They stopped standing on the keeper, and started winning the back post
All 204 Brentford corners since August 2025, read player by player at the kick and in the seconds after it. Last season Brentford crowded the keeper on seven deliveries in ten and scored three times from 182 corners, the first at the 96th attempt. In five games this season the man on the keeper has almost gone, the far post has become the main target, and Brentford lead the league for shots and first contacts per corner.
Andrews said before Chelsea that you need to make life really uncomfortable for opposition defenders. The day after, a corner opened the scoring in a 3-0 win.
The routine library
Every corner is sorted by where Brentford's players stand at the kick and where the ball is aimed. Six routines cover all 204. Pick one to watch its most typical corner, then step through every corner of that routine. Hover a player for his name and job.
Corners in this routine
Who does what
Each player's job at every delivered corner he was on the pitch for, from his position at the kick and his movement in the next two seconds. A screen is a Brentford player who gets within 1.5 m of the defender marking a team-mate, in the line between them, in the first second after the kick, while that team-mate runs into the landing zone and gains at least a metre on his marker. Click a row to see his runs.
Runs
Who frees whom · screens, 2025/26
Who stands on the keeper · within 2 m at the kick
What changed from last season
Stephen Rice joined as set-piece coach in August 2025, so this is his second season, not his first. Twenty-two corners is a small sample next to 182, so every share below carries its count, and nothing is called new unless it barely happened last season.
The shape and the ball
Routine mix
Where the delivery goes · delivered corners
Jobs that moved
Against the league
Every Premier League side on its attacking corners. Small numbers next to each value are league ranks (1 = most). Keeper crowded = a player within 2 m of the goalkeeper at the kick of a delivered corner.
Where the back-post overload fits next
How the next three opponents, and every Premier League side, defend corners on the far side, and what corners aimed at the back post have produced against them for any attacking team. Both seasons are pooled for sample, 2026/27 is shown separately. Back post manned = an outfield defender within the area from just beyond the far post to 3 m inside it, up to 8 m out, at the kick.