Muslic hails impact of Argyle set-piece coach Auer

Hubert Auer is the third coach brought in by Miron Muslic since the Austrian took over at Argyle in January

Plymouth Argyle head coach Miron Muslic has hailed the impact of set-piece coach Hubert Auer.

The Austrian joined the Championship side earlier this month and Muslic says his work has contributed to the wins over Liverpool and Millwall.

Argyle's penalty in their famous 1-0 FA Cup fourth-round win over Liverpool was won after a long throw found its way to Darko Gyabi, who played the ball on to Harvey Elliott's arm.

Meanwhile, Mustapha Bundu scored Plymouth's second in Wednesday's 5-1 Championship win over Millwall when Victor Palsson headed on from a well-worked deep free-kick.

"I realised we were not dangerous at all, absolutely not dangerous at all," Muslic told BBC Sport about his side's set-piece threat when he joined the club last month.

"In my short time in England, I realised that everyone is putting balls [in], every throw-in is in the box, we have to defend against 10 opponents.

"I wanted to change this and we've found a structure against Liverpool to put the balls inside to challenge, but to keep also the wave alive. It was Darko with the second ball, the second wave we put it back in."

Mustapha Bundu's goal against Millwall came from an Auer-inspired free-kick

He continued: "The Victor and Bundu thing, it's second wave and second wave we attack again.

"So it's not always pretty, but it's effective and it's definitely an area where we have to improve.

"Over 40% of the goals worldwide are scored off the set piece and we were not able to score one, but we also changed that, that just makes us more and more dangerous."

Former goalkeeper Auer has previously worked with Muslic when the Argyle boss was in charge at Austrian side SV Ried.

"I think it's very important because I want quality. You need to invest time and to do it properly," added Muslic.

"It can't be done just by an assistant coach and you do it quickly and you do a little bit of this and a little bit of that, then you're not dangerous at all, everything is just a little bit.

"I demand quality in everything. This is a very important area and you need a specialist."