Shooting from outside the box

Ahh...remember when this was a thing for us? Nowt like seeing someone twat it into the top corner from a mile out. Think possession stats are partly to blame-players are too scared to take a chance and lose the ball.

That and a lack of ability, obvs. :s

Who do we have on our books who's capable of this now? Schar, maybe? Definitely not Shelvey, not now.

Thought of this after seeing the Laurent Robert goal map-the golden ones are free kicks:

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Longstaff (sean) use to be able to do it under Rafa.

I suspect Ritchie can as well.

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Originally Posted by Zippity

Ahh...remember when this was a thing for us? Nowt like seeing someone twat it into the top corner from a mile out. Think possession stats are partly to blame-players are too scared to take a chance and lose the ball.

That and a lack of ability, obvs. :s

Who do we have on our books who's capable of this now? Schar, maybe? Definitely not Shelvey, not now.

Thought of this after seeing the Laurent Robert goal map-the golden ones are free kicks:

Attachment 19289

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Robert was really something special though.