AFC Bournemouth head coach Gary O’Neil has confessed that the Cherries must vastly enhance their defensive report subsequent season and work will proceed over the rest of this marketing campaign to attempt to make issues higher earlier than some extra complete solutions could be discovered throughout pre-season.
AFC Bournemouth’s frailties from set-pieces has been evident all season and has did not be addressed beneath Gary O’Neil’s regime.
The Cherries have conceded 27 instances from set-pieces greater than every other membership within the prime flight of English soccer.
The breakdown comes by way of six penalties and an additional 21 targets direct from set performs, failing to defend corners, free-kicks and throw-ins.
If there was a further breakdown that included crosses from open-play, the Cherries wouldn’t be wanting nice from this statistic both.
O’Neil instructed the Each day Echo…
“We’ve struggled with defending balls within the field, which is why the West Ham recreation was so difficult for us, as a result of they put quite a bit in there.
“We’ve got struggled with that this season. We’re clearly conscious of it, as I’m positive all you guys are, and one thing we have to enhance.
“However I’m hopeful that we will put some work in now, week-to-week, as we’re, however then we will put issues in place for subsequent season to make us a lot stronger in that space.”
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Matt Stevenson stated…
I’ve put in two graphs associated to xG conceded. The primary exhibits the entire xG divided into open play and set items for a reference.. Unsurprisingly, AFCB are one of many groups with the very best xG conceded (third behind Everton and Leeds). Nevertheless, when it comes to the break up of xG conceded that’s set items, AFCB are solely marginally worse than the opposite groups, we’ve got 26% with the weighted common of the opposite groups being 25%.
