This outswinging floated cross below takes a long time to land while the ball moves from out to in, so let’s track the targeted player and his marker, highlighted below, to know exactly what the problem is. They target this far area to be far away from the zonal players, against zonal or hybrid systems, and also to easily win the first contact against man markers, against man-marking and hybrid systems, by causing an orientation problem to the markers because it is difficult to keep tracking the ball and the attacker at the same time over this long distance the ball takes, especially when they use outswinging and floated crosses. Firstly, we need to know two things: why and how they target this area.
The first tactic we will explain is targeting the area after the far post. In this tactical analysis, we will discuss Dundee’s different tactics in the offensive corner kicks, showing how diverse they are using several tactics that achieve the principle of variation to surprise the opponent. One of the most distinctive things about Dundee is the offensive corner kicks, as they are the highest goalscorers from corner kicks in the league with six goals out of a total of 20 goals, meaning that their percentage of goals from corners is 30 % of their total goals, which is a considerable number.
