For years, set-pieces were treated as mere interruptions in the rhythm of football – routine corners, speculative free-kicks, and hopeful long throws that rarely stirred excitement. But somewhere ...

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In 2018, Paul Power published a paper titled "Mythbusting Set-Pieces in Soccer" at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. One of the findings: open-play possessions led to goals 1.1% of the time, ...