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Pep Guardiola praises 'inspired' team meetings driving Man City improvement
09.02.2022 - 01:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Pep Guardiola is delighted by Manchester City's improvement in dead ball situations but wants his team to be even better.
City actually lost their set-piece coach, Nicolas Jover, to Arsenal at the end of last season, but former Under-18s manager Carlos Vicens assumed those duties when he stepped up to the first team staff and works on those situations with analysts Carles Planchart and Harry Dunn.
The change this season has been visible as City have transformed themselves into some of the best in the top-flight; the equaliser at Southampton and the goal to take the lead against Fulham both came from set-piece routines.
More importantly, the feeling of the team being better at both attacking and defending set-pieces is borne out by the numbers in the Premier League compared to both other teams and previous seasons under Guardiola.
Only Liverpool (12) have scored more than City's 10 goals from set-pieces so far and the Blues are the only side in the division to have only conceded one goal from set-pieces. Their net record is the best in the league. This team also boasts the best record under Guardiola at the Etihad, amounting for nearly one in every five goals scored (18 per cent) and responsible for just seven per cent of goals conceded.
Guardiola put the progress down to the way the messages are communicated to the players.
"It’s the best season offensively in terms of corners and free kicks so far, it’s the best," he said. "They are doing an incredible job in that department. They are so consistent, so clear.
"We just take a look and do it simple, in the right moments not too much complicated, and [Carlos] is an incredibly good communicator, the meeting about the set pieces is so inspired, so clear and clever. I think
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