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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One important thing is that the ball is not just thrown in there randomly, there is always a few potential targets they aim at. It depends on the strategy, but usually the defending team have a shitload of people covering the player(s) who has the most capability to score a head goal. That in itself is a very trained skill, it’s not easy to get the timing and the head movement to direct the ball correctly – don’t forget that the ball also spins on the way there. And not to mention the physical advantage. Ofc, taller players score most of the head goals (at least from corners).
And also, the attacking team generally won’t have that many people there because there’s this thing called counterattacks. If the attacking team loses possession while having a lot of people attacking, they’ll have to run **behind** the opponent’s attackers, what makes reganing the possession a lot harder. So they’d eventually reach your goal with a numerical advantage (with your defenders behind them)
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