Are free-kicks not being coached anymore? Why is James Ward-Prowse so much better than everyone else? Shouldn't every club have a specialist? JohnnyTheNic
With his winning strike against Chelsea, James Ward-Prowse took his total of Premier League free-kick goals to 17, just one behind the record-holder, David Beckham. He is that most old-fashioned of things, a free-kick specialist. And he’s about the only one left in the Premier League.
But why? It would make sense if every club had a dead ball specialist wouldn’t it? There was a typical example in West Ham’s game against Spurs. One nil down, the Hammers get a free-kick on the edge of the box. Very dangerous territory. Said Benrahma, who isn’t a free-kick specialist, just kicks it high over the bar in the same way any non-professional in the sixth tier would have done. A goal at that moment would have changed the game.
The large majority of free-kicks are hit into the wall, over the bar or worse still, laid off to one side for another player to hit, by which time, as we all bloody well know, the defenders will have advanced on the ball to block it. Why don’t footballers understand what is so obvious to us? Don’t lay off a direct free-kick. It’s f*cking pointless. But we see it all the time by some of the more lunk-brained soccer brethren. It’s really a failure of coaching.
Where is the new Juninho Pernambucano? It seems to me that any player prepared to put in the hard yards to get good at taking free-kicks could become invaluable and command a high fee and high wages. It’s a real USP and one that would be in demand.
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