When should you trade on corners?

The corner kick is a staple event of a football match, with regular occurrences of it seemingly regardless of the action or momentum.

Many teams still utilise corners as a big part of their attacking plan. Some, like FC Midtjylland of Denmark, have mastered them in recent seasons and reaped the rewards.

However, for analysts and traders it can be quite difficult to judge games that are likely to have a high number of corners, especially pre-match. In this piece we will investigate a few standard ways of predicting corners.

Later, we will use an Asian Handicap model to see if games where one team is expected to dominate produce more corners. For now, let’s just look at the average corners per game across 7 leagues in 2014/15:

The rest of this blog post can be found on the StrataBet website - sign up is free and I recommend you follow them on Twitter @StrataBet