I’ve been watching the sport for years now and it still baffles me why corners have a such low-return percentage for the attacking team. How is it that the ball almost always finds the head of a defending player?
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>How is it that the ball almost always finds the head of a defending player?
You’re right that only around 1 in 20-25 corners results in a goal, but it’s not because defenders almost always head the ball out. The defending team has the big advantage that they have a goalkeeper who can use his hands, and the keeper catches or punches away a decent percentage of corners. Then the attacking team is able to make contact with a reasonably high percentage of corners, but many of them miss the goal and go out of bounds, end up blocked by a defender, are saved by the keeper, or skip away harmlessly.
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