The Corner Routine Aston Villa Used Against West Ham

Aston Villa used a very interesting idea against Westham to take the lead from a well planned corner routine, let's dig into it

Westham defended with 6 players zonal marking ( Black ), while the blue ones were man markers except Fornals, who had a double role, supporting his mates against their markers and to be ready to initiate the counter.

Aston Villa tried to manipulate the first line of this scheme by putting 3 players behind the zonal line and overloading Hammers' man-markers. - McGinn made a run to drag Johnson out to free the 1st contact area.

Then, D. Luiz moved towards Scamacca to pick him, and this made their Brazilian free to win the 1st contact.

Konsa ran at the back post and tapped in Fabianski's rebound, in meanwhile, Watkins, Chambers & Ings stayed in their positions to pin their markers,-but the goal ruled out, the ball bends out of play before Konsa finds the back of the net.

At the end, this corner routine could make the difference for Villains, who lost this match 1-0, and this tells you how is the future of set pieces will be