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Set Pieces

They've been as rare as hen's teeth for years! Bale vs Arsenal in 2007, Jenas @ Old Trafford & the Riverside (?) 2005. After that I'm struggling! Similar story with corners & other set pieces. As to why.................?
 
David Bentley vs. Wigan, 2009
David Bentley vs. Fulham, 2010
Roman Pavlyuchenko vs. Rubin Kazan, 2011

Seems to be one every year.
 
They're fairly rare for most teams. When you see your own team every week and all the others on MOTD it does strange things to perception.
 
This is the thing that always annoys me. Sometime freekicks can decide the outcome of a match but we never score from them. You can see why we seldom score from freekicks. We never practise them and don't have a specialist freekick taker. Whenever we get freekicks, it is always embarassing to see almost the entire team line up to take it. It seems they are always unsure of who is supposed to take it. How do you expect a player to become a freekick specialist when there are always different player taking it ? IMO, only Bale or VDV should take our freekicks. They are the only ones who got the suitable technique in taking freekicks.
 
WhoopWhoop said:
When did we last score direct from a free
Kick and why are we so useless at them? Me and my mate tying think now genuinely can't think when we last scored one but probably just being thick?
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Twitter / @OptaJoe: 0 - Tottenham haven't scored from a Prem Lge free kick since 1 Jan 2011 & since 26 Jan 2010 for a direct free kick shot. Dearth.

Perhaps we should've signed Pedersen instead of Bentley :-k

Twitter / @OptaJoe: 10 - No player has scored more direct free-kick goals in the Premier League than Morten Gamst Pedersen since August 2005 (10). Expert.

scaramanga said:
They're fairly rare for most teams. When you see your own team every week and all the others on MOTD it does strange things to perception.
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As of January 4th only 13 direct free kicks goals had been scored in the league. I expect that figure is closer to 20 now but still goes to show quite how infrequent an occurrence it is for most sides...

Twitter / @OptaJoe: 7 - Seven of the 13 direct free kick goals in the PL this season have been scored by Saudi Sportswashing Machine (3) & Sunderland (4). Regional.

Well except for Real Madrid...

Twitter / @OptaJose: 14 - Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his 14th goal from a direct free kick for Real Madrid. Technique.
 
SteveAWOL said:
Perhaps we should've signed Pedersen instead of Bentley :-k
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To be fair, Bentley isn't exactly given the same opportunities that Pedersen is.
Neither are more played ones like Bale and vd Vaart.

Kaboul nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Letting our defenders have a go when we got guys with sweet feets like Rafael Ferdinand and Gareth Frank is silly
 
scaramanga said:
They're fairly rare for most teams. When you see your own team every week and all the others on MOTD it does strange things to perception.
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Reminds me of Roberto Carlos, where he had a great reputation as one of the best at taking direct free kicks. Of course, he scored a few screamers but if they showed all the horrible misses aswell you'd have a totally different impression.
 
So today Walker steps up and scores an absolute "worldie" of a direct free kick. During his after match interview he tells the interviewer that he does not practice free kicks - and therein lies the rub. He did not just step up and blast the ball "Kaboul style" instead he curled the ball in the top corner with his his instep, yet he does not practice free kicks.

Now just imagine what damage he could do if he stay out after training every day and practice. He obviously has the ability, and I can assure you the likes of Juninho Pernambucano and David Beckham did not become expert free kick takers without practising. It is a shame that Harry or one of the other coaches has not got this sorted. I have always been of the belief that we should have at a minimum two right footed and two left footed players practising set pieces, both direct free kicks and corners on a regular basis
 
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NaijaSpurs said:
So today Walker steps up and scores an absolute "worldie" of a direct free kick. During his after match interview he tells the interviewer that he does not practice free kicks - and therein lies the rub. He did not just step us and blast the ball "Kaboul style" instead he curled the ball in the top corner with his his instep, yet he does not practice free kicks.

Now just imagine what damage he could do if he stay out after training every day and practice. He obviously has the ability, and I can assure you the likes of Juninho Pernambucano and David Beckham did not become expert free kick takers without practising. It is a shame that Harry or one of the other coaches has not got this sorted. I have always been of the belief that we should have at a minimum two right footed and two left footed players practising set pieces, both direct free kicks and corners on a regular basis
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Beckham was famous for the amount of practise he put in on his free kicks.
 
Rorschach said:
Beckham was famous for the amount of practise he put in on his free kicks.
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And was still bricker than Hoddle at them :lol: I remember one season where Beckham failed to score for about 30 consecutive Utd games, and took at least one DFK per game, sometimes as much as four or five DFK's. May even been his final Utd season, because the first game he wasn't available Giggs took one for the first time and years and buried it :lol: Even Beckham's "famous" goal against Greece was his seventh or eighth try that match!
 
The Moonlit Knight said:
And was still bricker than Hoddle at them :lol: I remember one season where Beckham failed to score for about 30 consecutive Utd games, and took at least one DFK per game, sometimes as much as four or five DFK's. May even been his final Utd season, because the first game he wasn't available Giggs took one for the first time and years and buried it :lol: Even Beckham's "famous" goal against Greece was his seventh or eighth try that match!
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But I also mentioned Juninho Pernambucano who is the best I have seen, and he practised

[video=youtube;CuKIWfg_j1U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuKIWfg_j1U[/video]
 
NaijaSpurs said:
But I also mentioned Juninho Pernambucano who is the best I have seen, and he practised
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[video=youtube;tL1bK34mPjQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL1bK34mPjQ[/video]

After a while it feels like you're watching a fly half in rugby.
 
Walker's one yesterday was the first direct free-kick that a Spurs player has scored in the league without taking any deflections since...

Gareth Bale against Arsenal in 2007.


I know every team thinks they're worse than everyone else at free-kicks because they only see other people's successful attempts on MOTD, but seriously, 5 years of not scoring one? With the number of free-kicks we get every game from people fouling Bale, Lennon and Modric? It's just not good enough.
 
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