Pre-Season Tutorials 4: Set Piece Takers

For Pre-Season Tutorials 1: Creating Your Squad, click HERE.

For Pre-Season Tutorials 2: Picking Your Players, Captain and Substitution Order, click HERE.

For Pre-Season Tutorials 3: The Art of Transfer, click HERE.

I've to add another piece of tutorials here as I missed out one important section about set piece takers. Anyhow, you won't hate for additional information will you?

Set piece takers can potentially deliver you more points as it is easier to score goals from free kicks and penalties and deliver assists from both free kicks and corner kicks. No matter how bad a player's form is, a set piece taker will at least still remember how to shoot and pass when there is no interruption.

Therefore, when comparing two players of similar performance, it is important to take into account whether or not they are set piece takers. Set piece takers are often more consistent due to their higher chance to record goals and assists through set pieces.

Major Set Piece Takers of Every EPL Club

Arsenal: Fabregas, Van Persie
Aston Villa: Milner*, A. Young
Birmingham: Larsson, McFadden

Blackburn: Dunn, Gamst Pederson
Blackpool: Adam, Ormerod
Bolton: K. Davies, Lee, Taylor
Chelsea: Drogba, Lampard, Malouda

Everton: Arteta, Baines
Fulham: Dempsey, Murphy

Liverpool: Gerrard, Jovanovic
Man City: Barry, Tevez
Man Utd: Rooney, Giggs
Newcastle: Nolan, Barton
Stoke City: Etherington, Lawrence
Sunderland: Reid, Bent, Richardson
Tottenham: Bale, Modric
West Brom: Brunt, Dorrans
West Ham: Cole, Diamanti, Noble
Wigan: McCarthy, N'Zogbia, Rodallega

Wolves: Jones, Kightly, Milijas

*James Milner may not be playing for Aston Villa this season.

**The bold ones are some very productive set piece takers.

***The information might be outdated or inaccurate. It's always better to check yourself time after time as the season progresses.