Rashford on free kicks

[Eriku]

Yeah, we should take him off free kicks.

Just as we should have when Ronaldo was young and learning and trying to perfect his knuckle ball.

 

[IrishRedDevil]

Look at me, I hit ball hard... is his only thought when taking a free kick

 

[AndersB]

There must be someone who is better at freekicks than him at the club.

Everything about his game is woeful these days

Mata is obviously better from the right, but I think that's recognized. It's more surprising that Young hasn't been taking more of the ones closer to the box, considering his shooting technique and the Watford goal last season. Can't be any worse than Rashford's of Pogba's (earlier on) have been.

 

[manutd_croatia7]

Rashford can't be our first choice in taking free kicks. Just look at Greenwood free kicks technique and compare to Rashford. Rashford use just power and it's never good.

 

[calodo2003]

Yeah, we should take him off free kicks.

Just as we should have when Ronaldo was young and learning and trying to perfect his knuckle ball.

CR7 had a lot more success more quickly with that specific style of free kicks & he put the practice time in to become rather adept at them in 2007 to 2009 (not sure if that success was duplicated at Real). Rashford has not had the same kind of early success. He is keeping others from taking free kicks, others that have actually scored from positions from which Rashford has not even tested the keeper.

I couldn’t care less who takes the set pieces as long as they actually test the keeper & put it in frame. If memory serves, Mata & Young have scored from FKs this season using a more ‘conventional’ styles, maybe Pogba as well.

I completely agree with the others regarding him taking corners. He is abysmal at them.

 

[rcoobc]

If I remember correctly young scores a free kick v watford a few years back if not 2? I’d prefer him taking them than Rashford.

He used to be good at them.


Used

 

[vidic blood & sand]

Yeah, we should take him off free kicks.

Just as we should have when Ronaldo was young and learning and trying to perfect his knuckle ball.

Ronaldo hit it like happy gilmore most of the time.

 

[Sarni]

Yeah, we should take him off free kicks.

Just as we should have when Ronaldo was young and learning and trying to perfect his knuckle ball.

We shouldn’t have players learn to take free kicks during games. Him taking corners and free kicks now is just giving away the ball to the opposition which isn’t the best strategy if you are trying to actually win games.

 

[AKDevil]

Please make it stop.

Please!! I’m adding all my support to this movement.

 

[yumtum]

This was apparently done last week (along with chats with Martial, Pogba, & a couple others), OGS sat down with them individually to offer a reality check to each.

And then they probably put the Everton performance in, terrible attitude our bunch of mercenaries have.

@izec I know, its extremely frustrating as a supporter knowing that a dangerous free kick is just going to be a waste of time and a guaranteed goal kick.

 

[CaptainAvengers]

Atrocious. Everyone thinks they are Ronaldo but a dually they are Ashley young

Ashley Young is a better free-kick taker than Ronaldo

if you lined them up you'd see Ash has a bigger success rate with his Beckham-style technique of bending the ball in the far corner.

Ronaldo is a poor free-kick specialist as bad as Rashford. 1 in 100 go in.

 

[-Supreme-]

We need to take him off the first team next season if we want to achieve anything, let alone freekicks...

 

[el3mel]

There's one point in the last year I believe when someone convinced him he's the new Ronaldo and should try shooting like Ronaldo. He wasn't like that in the first 1.5 seasons after he got promoted. Since last season he has been trying to ridiculously mimic Ronaldo in his shooting and FKs. Someone needs to convince him otherwise, that he's shite at it and will never be Ronaldo so stop being bloody selfish and develop your own style.

 

[passing-wind]

Rashford is a bench player, he's too limited as a professional to be relied upon weekly. Him and Martial should be rotated for a singular position.

Bring in an Icardi / Jovic, rid Lukaku and give Greenwood a full season rotating.

 

[Fluctuation0161]

Agreed.

 

[red_de_pologne]

take Rashford off the first team and bring in Greenwood, this thread is going places

 

[pacifictheme]

Shockingly bad. The commentators always talk about hos fabulous fks. I genuinely can't remember him ever scoring one, has he?

Yes.

 

[Acole9]

I'm pretty sure he's only ever scored one free kick and that was nearly two years ago.

 

[Djemba-Djemba]

I'm pretty sure he's only ever scored one free kick and that was nearly two years ago.

One against Celta Vigo
One against Cardiff

A fluke one against Benfica too where the keeper caught his harmless freekick and stepped back over the line for some reason.

He's fairly awful at them, don't know why he's been allowed to take them all.

 

[breakout67]

I'm pretty sure he's only ever scored one free kick and that was nearly two years ago.

He scored one against Cardiff.

Rashford has scored 3 free kick goals in his whole career, which is shocking with the amount of free kicks he has taken.

 

[Acole9]

One against Celta Vigo
One against Cardiff

A fluke one against Benfica too where the keeper caught his harmless freekick and stepped back over the line for some reason.

He's fairly awful at them, don't know why he's been allowed to take them all.

He scored one against Cardiff.

Rashford has scored 3 free kick goals in his whole career, which is shocking with the amount of free kicks he has taken.

Ahh ok, a short memory I must have. Still that's not very many really is it. People have a pop at Ronaldo for his but he scores way more than that.

 

[Kostov]

Someone needs to slap him and tell him he isn't Ronaldo. Ronaldo wasn't even that good at those kind of free kicks never mind his less talented copying ass.

 

[RonaldoVII]

Ahh ok, a short memory I must have. Still that's not very many really is it. People have a pop at Ronaldo for his but he scores way more than that.

Could claim that all 3 are goalkeeping mistakes too.

 

[VP89]

We have Pogba, someone who has proven he can pass the ball brilliantly yet we indulge this twat with this 40 yard bullshit.

A strong manager or captain would've have dragged him off free-kicks a year ago.

Pogba took the last free kick from a good range against City and smashed the wall.

 

[superdry]

His free kicks are similar to the rest of his game, wank for 90% of the time, good 7%, brilliant 3%.
Spits 101% of the time.

 

[breakout67]

Pogba took the last free kick from a good range against City and smashed the wall.

Yes, but Pogba has shown far more from free kicks than Rashford. He has hit the woodwork a good amount of time with free kicks and gotten it on target regularly.


Pogba's free kick technique is very good, and much more deserving of taking them. I would have Pogba and Fred. Pogba on left sided free kicks and Fred on right sided ones.

 

[VP89]

Yes, but Pogba has shown far more from free kicks than Rashford. He has hit the woodwork a good amount of time with free kicks and gotten it on target regularly.


Pogba's free kick technique is very good, and much more deserving of taking them. I would have Pogba and Fred. Pogba on left sided free kicks and Fred on right sided ones.

Yeah, I think it's definately fair to say we'd rather see Pog taking dead balls than Rashford.

 

[Sterling Archer]

It's the stupid trend we've seen as the ball has become more 'advanced' and yet dips and swerves more frequently. These players are trying to take advantage of that instead of improving their true strikes. Ronaldo was one of the first I remember doing it...and well. Drogba started following and was gash, as are David Luiz and Rashford.

From just recently seeing Gylfi and Erikson's strikes it's a shame we don't have players with good, classic technique.

 

[Gopher Brown]

The worst part was illustrated against Everton the other day.

Free kick 40 yards out, slightly to the right. Our centre backs came forward, Matic was forward, obviously expecting a cross, because they wouldn’t you from that position? And what player wouldn’t be trying to cross it in?

Cue Marcus Rashford. Now he must have known he had two options, he either HAD to score or make sure it goes out for a goal kick otherwise all our defensive players are at the other end of the pitch and it would be easy for Everton to counter attack.

There was an absolute air of inevitability to the conversion that followed. But where was Pogba, Smalling, Matic, Solskjaer, Phelan, Carrick to tell him he’s being brainless and that was completely the wrong option?

 

[PlayerOne]

I don't understand how Ole and the coaching team just sit there and think yeah that's good enough, we should let him keep doing the same shit and just hope it works. Ole even made a point of saying how important set pieces were before we played Barca, but do the players even practice them in training?

 

[Robbie Boy]

Phil Jones on corners was awesome though.

 

[Darlington Padgett]

Phil Jones on corners was awesome though.

I completely forgot about that

 

[Art Vandelay]

Can we stop perpetuating this myth that Ronaldo is good at freekicks. He's shite at them and hasn't got a clue where they are going when he hits them. He scored one from 93 at one point. His conversation rate is woeful and it's ridiculous he keeps trying them.

Same for Rashford, unless he's going to learn to take them properly he needs to be told to feck off when he steps up demanding the ball at them. I suspect Solskjaer has already said something about this as he wasn't taking them against City.

 

[CaptainAvengers]

This is when happens when you get an ego and think you are CR7 shagging models and Love Island stars

The Ego Has Landed (I.E Marcus Rashford)

Shame these young lads let a bit of fame with England go to their heads.

Needs football boot camp to teach these overpaid, over-pampered lads a lesson.

Too much, too soon for too many of these young British players who turn out with a massive chip on their shoulders and a massive ego. It never happens as often on the continent.. why!?

You can't blame the media/press for everything.. personal responsibility too!

 

[poleglass red]

We did the exact same with Ibra. He consistently was terrible on free kicks yet continually hit them everytime.

 

[Art Vandelay]

We did the exact same with Ibra. He consistently was terrible on free kicks yet continually hit them everytime.

I forgot about that. Always reminds me of Henry on Sky talking about Harry Kane, saying that he needs to demand to take freekicks because he's the man in the team now and that will prove it essentially. Which is just ridiculous logic, yet seems prevelant.

 

[C'est Moi Cantona]

It's sad that we must work on this in training, and the best plan we can think of is for Rashford to toe punt it as hard as he can in the general direction of the goal, in the hope it bounces in front of the keeper and he fumbles it to one of our players, surely we're better than that.

 

[Rhyme Animal]

Very odd, Pogba is better, Mata is better, Ashley Young is better...

 

[Red00012]

He used to be good at them.


Used

Can’t be any worse than rashford , it would be impossible.

 

[Dante]

No worse than Ronaldo.

The idea is but the ball hard and unpredictably. Best case scenario is a goal. But the secondary hope is a ricochet or parry because the keeper can't tell where it's going.