The long throw is back in vogue, it seems.<\/p>\n
It was a tactical weapon Rory Delap used to shake up the Premier League after Stoke’s arrival in 2008 – causing havoc by launching the ball into the box.<\/p>\n
And now it is happening more and more in the top flight, with Brentford proving to be the masters of it.<\/p>\n
Against Chelsea on Saturday, Fabio Carvalho scored a late goal following a Kevin Schade long throw to secure a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n
That was the last of a glut of long throws during the game from first Michael Kayode and then Schade.<\/p>\n
Earlier on, Chelsea keeper Robert Sanchez had tipped a Schade long throw over the bar even though nobody had appeared to touch it on the way through.<\/p>\n
It is the seventh goal that the Bees have scored from long throws since the start of last season, five more than other Premier League team.<\/p>\n
It might not be pretty, but it is effective.<\/p>\n
“I felt there’s a little bit of snobbery in the game around scenarios like that,” said Brentford boss Keith Andrews.<\/p>\n
“If the big boys do it, then it seems to be accepted.”<\/p>\n
Asked how to avoid conceding goals from long throws, Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca said: “First of all, try not to concede the throw-in. <\/p>\n
“They have Kayode, Jensen, Schade and even Pinnock who are strong on throw-ins.”<\/p>\n
BBC Match of the Day pundit Ashley Williams, the former Wales captain, said: “It’s weirdly difficult [to defend long throws].<\/p>\n
“The day before a game you practise defending corners and free-kicks but not long throws. <\/p>\n
“Because it’s coming in from a different angle, it creates chaos. It’s something teams should work on more.”<\/p>\n
Former Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given added: “It’s refreshing. Sometimes a bit of old school ‘throw it into the mixer’ can cause a bit of carnage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long throw is back in vogue, it seems. It was a tactical weapon Rory Delap used to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-142720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}