{"id":797,"date":"2026-10-19T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/corner-stats\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T22:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:28:59","slug":"corner-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/corner-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Corner stats: the numbers you can trust and the ones you can&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teams that play a direct game with lots of crosses usually win more corners, even if they don&#8217;t necessarily create more dangerous chances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Numbers you can trust<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Average corners over a long run (10 games or more) reflect a team&#8217;s style of play quite well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Numbers to treat with caution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corners in a single match swing wildly: a team that is trailing usually piles on the pressure and wins lots of corners late in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of corners depends more on playing style than on strength. Knowing that helps you read the stats more accurately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mfd3_reviewer":0,"_mfd3_trending":false,"footnotes":"","_mfd_ml_orig":"en_US"},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}