What about the Cardiff one? Ole’s first ever game with us ?He's always been capable of that technique (knuckleball) but never scored them. So happy for him to finally convert one
What about the Cardiff one? Ole’s first ever game with us ?He's always been capable of that technique (knuckleball) but never scored them. So happy for him to finally convert one
Which do you prefer:
vs Chelsea:
or
vs Celta Vigo:
Show me who scores 6-7 free kicks consistently in a season? Take a moment before you type.Law of probability said he was going to score one sometime.
Only if he does it another 6 or 7 times over the course of the season will I be impressed.
Law of probability said he was going to score one sometime.
Only if he does it another 6 or 7 times over the course of the season will I be impressed.
Only Messi and maybe Beckham, but very harsh to compare him to those 2Show me who scores 6-7 free kicks consistently in a season? Take a moment before you type.
And ignoring other condition (wind, ball condition, pitch condition, etc.)? If you hit the ball the same way 100 times you may get many different results because you're doing it in real world, not simulation.
Was a sensational FK.
Pogba and Mata should take them when they're on the pitch.
Mata while technically good rarely gets enough power on the shot to trouble to the keeper anymore.
Mata is our best short FK takers on the edge of the box, but he's useless beside that.
For the long ones Rashford will take all of them form now on I guess, though and despite the sensational FK yesterday, he still fecks up more than he delivers from those FKs.
That was like Ronaldo vs Portsmouth when David James just stood there and threw his arms up like "wtf am I meant to do about that"
To be fair, Rashford on free kicks now is what CR7 was for the last few seasons at Madrid, without the past glory to live on. Didn't Ronaldo set some freakish record for consecutive ones without scoring? It was obvious by then he was nowhere near good enough anymore, but who was gonna stop him trying? Once in a (long) while one might go in. Clearly both of them do enough in training with those funny things for a wall, but struggling to score past actual humans in games.
My point exactly. We’ve been laid low these last years, so much so that we’ve fans from wee teams like Leicester come and give snide opinions and remarks about our team and our players on a United forum. Go figure.Only Messi and maybe Beckham, but very harsh to compare him to those 2
Law of probability said he was going to score one sometime.
Only if he does it another 6 or 7 times over the course of the season will I be impressed.
Show me who scores 6-7 free kicks consistently in a season? Take a moment before you type.
Aim for the stars, hit the moon.You're asking for numbers that no-one else (bar Messi) produces.
And ignoring other condition (wind, ball condition, pitch condition, etc.)? If you hit the ball the same way 100 times you may get many different results because you're doing it in real world, not simulation.
This is real life, not a simulation model.
Ta-ra.Aim for the stars, hit the moon.
The point is that the technique differs and the one that he favours has very little allowance for error hence him missing so many.Those 'real world' factors generally have very minute effects on the technique. If that wasn't the case, then other forms of shooting and passing would be similarly hit and miss as they would also be subject to the same 'real world' conditions. What we can observe is that these more conventional passes are very consistent in their accuracy when delivered by a skilled player. Think Beckham, Scholes, Alonso, etc on passes; Messi on freekicks, etc.
Clearly these other techniques (driven passes, whipped crosses, etc) are generally predictable and predictably vary in correlation with the skill of the kicker not the 'real world' conditions.
According to the many experts here.... he should stop taking freekicks...
Let's be honest most of them have been awful. Hitting 1 absolute worldie doesn't change that.According to the many experts here.... he should stop taking freekicks...