The Premier League’s set-piece tactics are the rule, but Guardiola refuses to follow the trend and has his own offensive obsession

Manchester City head coach Guardiola admitted at a press conference on Tuesday local time that many Premier League teams are now pursuing set-piece tactics, but he himself will not follow the trend or follow the trend.

Nearly 19% of Premier League goals this season come from corner kick tactics, which is nearly 5 percentage points higher than in previous years. Pep Guardiola admitted that set-piece tactics have become a trend: "Indeed, now people even want to use every throw-in as a corner kick, putting 10 players in the penalty area... We suffered a lot in the game against Brentford, or look at Brentford's game against Liverpool, the power of every throw-in by Chijordi, and then he was also elected as the best player of the match."

"Today's set-piece tactics are extremely threatening." The Manchester City coach talked about the past: "I remember a long time ago, when Dyche was coaching Burnley, he still used long passes and fought for the second position. He was absolutely the best in this area, and Allardyce also did this. I remember that before I came to the Premier League, Stoke City (Stoke City)'s throw-ins were very powerful at the time. Wenger had also talked about these before, but they were an exception in the Premier League at that time, but now in the Premier League, grenade throwing tactics can be seen everywhere."

Although set-piece tactics are prevalent, Manchester City is the only team in the Premier League that has not yet made any achievements through set-pieces. Guardiola added: "Every head coach will act according to his own beliefs. I also want to score through set-pieces and corner kicks, but I'm not naive about it. I want to score goals, but I spend my time thinking about how I can make the team play better, attack more effectively and create more scoring opportunities. Of course I will pay attention to this trend, but I will not deliberately imitate it... This is what I have been doing my whole career."