Footballers who are weirdly good at one specific thing

Chairman Steve

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Laurent Robert and amazing long range and/or acrobatic goals. That man could have had his own goal of the season competition every season when he was at Newcastle.
 

Welsh Wonder

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Haven't read through the thread, has anyone mentioned Fellaini and his chest control?
 

STYLOISRED

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Am quite surprised no one has mentioned Kante‘s aerial dominance. The man wins duels against significantly taller opposition.
 

roonster09

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Am quite surprised no one has mentioned Kante‘s aerial dominance. The man wins duels against significantly taller opposition.
Aerial dominance? He wins 30% of his aerial duels, that's not dominance.
 

SportingCP96

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Bas Dost with first time finishes has 61 goals for Sporting and 50 are first time finishes.
 

redshaw

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Sinisa Mihajlovic's corners were quite incredible if you watched Italian football. He's good at freekicks as well but the corners had a unique lowish trajectory and whip and curl on them you don't see from others or if you do it's a one off from a hundred taken which have a similar vicious bend. He could do these at will.

I remember one match he did about 3-4 in on go from the corner flag.

Ultimately whether its a free kick or corner, Miha had this ability to hit a lowish trajectory very hard that could dip or curl then hang in the air that was a joy to watch. A true technician.

Can't find a corner comp but you can see many of his freekicks with a similar feature.

Worth watching, when the Italian league was magical.
 
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