[Albion] How to defend against a Ward-Prowse freekick

[Seasidesage]

Tranquilizer dart

 

[portlock seagull]

Going by this season's evidence, surely the answer is "we won't..."!!!

 

[middletoenail]

Simple, just position the goalkeeper towards the top left hand corner. JWP owns the top left corner, it's not rocket science

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Simple, just position the goalkeeper towards the top left hand corner. JWP owns the top left corner, it's not rocket science

I said yesterday before he scored “top left-hand corner!”

 

[The Wizard]

1) Stop giving so many free kicks away around our box, I’m sure we concede more in this area than any other team.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I said yesterday before he scored “top left-hand corner!”

I'm not going to dispute that you may be the next Mystic Meg, but realistically you had a 50/50 shout.

Alternatively, set up an earpiece with Maty.

 

[Swansman]

He scores one free-kick on average every 26,5 games so lets take a chill pill before subbing the goalie, lining up with no wall and putting 11 players on the goal line if they get a free-kick somewhere.

 

[darkwolf666]

He scores one free-kick on average every 26,5 games so lets take a chill pill before subbing the goalie, lining up with no wall and putting 11 players on the goal line if they get a free-kick somewhere.

I never had you down as the voice of reason, but we'll said that man...

 

[BluesRockDJ]

Take him out of the game in the 1st minute? only joking.

Good shout , play Andone for first 5 minutes !!

 

[BluesRockDJ]

Play Sanchez ? Horses for courses ?

 

[The Wookiee]

Someone mentioned on another thread but thought it could do with one of its own.

Just how the hell do you defend against those kicks? Easy answer is to not give away free kicks in the first place, but its unavoidable sometimes. I think some sort of radical tactic is required. Not sure what though. Player on the post? But that would allow the attacking players to crowd onto the line. Suggestions? The guy is lethal.

I suspect he has not scored from a free kick more times than he has scored, just dig out all those clips on YouTube or wherever and that should give us the answer !

Only problem is nobody ever remembers the free kicks that hit the wall, go over the bar or wide of the post or those that are saved!

 

[Is it PotG?]

Indeed.

In that Greece game where we scraped a home draw, Beckham had ballooned about 12 prior to the one on target.

 

[Swansman]

I suspect he has not scored from a free kick more times than he has scored, just dig out all those clips on YouTube or wherever and that should give us the answer !

Only problem is nobody ever remembers the free kicks that hit the wall, go over the bar or wide of the post or those that are saved!

Exactly. Doing a lot of special measures just because JWP scores a little more than one goal per PL season is just... dumb. Dunk is statistically more likely to score an own goal than JWP is to score from a set piece. Yet no one suggests benching Dunk for the rest of his career to prevent him from putting it in his own goal.

The world would be a better place if people didnt build their world views based on single events or whatever todays newspaper front page likes you to embrace / fear.

 

[zefarelly]

4 tallest in the wall , 4 shortest sitting on their shoulders

Let’s see if can get the dip after getting it over that


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Don't forget someone laying down behind

 

[Arthritic Toe]

I suspect he has not scored from a free kick more times than he has scored, just dig out all those clips on YouTube or wherever and that should give us the answer !

Only problem is nobody ever remembers the free kicks that hit the wall, go over the bar or wide of the post or those that are saved!

Well form comes into it too, and in his last his last 2 games (for free kicks closer than about 25 yards) - vs Villa 2 free kicks 2 goals. vs Man U, 1 free kick 1 goal. He doesnt seem to do any of those things you mention at the moment.

 

[dazzer6666]

How many goals have we conceded direct from free kicks this season ?

 

[Machiavelli]

He scores one free-kick on average every 26,5 games so lets take a chill pill before subbing the goalie, lining up with no wall and putting 11 players on the goal line if they get a free-kick somewhere.

And what of his more recent average like, for instance, for this season?

 

[Acker79]

Not only don't have a wall, but have all our players line up behind the ball, so if he wants to pass it, they all have to start behind the ball too (or they're offside), and it becomes a foot race. Tariq is back!

 

[Stat Brother]

Not only don't have a wall, but have all our players line up behind the ball, so if he wants to pass it, they all have to start behind the ball too (or they're offside), and it becomes a foot race. Tariq is back!

A 5 man wall.
5 men lined up on the halfway.

They'll need at least 6 back, leaving only 3 'spare' in our half to our 5.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I'm not going to dispute that you may be the next Mystic Meg, but realistically you had a 50/50 shout.

Alternatively, set up an earpiece with Maty.

I can not claim to have any sort of clairvoyant powers. It just seemed blindingly obvious.......

PS - I know where J W-P lives. I can get him nobbled by next weekend......... not really.