Comparative analysis of the top six and bottom six teams’ corner kick strategies in the 2015/2016 English Premier League

Ben William Strafford, Adam Smith, Jamie Stephen North and Joseph Antony Stone

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2019, vol. 19, issue 6, 904-918

Abstract: This study compared the corner kick strategies employed by the top six and bottom six teams across 120 matches of the 2015/2016 English Premier League Season. In total, 2,303 corner kicks were examined by univariate analyses (individual χ2) and bivariate analyses with contingency tables (χ2 and association measures). Top six teams favoured an outswinging delivery, whilst the bottom six teams favoured inswinging deliveries (p

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2019.1677379

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