{"id":8767,"date":"2026-03-03T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/sometimes-arsenal-spend-one-minute-taking-a-corner\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:10:02","slug":"sometimes-arsenal-spend-one-minute-taking-a-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/sometimes-arsenal-spend-one-minute-taking-a-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sometimes Arsenal spend one minute taking a corner&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published59 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler has called for stricter rules around set-pieces and criticised upcoming opponents Arsenal for time-wasting.<\/p>\n<p>Hurzeler, whose side host the Premier League leaders on Wednesday, claimed the Gunners sometimes wait &quot;over one minute&quot; to take their corners.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal&#x27;s prowess at set-pieces continues to fuel their title charge, with Sunday&#x27;s victory over Chelsea the ninth time the Gunners have scored a match-winning goal from a corner this season.<\/p>\n<p>But they have also been at the forefront of recent discussions around grappling and blocking at set-pieces, with Everton boss David Moyes identifying Mikel Arteta&#x27;s side as the trailblazers for the use of &quot;dark arts&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why he believes Arsenal&#x27;s approach to set-pieces has received the level of attention it has, Hurzeler said: &quot;There are no clear rules anymore [around] how much time you can spend taking a corner or a throw-in. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some of the ways teams are blocking, there&#x27;s no real rule. Sometimes the referee whistles and it&#x27;s a foul, sometimes it isn&#x27;t a foul or they don&#x27;t whistle. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;[We need] a clear rule on how much time you can take for a corner, a free-kick, because no-one recognises it. When Arsenal have a corner and they are leading, sometimes they spend over one minute just to take a corner.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The statistics show that, on average, no Premier League team take longer to restart from corners than Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Hurzeler pointed to the responsibility he feels clubs have to ensure match-going fans are being provided with value for money.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Every supporter pays a lot of money to watch our games and should see the same game time,&quot; Hurzeler said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They want to see a football event, not maybe 50 minutes when the ball is in the game and 40 minutes when the game is not running,&quot; Hurzeler said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But we won&#x27;t change these rules immediately. We know how important set-pieces are. At the moment it&#x27;s a big trend in the league and we definitely need to adapt to it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Matches involving Hurzeler&#x27;s Brighton have the ball in play 56.2% of the time &#8211; the fifth-highest in the league, above seventh-ranked Arsenal (55.7%).<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners&#x27; average delay time over free-kicks, goal-kicks and throw-ins is in keeping with other Premier League clubs.<\/p>\n<p>But their average 44.35-second delay at corners is almost 50% longer than that of Chelsea, who they defeated with their 15th and 16th league goals from corner routines this season.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0431l6lzpyo\">\n<p>How can football&#x27;s lawmakers fix the corner chaos?<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published23 hours ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/c3v71ykvxwpo\">\n<p>&#x27;Ugly&#x27; or &#x27;beautiful&#x27;? Set-pieces prove decisive for Arsenal again<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published1 day ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#x27;It&#x27;s gone too far&#x27; &#8211; managers have their say<\/h2>\n<p>There have already been three more goals scored from corners in the Premier League this season (138) than in the whole of the previous campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United interim boss Michael Carrick said the situations inside the penalty area at set-pieces had &quot;gone too far&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It wasn&#x27;t long ago we were told you couldn&#x27;t lay a hand on anyone in the box and it would be stamped out,&quot; Carrick said at his news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s crept in. The success of set-pieces, corners in particular, probably in terms of being able to put so many bodies close together, has made more teams do it because the success rate is so high.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s understandable why there are so many teams doing it. As a game, it doesn&#x27;t feel like we&#x27;ve got that balance right. I don&#x27;t know what to do about it, it&#x27;s not for me to decide.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>His comments were a day after Liverpool boss Arne Slot said he finds most Premier League games <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gjwm99we8o\">no longer a &quot;joy to watch&quot;<\/a> and his &quot;football heart doesn&#x27;t like&quot; the increasing emphasis on set-pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he understood Slot&#x27;s comments and agreed &quot;in some ways&quot;, but added: &quot;It&#x27;s part of the game.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When I was a young boy we said the people in England celebrate corners and free-kicks like a goal. I remember perfectly, so nothing has changed in that way,&quot; Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Arsenal dictate how they do it and it is an important aspect. Four years ago in the NBA, the three-shot point was not involved as much but now so many teams do it. It is part of the dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You can sit and complain but you have to adapt.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\">Arsenal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce8e6y90g2jo\">\n<p>Follow your club with BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published17 October 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sounds\/series\/p02nrsln\">\n<p>Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/articles\/cl5q9dk9jl3o\">\n<p>Get football news sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published16 August 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurzeler criticises Arsenal over delays at cornersImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Brighton are 11th in the Premier League following back-to-back wins over Nottingham Forest and BrentfordPubli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}