Pirate55
The Last Man Standing 17/18
Remind me, how many goals have we scored from direct free kicks this season?
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Christian Eriksen
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Remind me, how many goals have we scored from direct free kicks this season?
milo
Jack L. Jones
2
Goals from direct free-kicks
West Ham 4
Chelsea 4
Sunderland 3
Spurs 2
Swansea 2
Goals from indirect free-kicks
Sunderland 5
Arsenal 5
Leicester 4
Spurs 4
S'hampton 4
http://statspack.squawka.com/
Pirate55
The Last Man Standing 17/18
Thanks. I am really surprised it is so low everywhere it seems.
milo
Jack L. Jones
Yes. I think that there is a tendency to think that other clubs score more than they do because we do not pay as much attention to them as we do Spurs.
Bedfordspurs
Vinnie Samways
Exactly and other than Willian and Payet there is no else who takes decent free kicks
Erisken as are very good generally but as he hasn't scored as many this season people think it's a weakness of sorts
parklane1
Tony Galvin
You have a point but in all honesty most free kicks do not get scored from, there used to be a big myth about " Goldenballs" being a ace dead ball man but he missed many more then he scored ( like most players do)
Bedfordspurs
Vinnie Samways
That's my point
Eriksen has had the highest number of free kicks scored for the last two seasons IIRC but there still low numbers
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Yes, as posted previously in this thread, a FourFourTwo article published last October placed him fifth best in the whole of Europe, ahead of Ronaldo and Messi no less:
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/revealed-europes-11-best-free-kick-takers#:m_H5ueVxWmMEPA
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Well, percentage-wise he stood at 6th best in Europe according to the article linked above and has since scored at least a couple more, so probably leapfrogged ahead of Eriksen by now.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
across domestic and international games he scored 65 free kicks in 638 games, which is more than half of his 114 senior goals tally
thats better than a one in ten rate which compares very favourably with anyone else, as you say, he missed more than he scored, but he is still one of the all time great FK goal scorers
parklane1
Tony Galvin
Well we will have to disagree as I do not know what others average, but his actual taking of them was no where near as good as the hysteria that surrounded his ability at hitting the target.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
According to this Mailonline article in January 2015.Beckham was placed fourth best this century:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Premier-League-s-deadly-free-kick-taker.html
But whatever you think of Beckham's fk prowess it's worth recalling just how godawful we used to be before the likes of VdV, Bale and Eriksen. One goal every ten kicks may not sound much but it can make one hell of a difference to where you finish up come the end of the season.
parklane1
Tony Galvin
Beckham only had 5 free kick goals in the PL for ManU?
Just goes to show that free kicks are not as a high scoring as some fans think they should be.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
This century. As galeforce says he scored 65 in all but the vast majority would have been either in other competitions or in the 1990s, or both.Beckham only had 5 free kick goals in the PL for ManU?
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
Beckham only had 5 free kick goals in the PL for ManU?
Beckham got 15 in the Premier League according to this - http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/...020515-david-beckham-a-career-in-numbers.html
Eriksen has 6 in the Premier League in 3 seasons. 2 per season.
Beckham had 8 full seasons at United. So his 1.875 per season is pretty much the same as Eriksen rate.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Excellent today!
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
He's been much better since the turn of the year. Match winning goals and performances. He put Alli's goal on a plate for him.
awesome dawson
Mitchell Thomas
One of our seven or eight key players who is having an excellent season. Started slowly but since Xmas has been in true playmaker form. Excellent vision, work rate and passing. Lucky to have him flying under the radar because he's literally one of the players we could have massive clubs sniffing around for.