Footballers who specialise in only one skill

horsechoker

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Queresma with the outside of the foot shot

Fellaini with his chest control.

Robben with cutting inside and shooting (maybe a bit harsh to include him here)

What others are there?
 

paraguayo

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Robben is harsh.

One dimensional footballers are guys like Gibson who was only useful for shooting
 

Botim

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Phil Jones - Haunting your nightmares

 

Ibi Dreams

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Inzaghi - tap ins

edit: bit harsh on him actually. Perhaps "scrappy goals"?
 

Pexbo

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Andre Herrera used to do a lovely open body feint as if he’s going to let it run past him before cutting it back in. Used to create so much space for him when he got it right.
 

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Stewart Downing. Was English and had a decent enough left foot. Wikipedia says he won 35 caps for England over a nine year period!
 

Bebestation

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The first person that came to my head was Antonio Valencia.

He was so good at it that he was useful though, a bit like Fellaini.
 

Rasendori

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Now one may argue some of these guys had more in their locker, well I'd say you can say the same for Quaresma who was listed in the OP. It seems its permitted if it was something they were particularly good at, despite being gifted in over skills.
 

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Now one may argue some of these guys had more in their locker, well I'd say you can say the same for Quaresma who was listed in the OP. It seems its permitted if it was something they were particularly good at, despite being gifted in over skills.
Blanco was one to play a pass off his back & butt also, wasn’t he?
 

Pavl3n

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My favourite thing about the McGeady flick is that on one of the Fifa games Ea became so incompetent that they made it so McGeady couldn't do the skill move he created.
Fifa and incompetent in one sentence is like day and sun.
 

V.O.

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Now one may argue some of these guys had more in their locker, well I'd say you can say the same for Quaresma who was listed in the OP. It seems its permitted if it was something they were particularly good at, despite being gifted in over skills.
Who in the feck woke up one morning and decided to make a Hugo Sanchez compilation set to the fecking numa numa song? :lol:
 

Rozay

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David De Gea is good at saving the ball but not seen much of his dribbling, tackling or shooting. So him.
 

Leonzo1

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Yossi Benayoun, used to throw his body to the left to turn on the defenders constantly.
 

thegregster

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Gylfi Sigurdsson and Harry Wilson do nothing in games bar score great freekicks.