Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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These are a disgusting/average/sensationalist stat.
[Albion] DISGRACEFUL stat
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schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
It would be SO MUCH EASIER if the other team wasn't allowed to put ELEVEN(11) players in front of the goal. Apparently 1(ONE) even gets to use HIS/HER/THEIR hands.
IIRC the official PL data is wrong. Its just four. They're counting the Lewis Dunk goal that was ruled out.
You're right, but his free kick goal against WBA was ruled out. But the PL are still counting it in some stats.
The Welbeck free kick is as good as it gets. Its the perfect height (hidden behind the wall) and the goalie doesn't see it before its too late. Impossible to do something as a keeper if you haven't seen the direction of the ball until its past the wall.
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Hove / Παρος
According to the Premier League we scored:
2 in the 19-20 season (Dunk, Groß)
1 in the 20-21 season (
)1 in the 22-23 season (Mac Allister)
1 in the 24-25 season (Welbeck)
Yep. On a par with our miserable number of saves by our keeper of reckless back passes.
And the total absence of times I have said yes to a flagrant offer of rumpy pumpy from an International Supermodel.
Humans can be shit at weighing the odds, and many of us game them to suit our desires.Weird how we all get excited by a free-kick on the edge of the box when there's a 0.0001% chance of scoring from it unless the keeper has a howler
For trivial matters like spectator sport its all part of the fun.
In real life it can risk survival, but the advantage, if the risk comes off, is the bigger reward.
This explains seemingly irrational pursuits, and risk-taking behaviour in commerce and sport (and war).
Sorry, I'm apparently on one today.
Gazwag
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I remember Liverpool scored one under the wall at the Amex although that was probably a cup match
The goalkeepers starting position was too central. He needed to be at least one metre to his left to protect that side of the goal. The wall protects the other half.
Nigella's Cream Pie
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Maybe when Messi and Ronaldo retire they can coach us - Messi has scored 65 from free kicks, Ronaldo 64.
Or Beckham and Ronaldinho now, since they've already retired - 65 and 66.
Or Beckham and Ronaldinho now, since they've already retired - 65 and 66.
- Apr 19, 2018
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Yep. The City one was Phil Foden scoring from the free kick he got for slipping and falling over last season.
Nigella's Cream Pie
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Why free kick goals have reduced in the PL from 31.3 average 2004-13 to just 11 last season:
https://www.premierleague.com/news/...past six seasons,shots have resulted in goals.
https://www.premierleague.com/news/...past six seasons,shots have resulted in goals.
Easy 10
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I need to know the PHANTOM free kick goal in 20-21 then or its going to bother me. And I'm going to bed soon.According to the Premier League we scored:
2 in the 19-20 season (Dunk, Groß)
1 in the 20-21 season (
1 in the 22-23 season (Mac Allister)
1 in the 24-25 season (Welbeck)
- Apr 19, 2018
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I think I agree. Let’s say footballers train 175 days a year allowing for match days, rest days, injury, off-season etc. if someone spends an hour every training day on free kick practice from, say, 16 years old then by the time they are 22 they’ve spent around 1000 hours practicing something that’s honing a skill (kicking a ball) they are already elite at. I know developing a skill is subject to the law of diminishing returns but you’d expect at least the trajectory of improvement to be upwards and not a static line. Maybe Welbeck is showing that improvement by his late-career free kick goal.
Lewis Dunk against WBA.
Allison could have prevented the goal by not having previously been sent off (his infringement leading to the free kick that Dunk scored!).