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>Meat walls, tush pushes... I wonder if basketball is gonna get something similar

The infield shift in baseball is another example.

StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

Every other sport is just jealous of how gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) MMA is. Haha

grayruby

I'm certain Premier League will fix it next season and in the world Cup there's no chance of allowing what Gooners where doing 

But yes the dead ball plays are really becoming more impactful, now you have specific coaches for it 🤮

gsc360

Footballers trying to find smth to stop this

30ca731315

A hulking new tactic has turned the beautiful game into a wrestling match. Now, every corner kick is a dangerous scoring opportunity.

Since the Meat Wall first sprung up in English soccer two years ago, it has transformed corners, free-kicks and throw-ins—once viewed simply as ways to restart play—into some of the game’s most dangerous scoring opportunities. And if the same holds true at the World Cup, then the teams that successfully negotiate the Meat Wall over the next five weeks will have a good chance of being alive in the tournament come mid-July.

Redirecting a corner kick from one spot in the box to another just a few yards closer to goal might sound like a minor tweak. But over the past two seasons, it has had a monumental impact. Roughly 70% of all corners taken in the English Premier League last season were inswingers aimed into the six-yard box, up from just 48% in 2022-23. It’s no coincidence that scoring has increased almost as much: Nearly one in five goals last year came from a corner kick, an increase of 50% on the season before.

What makes that weapon so lethal is how it puts goalkeepers back in the line of fire. In the earliest days of the sport, it was considered perfectly acceptable to barge a keeper into the net in an effort to score a goal. But ever since the laws of the game were rewritten in 1997 to prohibit challenging the keeper mid-catch, the man between the sticks has become a protected species.

The Meat Wall acts as a loophole because it traps the goalkeeper on his line, blocking him from even attempting a catch, which lowers the likelihood of an infringement.

“It has just completely changed the game,” said former goalkeeper Tony Meola, who made 100 appearances and three World Cup squads for the U.S. Now the keeper must navigate hulking giants and complex blocking schemes designed to wall him off while the ball is airborne.

Meat walls, tush pushes... I wonder if basketball is gonna get something similar.  Something tells me that maybe hulking sweaty men enjoy piling on top of each other.

Stacker_Sports

## A hulking new tactic has turned the beautiful game into a wrestling match. Now, every corner kick is a dangerous scoring opportunity.

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> Since the Meat Wall first sprung up in English soccer two years ago, it has transformed corners, free-kicks and throw-ins—once viewed simply as ways to restart play—into some of the game’s most dangerous scoring opportunities. And if the same holds true at the World Cup, then the teams that successfully negotiate the Meat Wall over the next five weeks will have a good chance of being alive in the tournament come mid-July.
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> Redirecting a corner kick from one spot in the box to another just a few yards closer to goal might sound like a minor tweak. But over the past two seasons, it has had a monumental impact. Roughly 70% of all corners taken in the English Premier League last season were inswingers aimed into the six-yard box, up from just 48% in 2022-23. It’s no coincidence that scoring has increased almost as much: Nearly one in five goals last year came from a corner kick, an increase of 50% on the season before.
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> What makes that weapon so lethal is how it puts goalkeepers back in the line of fire. In the earliest days of the sport, it was considered perfectly acceptable to barge a keeper into the net in an effort to score a goal. But ever since the laws of the game were rewritten in 1997 to prohibit challenging the keeper mid-catch, the man between the sticks has become a protected species.
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> The Meat Wall acts as a loophole because it traps the goalkeeper on his line, blocking him from even attempting a catch, which lowers the likelihood of an infringement.
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> “It has just completely changed the game,” said former goalkeeper Tony Meola, who made 100 appearances and three World Cup squads for the U.S. Now the keeper must navigate hulking giants and complex blocking schemes designed to wall him off while the ball is airborne.

Meat walls, tush pushes... I wonder if basketball is gonna get something similar.  Something tells me that maybe hulking sweaty men enjoy piling on top of each other.

A hulking new tactic has turned the beautiful game into a wrestling match. Now, every corner kick is a dangerous scoring opportunity.A hulking new tactic has turned the beautiful game into a wrestling match. Now, every corner kick is a dangerous scoring opportunity.