Santa Fe occupy 11th place in Categoría Primera A Clausura after playing 19 matches with 24 points after finishing the Apertura in the tenth position with 26 points. Hence, they havent had a great season after finishing first in Clausura last term.
Despite this bad season, they have scored the most goals from corner kicks in Categoría Primera A this season with eight goals, with América de Cali, Medellín and Millonarios. They have scored 50 goals in total in Categoría Primera A, in seventh place in the goalscoring ranks, so you can imagine how the situation would be worse without their record in corners because theyve scored 16% of their goals in Categoría Primera A this season, Apertura and Clausura, by corner kicks.
In this tactical analysis, we will discuss how theyve used screens brilliantly against man-marking defending systems, floated crosses and their different tactics in short corners, showing why thats been so successful and also how opponents tried to deal with those ideas.
Unique use of screens
The use of screens has been common against man-marking defending systems all over the world inspired by basketball, but they use screens in a clear, sincere way, so lets remember the definition of a screen then how they use it.
A screen is asking a player to go to his mates marker to catch him, push him or stand against him to free his mate from marking; lets know how they use screens in the below case.
In the first photo, the targeted player is highlighted in red while his mate, who will act as a screen, is highlighted in blue, so the first thing we note about their use of screens is that the screen player starts in the targeted area to empty it for his mate.
In the second photo, the second note is that the screen player starts as the taker moves to giving his back to the ball, giving no care to anything except his mates marker tracking him to stand against him, preventing him from tracking his mate who is the targeted player, as shown in the third photo in which the screen is done, so he gets the ball easily, as shown in the fourth photo.
The result is a goal, as shown below.
In this example, they have a different routi
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