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Thiago Alc*ntara | Retires
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That volley from Telles was miles better.
Nah, Thiago's was a much sweeter strike and Telles volley bounced on the 6 yard box.
It's really not that hard. He just hit down on it to give it backspin. Happens a lot when players strike a volley from thigh/hip height.
Good goal but it's not going to be winning any awards.
Telles' goal above was far harder to execute.
Telles' was harder to pull off but Thiago's does look have a certain effortless finesse about itNah, Thiago's was a much sweeter strike and Telles volley bounced on the 6 yard box.
Absolutely brilliant goal. So pleasing to the eye.
I can guarantee you will find plenty of Sunday league players who are able to catch that volley like Telles, but very few if any would be able to hit a ball and get it to move like Thiago did.
Have they invented volleys now?
Definitely
Beyond the goal he ran the show the other night. Press resistant, and constantly playing the perfect ball to spring defence into attack quickly.
Who would have thought a world class player would look quality when he's a) fit and b) not playing in a dysfunctional and constantly changing midfield?
Who would have thought a world class player would look quality when he's a) fit and b) not playing in a dysfunctional and constantly changing midfield?
Nah, Thiago's was a much sweeter strike and Telles volley bounced on the 6 yard box.
A full volley is far far harder to pull off than a half volley.
I could bang a goal into the top corner from outside the box in my local park, it doesn't take away from the fact that Telles pulled it off in Champion's League game.
These are not Sunday League players.
Hitting a slow bouncing ball coming straight at you on the half volley with backspin is something any half decent player can do. Catching a full volley coming across your body is much harder to do.
Come off it. He signed for Liverpool a year ago. This is the first time he’s been fit? And why have Fabiinho and Henderson been able to shine in a “dysfunctional and constantly changing midfield” while Thiago has not?
Precisely.
Ah, the scouse revisionism.
It’s a very nice goal.
The bias in undeniable.
Thiago's strike is technically much harder to execute and aesthetically it's more pleasing, it's just a better goal.
Great goal,
But Thiago is still at detriment to the way Liverpool play, long may he continue to play.
But Thiago is still at detriment to the way Liverpool play, long may he continue to play.
Ah you're a Liverpool fan? Makes sense. Yes, it's up there with Maradona's goal in '86. Maradona did stumble a bit though so Thiago just edges it.
Yeah, everyone is biased apart from you.Thiago’s goal was more visually pleasing. Telles’ more difficult to execute. Ask 100 professional footballers and 99 of them would agree.
Nah, Thiago's was a much sweeter strike and Telles volley bounced on the 6 yard box.
Thiago's goal looks absolutely gorgeous from this angle.
Thiago’s goal was more visually pleasing. Telles’ more difficult to execute. Ask 100 professional footballers and 99 of them would agree.
Nope and I don't think 3 or 4 of you are everyone.
I know good technique when I see it, cutting across a moving bouncing ball coming toward you and keeping it low and swerving away into the corner like that is a much harder technique than punting a ball back across your body from where it came. Go out and try it if you don't believe me.
If you genuinely can’t see the difference between striking a half volley coming straight at you and a full volley after letting the ball come across your body then you’re the one who needs to get out there and start kicking a ball.
What a hit, he kicked that ball like it was an opposing player.
Probably would have scored more but Richarlison took him out for the whole season in his first season in the UK. And, as with serious injuries, he picked up niggling injuries on the back of it thus never really getting to 100% fitness.
The shot itself is remarkable. I still believe the ball bounced and if it really didn't then my mind is blown!
Nah, it's the way he hits it to generate the movement on the ball, that's the part that makes it better. Anybody with a bit of technique can punt a volley like the way Telles did.
This also isn't the first time he's been performing to a high level though. He was fantastic at the back end of the season when he got a run together with Fabinho in the middle and we won almost every game for the last three months. He's been great every time he's had some sort of defensive complement and hasn't had to play the role of deep-lying playmaker and defensive lynchpin in the middle. All the negativity around him last year came in games when the team was crippled by injuries and enforced rotation and he was adapting to a team in crisis. Now he's in a half-organised system again he's great. It's almost like he wasn't signed with the idea he'd been surrounded by a constantly rotating cast and tasked with defending in front of some combination of out of position midfielders and young players who had previously been on loan for Kidderminster.
Henderson and Fabinho are entirely different midfielders playing in an entirely different role. Also, neither had the time to shine in the dysfunctional midfield last year because they were either shifted back into defence or out injured.
Hardly revisionism. I admit he was below par when the team was a mess. But he's been our best midfielder when the team's not been.
Totally disagree. The ball is low and bouncing for Thiago, so far more margin for error than with the Telles hit, which has minimal margin for error.
I was just about to say that. I'm sure I've hit a few volleys like that in my time, left foot and right foot, but I don't even know how I would go about doing what Thiago just done.
Not that the Telles strike wasn't brilliant either. Got a wow out of me at the time.
Why don't those fly in every week then? Moreover why do players mishit volleys every week at the highest level?
Disappointing signing for Liverpool, hopefully he sticks around much longer.
Maybe not in the champions League but certainly in 11 a side and 7 a side. I have played football nearly every Saturday for 35 years and being small I have had to rely on skill and pace. Not that you will believe me.
It’s a really beautiful goal. Love the guy. Miss him at Bayern.
I just meant relative to one another to be honest. Obviously they’re both great goals.
Edit: when I say ‘minimal margin for error’ that means it’s far less likely to happen.
Maybe not in the champions League but certainly in 11 a side and 7 a side. I have played football nearly every Saturday for 35 years and being small I have had to rely on skill and pace. Not that you will believe me.
Good for you man, I hope one day you catch a sweet strike like Thiago did.
You've hit volleys with both left and right foot outside the box and scored, but don't know how to hit a half volley?
He cut under the ball with backspin. He’s a pro at the top level, what’s the big deal?