of getting out of a high press, provided that you have a striker winning the ball near their high defensive line and either flicking it on or holding it up.

It worked more in the second half than it did in the first as the ball went over their defenders so Oné and Hamer could get higher up the pitch with the ball.