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Because that's what you need to do for zonal marking, if we put players up then you sacrifice someone guarding the near or far post or one of the blockers which would make us very vulnerable from corners.

 

1 player on the front post area to cover the front post or short corner
4 players across the 6 yard box
1 player on the back post
4 blocking the runners

 

I wouldn't say we are any more vulnerable than other sides. Teams might win more headers but they tend to be in less dangerous positions

 

Been vulnerable to the 'short' corner. Conceded a couple and nearly conceded several other times.

 

The thing is, up until the Leyton Orient game, we hadn’t conceded a goal from a corner. So as much as we didn’t like the strategy, you could at least say it worked. then we conceded back to back goals from corners against Leyton Orient an Northampton, an that basically showed us that there is no upside to defending that deep from a corner as the confidence has gone from the players to keep the ball out of the net

 

If we put 2 players up teams would still have 4 or 5 attackers in the box so all the 2 players do on the half way line is allow the attackers a free run at our defenders. Normally attacking teams still leave 1 player on the half way line so all you do is take away 1 or 2 players from the edge of the box with their main attackers in the box. If this didn't work you wouldn't see so many top managers doing it all over Europe. We've also not got the tallest team so man marking on corners would likely leave mismatches in the area.

 

Interestingly I’ve been watching the Accy Leeds match, Leeds brought everyone back to defend their corners. I’m not saying it would be what I’d do but it’s common place now for better or worse.

 

The opposition already leave 1 back so it would only be 1 more. In our set up that would leave one of their best headers of the ball with a run on our defenders.
When was the last time you saw a player left on the half way line create anything resembling a chance? All is does it look like you are doing something. There's a reason why so many teams defend corners like this these days.

 

Wrexham also conceded from a corner so many if he was back McBurnie wouldn't have scored

 

Maybe it's just a Parky thing.