Paksi FC occupy the first place in the Hungarian league, Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with 34 points from 17 matches, a one-point difference from Ferencváros, the second-place holder.
Paksi FC rank third as the strongest attacking line in the league with 32, after Ferencváros, who scored 42 and Fehérvár, who scored 36 goals. They also have the third-best defensive line, conceding 21, after Ferencváros with 19 and Puskás FC with 20.
They also wonder how they scored 11 from corner kicks in the league out of a total of 32 goals, with a percentage exceeding 34%. They are the team that scored the most goals from corner kicks in the league, which highlights their excellence in this aspect.
In this tactical analysis, we will discuss the tactics of Paksi FC in set pieces, especially their offensive corner kicks, under the leadership of their coach, Bognár György, and we will explain how excellent they are in exploiting them despite their simplicity. Still, they use their strengths well by taking advantage of all the factors that increase the likelihood of corner kicks to goals.
Flicks
They are brilliant at using flicks in many different ways. We can summarise the benefit of using flicks generally that you go to win the first touch in a not-well-defended area before the near post. Still, it is difficult to score a goal directly from that distance and body position, giving your back to the goal, so you need to flick the ball to your mates inside the six-yard. When you win the first touch from such a near area, this headed pass causes chaos in the defending system because defenders usually focus on the ball, which is an excellent opportunity for the attackers to escape to get the second touch and all of this chaos is inside the six-yard, so it is so dangerous.
Attacking teams may also use a vital thing to increase their possibility of getting the second touch after the headed pass, which is framing the goal, which means giving instructions to certain players to spread on the near post, the middle and the far post. Lets explain these details in this example.
In the first photo below, the defending team defends with four players in zonal marking, a player in front of them to defend flicks and to go to the short corner, a short-option defender, a rebound defender and three players in man-marking.
You can simply see that there are two attackers free from man markers; one will go to take the flick, and one will stay on the far post to frame the goal. The player who will take the flick starts beside the goalkeeper to target the space behind the flick defender, exploiting the fact that he comes from behind his back. Paksi also put three attackers around the short and rebound area, trying to push this defender high to be ready to help at the short corner.
In the second photo, it is clear that three highlighted players will frame the goal, one on the near post, one in the middle and one on the far post, so the third player gets the headed pass, scoring a goal, as shown in the third and fourth photos.
In the case below, we want to show how diverse they are in using flicks, so you can find below two blue attackers targeting the same area, overloading it to increase their possibility of getting the first touch.
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