Defending corners

[funny old game 1]

After the "was he wasn''t" he fouled in our last home game I watched John Ruddy closely today at corners today, I was surprised at the lack of protection from defenders, at 3 corners in the second half he was left to fend of the attentions of Antonio & deal with the ball without much protection at all. I think when a opposition player stands on our keeper we should counter that with someone to bully the guy out of the way, just an observation

[mrs miggins 0]

Agree, we need to protect Ruddy whilst teams think he''s going to fumble the ball. 2 defenders need to push the attacker on the GK away.

[NCFC198 2]

Forest had obviously seen the ruddy error and looked to exploit it again.

[Shyster 0]

[quote user="mrs miggins"]Agree, we need to protect Ruddy whilst teams think he''s going to fumble the ball. 2 defenders need to push the attacker on the GK away.[/quote]

And likely give away a penalty.

Yeah, good thinking.

[CANARYKING 707]

The opposition don''t need to worry about defending ours, most of them never reach the penalty box, really infuriates me.

[funny old game 1]

There are ways of preventing a forward blocking a keeper without assaulting the guy,