You can have as many set-piece coaches as you want or work on as many drills, but it counts for very little unless you have someone like James Ward-Prowse to deliver the ball right on the money.
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The 31-year-old put his corner in exactly the right place for Flemming, who timed his run to perfection before heading home past Robert Sanchez.
Ward-Prowse could have walked off with another assist to his name at the death, but Jacob Bruun Larsen could only head agonisingly over the bar with what was a virtual carbon-copy of Burnley’s leveller.
Much has been discussed about the quality of Burnley’s deliveries from dead-ball situations this season and whether set-piece coach Pal Fjelde deserves some of the criticism he’s faced.
But as Parker explains, you can concoct the best set-piece playbook going, but it counts for little unless you have the right player(s) to execute it.
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James Ward-Prowse prepares to take a corner at Chelsea. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttardplaceholder image
James Ward-Prowse prepares to take a corner at Chelsea. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard
“Brilliant quality,” he said of Ward-Prowse’s delivery at Stamford Bridge.
"James is a real set-play specialist, but he’s got much more to his game than just that, of course. But when you want to deliver a ball, you know where it's going and that's the key, the absolute key.
“You can come up with all the set-play coaches, you can come up with all the best drills or the best blocks or the best runs, but fundamentally what you need is the ball to go in the area where you want it to go.
"The two deliveries he's put in, at that moment it's pretty easy – because if you make the runs and the ball's on the money, like it is, then you've got a chance and that was proven there.”
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