Set-pieces are fashionable again thanks to Arsenal but the reality is they’ve always been important.
You have to admire the delivery of Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka, but their success this season is also due to opposition defenders and goalkeepers not doing the basics.
If the Gunners were facing Nemanja Vidic and John Terry every week — players who had real desire to win that first header — and proactive goalkeepers like Peter Schmeichel, they would find it much harder.
Ahead of today’s game at home to Arsenal, Fulham should study Manchester United’s midweek performance at the Emirates as how not to stop corners against the Gunners.