How to Score from Corners in Football Manager 2010 21/04/10
An in-depth look and tactic on how to score corners in Football Manager 2010 with step by step instructions on maximising your chances of scoring.
This is a question I get asked loads and I have tried long and hard to make a new corner tactic that will work. After browsing various FM forums including FM-Britain.co.uk, and taking different ideas and suggestions from people, I have finally created a corner tactic that has given me some incredible results so far!
NOTE: I have been notified that there are different versions of this tactic and the same one that have already been created. I would just like to say that I had absolutely no idea of any of these and have been working on this tactic for over a week now. I started off with something completely different and think I tried a total of 9 different set-ups until I got to this one. So fair enough, I will take no credit for this (not like I wanted credit anyway) but just to share with my blog readers to improve there results.
So far in my Barcelona save, Xavi has scored 8 goals from corners in just 7 games. You are wondering why Xavi is the one scoring, because most corner tactics have a tall DC heading them in the 6 yard box right? Not this one, this is definatley the ultimate corner tactic and this is how I set it up.
THE TACTIC
First you must Chose your corner taker (the person with the highest attribute for corners), and in advanced team instructions set your corners to penalty area. Now you need to set up the individual player instructions which will make your tactic work, select a players instructions, click advanced and near the bottom it will have two corner settings, we will be editing the attack instruction for all players. So, here is what I did:
Set my two full backs to ‘Stay Back’
Both Centre backs to ‘Challenge Keeper’
My 2 wingers to ‘Stand on Far Post’
My CM with the highest attributes for Long Shots, First Touch and Technique to ‘Lurk Outside Area’ – This player will be the one scoring your goals
Both of my strikers to ‘Near Post Flick-on’
You will notice that there is only 9 players, one of them is the keeper of course, and the other player will be the one taking the corners. It does not matter who you chose to do what, eg instead of having your 2 wingers on stand on far post, you could use your strikers or whatever. Also, the player does not have to be a CM to score goals, pick the player with the highest attributes for the one’s I mentioned above.
NOTE: If you decide to swap some players around, make sure you have the right number of players at each location. 2 players staying back, 2 players on challenge keeper, 2 players on stand on far post, 2 players near post flick on, and one player lurking outside the area.
The idea is that the opposition will be busy marking the players disrupting the keeper in the box, and will leave the player lurking outside the area unmarked. Here is an image of Xavi scoring a goal using this tactic.
As you can see, Xavi is unmarked, and because his long shots, technique and first touch are all good, he will score 9 times out of 10 in this set-up. Also Iniesta is getting a lot of assists of course which bumps up his average ratings.
DISCUSSION
I hope this tactic works for you, I am confident it will, and would love some comments from you telling me how it is going for you if you try it. If you have any questions or queries I will be happy to assist you and clear up any questions you have. So, have you used this tactic and how is it going for you?
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54 Responses to this article
Only used it with Barca so far? It’s looking promising \o/
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Yeah, going to test it with a lower league team soon to see it gets the same effects, but posted it up now to get some feedback from others and how it’s working for them and what team.
isn’t this just the world famous corner exploit? Some users have scored double figures in a single match using it.
are you kidding?
you created this tactic?
DICK
If you read, it says I did not create this corner tactic, I got different ideas from different forums. I had no idea of this tactic (if there is on the same), but my idea was that that I will cram the box with players in hope of leaving one of my players outside of the box un-marked.
My first thoughts was actually to put a few players outside of the area that would be marked creating more space for a player to be in the box to head them in, I tried it but it did not work so adjusted it to this.
OK post is updated with the following:
NOTE: I have been notified that there are different versions of this tactic and the same one that have already been created. I would just like to say that I had absolutely no idea of any of these and have been working on this tactic for over a week now. I started off with something completely different and think I tried a total of 9 different set-ups until I got to this one. So fair enough, I will take no credit for this (not like I wanted credit anyway) but just to share with my blog readers to improve there results
Hi Dan, good tactic, I will try it out. Another that has worked quite well is FM Guru’s, that has meant i’ve scored a few crucial goals, corners can make all the difference.
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It’s cheats like you that ruin the community.
why try take credit for somthing u clearly didnt come up with wtf
im a big fat jobby tosser just like u
Stop trolling get a life. And if you read my note at the top of the post you will see the explanation so please read before you troll
Why do you feel the need to cheat?
I don’t see it as cheating, yeah I think it’s a bit unrealstic, but thats like saying if you buy Aguero in the game your a cheat because there is no way he scores 40 goals a season in real life?
It’s up to me, or anyone else whether they want to use this or not, and if you don’t then it’s fine.
Why do you feel the need to cheat?
i did what u told about the tactic
but my corner taker never gives the ball to “lurk outside area”man
any suggestion?
Have you set your corners in team instructions to penalty area?
why is everyone having a go, if you didn’t want to know anything about the corner “trick” / “cheat” then don’t come on to the blog.. pretty simple really.
anyway, this works pretty well, could really help some people when they are struggling, and as the FM game is about success and winning i think this tactic works well.. well done
it doesn’t work.
got all the settings on. corners set to penalty area. 10.3 update
and i never, ever score. the shot is always blocked.
Who are you using to shoot and what other players do you have?
i’m spurs. Huddlestone shoots but blazes it over all the time or it gets blocked. Bale usually takes them. Those 2 are lurking. the rest are in pairs doing the other corner instructions. I might just have to buy a player with 20 rating for long shots!!!
It is a cheat I suppose (if I can get it to work)!! Once I do i wont use it, as i dont want to win every game 10-0.
i say thanks for posting it!! (But tell me how to get it working!!)
Not sure why Huddlestone is not working if you have everything set up right. Maybe it is because his long shots is only 13.
If you do buy a player for it, make sure his technique and first touch attributes are high as well (pref all 16 or over) for best results
“I would just like to say that I had absolutely no idea of any of these and have been working on this tactic for over a week now.”
This made me laugh, the corner exploit had been out for nearly 2 months before you posted this. You took a quick look on the SI forums, stole the exploit and tried to pass it off as your own! Poor effort if you ask me. You even tried to defend yourself making out you created it which makes me laugh even more!
Trying to pass it as your won it pretty pathetic, come on who do think your fooling we ain’t dumb and true FM connoisseurs don’t use unrealistic methods to win games it defeats the whole concept.
Don’t worry about people trying to put you down, this is a good corner tactic. I stumbled upon it myself, without help also, but there were one or two things that needed tweaking. Thanks to you I have now filled in the missing parts of my puzzle
Thankyou
Woow, xavi scored 31 goals in 48 games for me:D
i think 25 of them was from corner:D
Good to see your having a lot of success with it, Xavi has got to be the perfect player for this tactic
his average rating was 8.21!!!
Hey. This seems like a good idea, but it doesn’t work for me. I am using Sunderland and I have done everything you said, yet the player outside the box is always marked.
2 players staying back, 2 players on challenge keeper, 2 players on stand on far post, 2 players near post flick on, and one player lurking outside the area.
remember set your team instruction to corners set to penalty area
Yep I’ve done all that. I just finished the season and signed Van Der Vaart, I’m in the process of playing a game now. He’s hanging around the box unmarked, but the corner taker doesn’t pass to him?? All the settings are as they should be, including aiming for the penalty area.
Excellent. Using with Liverpool.
Gerrard keeps banging them in!
Holla!
its not working for me.
i already did all the instructions above but the corner taker never pass the ball to the player who lurks outside area.
he kept sending the corner to the inside. i’ve already set corners to penalty area though.
can anybody help?im just curious with this tactic.
Hi! Well, I’m playing with two friends, I have Chelsea and the other two Manchester and Arsenal. In the first season, Arsenal got the premier league, having the first scorer – he scored double goals from the second – and the first assist player – he made twice assists from the second. Then, i searched through the net and i found this page.. I also tried it myself with complete success with Lampard. However, i definitely believe.. it sess
However, i definitely believe it is a cheat that ruin game’s game-play… It is surely unrealistic, as I scored 6 goals in the first game I used it and 3 of them were created with that tactic…
Now the point is: is there any way that I can defend from that tactic?? I cant find a “go to penalty area” choice in the “Corner-Defence” box..
I thought about “Man Mark” for all players in the “Corner – Defense” box… I haven’t tried it yet… But even then, we’ll beat all the computer – controlled teams pretty easy and compete only the 3 of us for the league….
I suggest not to use this tactic… Doing the classic cross near the keeper is surely more realistic…
Hi Chronicol thanks for your comments. I do agree this is a cheat but lots of people had asked me to share something like this.
Thanks for the suggestion of defending it. I may write a post sometime this week about defending corners and trying to defend this tactic!
Just use Oscar Cardozo as the player lurking outside the box and you’ll just take the mick. he scores literally 3 out of every 8 corners and sometimes he evens scores 3 or 4 in one half by volleying the corner straight in and especially on the half volley. On my game Cardozo has 67 goals in 47 starts and prob only had 25 in 30 before i started using the corner routine. he scores soo much i almost see at as cheating but then I am playing a network game with friends so dont really care. Gonna try it with vuckevic cos he has great first touch and striking ability also
Also on defending it @ Chronicol, the only team that i failed to score from it against was juventus and i noticed they had EVERY one of their players in the box defending the corner. Now because they had more defenders than attackers, they were able to have a man free standing on the edge of the box who closed down the goal attempt before mine could get his shot off so maybe having all your players defending the corner is the counter but i’m not sure if the spare man was set to “man mark” so you should try it and see.
it’s not really working for me either. in this image, fulham is defending with all men in the box.
but most teams don’t do that, and the thing I wanted to show you is the two players who are supposed to Near Post Flick On.
http://h.imagehost.org/0920/corner.jpg
They never stand at the near post! And I mean never.
Is it because of creative freedom? One of them has lower freedom, the other medium. I used to have my forward on the near post but he was always straying so I put in on the far post.
Is it because I have my tactics to More Roaming?
Perfect trick LOL.
My friend used it, he’s MC scored 5 goals from it, thrashing other team 7-0. He’s MC got perfect 10 rating too.
Another friend of mine used it and thrashed the other team 14-0!
You fat plagiarising fuck.
Hey guys I tried this with arsenal and i can’t seem to get it to work. tried switching the “target man” and corner taker between Fabregas and RVP but still no luck, read through three times. any common mistakes or errors i might be making? just want to try it out….can’t imagine it working 5x a game!
can anyone find a solution when the opposition man mark our lurk player..the ball always get blocked
I cant seems to get this tactic to work either..my player still run around in the penalty area..
Could you upload the tactic
this post is very usefull thx!
I’m trying this with Q.P.R. using Buzsáky as the one lurking the area and I have scored tons of goals, although like 30% are own goals scored by the rivals trying to stop the shoot.
A quick update: http://i46.tinypic.com/24oy5pe.jpg (without counting rebounds or own goals, the tactics works wonders).
Tactic worked first 3-4 games, but recently couple of my players have not been in the place i ordered them. They have been acting like i would have ordered them to attack ball from the deep.
This tactic seems to work for some teams, and for others it doesn’t…I used it when i played Man City and won everything the first season, and so on the next ones, but then started a new game at Inter and the players asked to “Stand on far post” just don’t do that and stay near the penalty area or just to close to the player Lurking outside and the opposition always gets the ball and starting counter-attacking. I thought it got fixed somehow, but then at Barcelona it works perfectly again, i played a bit with creative freedom and roaming, but it just won’t work for some teams, Real Madrid as well, anyone found a “fix” this is just overpowered
I think you are right tommy…I’ve practically given up on using it…I think I’ll use the old fashioned headers…
I’m playing with Barca too right now, I pretty much did everything you said with Iniesta taking corners and Xavi lurking but he is always marked by a defender. I tried putting two players lurking outside the area and they are both marked. They never get a chance to strike the ball cleanly. What gives?!
Have just set this up for my Grimsby career .. hope it works, the best player for those attributes only has like inbetween 10-13/20 for them