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Ayo Jesuyinka's avatar

Hopefully, in the future, we will understand how they determined that Rice has excellent deliveries on corners. Who would have thought? It’s a shame Southgate didn't maximize his resources in Rice and Saka.

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Scott Willis's avatar

I would assume it was on the training ground that they were able to make that determination

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Bill Ireland's avatar

Belated comment—yes, 100%. The volume of attempts we see in games is a fraction of repetitions in practice. It’s like trying to judge how effective a shot stopper a goalie is based on the limited number of shots we see in games—as a fan, no matter how informed or knowledgeable we believe we are, we just do not have the opportunity to see the higher volume for corner deliveries or goalkeeping, or to really judge the skill level of the players. We can have opinions but we do not really have the data necessary.

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