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Set pieces · Set-piece study · 8 min

The near-post routine 200 goals have in common

Two hundred corners that produced goals, and the thing most of them share is not the delivery.

Rui Barbosa · 22 August 2026 · 12 clips

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The blocking pattern. Three runners, one of whom never intends to reach the ball.

Key moments

  1. —

    The screen

    Runner three arrives first and stops. He is not attacking the ball.

  2. —

    The gap

    Two yards open at the near post because a defender has been held.

  3. —

    The finish

    Runner one arrives into space that was manufactured, not found.

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