Pep Guardiola is delighted by Manchester City's improvement in dead ball situations but wants his team to be even better. City actually lost their set-piece coach, Nicolas Jover, to Arsenal at the end of last season, but former Under-18s manager Carlos Vicens assumed those duties when he stepped up to the first team staff and works on those situations with analysts Carles Planchart and Harry Dunn.
The change this season has been visible as City have transformed themselves into some of the best in the top-flight; the equaliser at Southampton and the goal to take the lead against Fulham both came from set-piece routines.
More importantly, the feeling of the team being better at both attacking and defending set-pieces is borne out by the numbers in the Premier League compared to both other teams and previous seasons under Guardiola.
Only Liverpool (12) have scored more than City's 10 goals from set-pieces so far and the Blues are the only side in the division to have only conceded one goal from set-pieces.
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