Against Luton Town, Swindon scored from another two corners, meaning that five of their last six goals have come from dead balls, and they last conceded from one in November.
The Adver revealed that Town have brought in a part-time set-piece coach of late to help them focus on the finer details of those moments, and that work is being clearly borne out with the number of goals Swindon have started to score from them.
No team in League Two has scored more than Bromley from set pieces this season, with them making up 45.45 per cent of their total goals, and Barnet, Milton Keynes Dons, Cambridge United, and Walsall are the other five top scorers from dead balls, all of whom are in the promotion race.
Swindon have begun to improve in that area with the arrival of their set-piece coach, and Wright said it did not take long to figure out how important those moments are.
Wright swings a ball into the box (Image: Andy Crook)
He said: “In this league, if you don’t concede from set plays, then you will really limit how many goals you do concede, and, touch wood, at the moment, we are very good at attacking set plays, we have scored a lot of goals from those, so long may that continue.
“In these winter months, games come so quickly, and pitches are going a little bit, so we are probably not as free-flowing as we were at the start of the season, but good sides find wins in these games.
“They are massive at both ends. We are keeping them out at the right end and scoring at the right end as well, so that goes a long way at this level.
“At all levels now, look at Arsenal, they are scoring every week from set plays and not conceding from them.
“It is such a big thing, and now everyone is analysing them and coming up with routines, so teams are going to be looking at us.”
The two goals against Luton both came from short corners, with the first seeing Michael Olakigbe play quickly to Wright, who curled one into the far post with nobody getting on the end of it.
Then the second saw the ball come to Aidan Borland, whose cross got a flick that unsettled James Shea, and his parry went straight to Filozofe Mabete.
Wright admitted that whilst plenty of work went into their routines, there was still some room for invention on the part of the players.
He said: “Some of ours are coming off the cuff, so people can’t even plan for them, so let’s hope that continues and we can keep scoring that way.
“I always tell the lads to just get me in around the box, but that one [the first goal] was all down to Michael.
“He went over there enthusiastic to get on the ball, and he probably wanted it back to go and have a one-v-one, but not today. That was my moment.”