Markus Suttner signs for £3.8m on 3 yr contract

[Nixonator]

Can you please refresh my memory of the goals scored direct from free-kicks, other than Pocs?


I genuinely have a terrible memory for this sort of thing, there may well be loads.

Not very many. AK scored one at home to QPR last season (same game as Skalak's thunderbolt), before that you'd have to go back to Spanish Dave and Ryan Harley. Maybe Kaz has scored one in between, but he usually likes someone to lay it off before.

 

[Randsta]

But the spine of the team won't get you goals. I'll put the flags out when at least two quality strikers have been signed up and ideally one more as well.

Plenty of time .....

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[chaileyjem]

But the spine of the team won't get you goals. I'll put the flags out when at least two quality strikers have been signed up and ideally one more as well.

Three "quality" strikers !

Don't expect flags any time soon

 

[Mackenzie]

He sounds like more of a wing back than full back, I wonder if we'll dabble with three at the back this season?

 

[Puppet Master]

He sounds like more of a wing back than full back, I wonder if we'll dabble with three at the back this season?

Expect so. The ageing Bruno will probs get done defensively by PL quality forwards so might be an idea to have him as more an attacking player.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

That was clearly just for a BET!

Skalak's set piece delivery (crosses rather than direct shots) is comfortably the best of any player at the Albion in the last 20 years.

And Knockaert's is decent, too.

I thought Seb Poc's delivery was outstanding when he played last year. Not that we'll retain him this season. For me Skalak is the most overrated of recent times. Can't believed he still gets hype and doesn't provide anywhere near enough chances to be lauded as a set-piece specialist. Each to their own, admittedly, but regarding the last 20 years Paul Watson probably takes that accolade.

Skalak is undoubtedly the best dead ball/free kick taker we have. It'obvious just from watching plus his assists tally. Paul Watson was great in the bottom two divisions with the benefit of arguably the best forward we ever had on the receiving end. But Skalak is an international and with a decent pre season I think he's going to prove his detractors wrong in the Prem.

 

[chaileyjem]

He sounds like more of a wing back than full back, I wonder if we'll dabble with three at the back this season?

He says in the interview that he's played in a back 5 in Bundesliga but Chris told him about our back 4 and responds "perhaps i won't be able to be as offensive [with Brighton] ..." and then chuckled to himself

 

[Stat Brother]

Not very many. AK scored one at home to QPR last season (same game as Skalak's thunderbolt), before that you'd have to go back to Spanish Dave and Ryan Harley. Maybe Kaz has scored one in between, but he usually likes someone to lay it off before.

If that's right, and it also sounds hard to believe (there's no pleasing some people ) it does rather validate my questioning We are certainly not short on set piece takers all of a sudden.

Esp considering the fact that, like our northern neighbours, some of our players are no strangers to falling over, in attacking areas of the pitch.

 

[chaileyjem]

Expect so. The ageing Bruno will probs get done defensively by PL quality forwards so might be an idea to have him as more an attacking player.

Ha ! We all think that before the start of a season and Bruno then goes and shows us how he defies age and ends up an ever present.
I'd not dismiss him so easily.

 

[symyjym]

It's extra good that he gets the pre-season with us.

 

[Nixonator]

If that's right, and it also sounds hard to believe (there's no pleasing some people ) it does rather validate my questioning We are certainly not short on set piece takers all of a sudden.

Esp considering the fact that, like our northern neighbours, some of our players are no strangers to falling over.

In truth we didn't win many free kicks in those kinds of positions last season where someone would fancy a shot. We mainly won them out wide by the opposition taking Knockaert out, and Murphy/Solly.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

As much as I'm being a little obstreperous, I'm not really remembering that many goals from any dead ball situations, last season, let alone direct.
.

Without looking them up, I can think of:

Duffy from a Norwood corner at Blackburn
Duffy from a corner at Brentford
Murray from a corner at Birmingham
Dunk from a Skalak corner at home to Norwich
Murray from a Skalak wide free kick (flicked header) at home to *someone*
Pocognoli at QPR

You could also note that we scored penalties at home to Newcastle and Leeds, both conceded due to the quality of the original corner / free kick

 

[Stat Brother]

Without looking them up, I can think of:

Duffy from a corner at Blackburn
Duffy from a corner at Brentford
Murray from a corner at Birmingham
Dunk from a corner at home to Norwich
Murray from a Skalak wide free kick (flicked header) at home to *someone*
Pocognoli at QPR

You could also note that we scored penalties at home to Newcastle and Leeds, both conceded due to the quality of the original corner / free kick

So did the team actually only score 1 goal direct from a free kick, all season?

Shirley that can't be right, that's shocking.

How many did Stockdale concede direct from free-kicks?
If that's 1 as well, I'll pipe down.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

So did the team actually only score 1 goal direct from a free kick, all season?

Shirley that can't be right, that's shocking.

How many did Stockdale concede direct from free-kicks?
If that's 1 as well, I'll pipe down.

Goals from direct free kicks are really not very common. Witness the stat that Suttner scored the MOST of ANY player in Europe's top five leagues last season, at that was 'just' FOUR.

The only ones that spring to mind that we conceded were Shelvey at Newcastle and Kightley at home to Burton.

 

[Nixonator]

Goals from direct free kicks are really not very common. Witness the stat that Suttner scored the MOST of ANY player in Europe's top five leagues last season, at that was 'just' FOUR.

The only ones that spring to mind that we conceded were Shelvey at Newcastle and Kightley at home to Burton.

The Reading one, Swift was it?

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Yeah, you might be right on the Hemed one. I certainly remember Knocky swinging it in with his left and Hemed's bullet header, but couldn't remember if it was a free kick or open play. Was Duffy goal from a corner?

I think it was, but can't be certain.

 

[Stat Brother]

Goals from direct free kicks are really not very common. Witness the stat that Suttner scored the MOST of ANY player in Europe's top five leagues last season, at that was 'just' FOUR.

The only ones that spring to mind that we conceded were Shelvey at Newcastle and Kightley at home to Burton.

I guess so, but still...

I've just had a quick look, thinking Gross also scored a couple that were direct free kicks, last season, but he didn't, so that eases my furrowed brow.

 

[severnside gull]

Looks a decent player in the Pocognoli mould but potentially offering a little more (and more consistently) going forward..
Happy with him joining

 

[Stat Brother]

The only ones that spring to mind that we conceded were Shelvey at Newcastle and Kightley at home to Burton.

The Reading one, Swift was it?

The furrows are coming back.

 

[Munkfish]

The only ones that spring to mind that we conceded were Shelvey at Newcastle and Kightley at home to Burton.



The furrows are coming back.

Knightleys was a ****ing peach.