Am I alone in thinking this is the better of the two? Don't get me wrong both are absolutely 10/10 brilliant.
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Am I alone in thinking this is the better of the two? Don't get me wrong both are absolutely 10/10 brilliant.
Yes, the 2nd was better. Perfection.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Bunnell
Don't think either wall was particularly well set up though.
Second one is better purely because it lands right in the very top corner. First one is is pretty ****ing brilliant as well :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
The way I see it, the way the wall was set up for the 2nd and our players smartly moved away effectively gave Rice a open goal to smash it in. The execution and power of it is tremendous so obviously still brilliant.
The 1st the way he curled it actually AROUND the wall, not up and over the wall is just insane. No keeper will ever save that because the view is obstructed by the wall and by the time the keeper sees the ball it's in the back of the net. The curve on it was phenomenal and he hit it with some ooph as well.
Easier to bend it round the wall, than get it up and over and then down. Declan essentially said as much, not to say that it wasn't perfectly executed.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Bunnell
This is the essential difference between the two. The first one went round the wall, the second went to the goalkeeper's side.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Bunnell
I think you can make an argument for either of them being better. The precision required for the first one is to make it around the wall and inside the post, with pace. For the second, it is about getting it right into the very corner, from wide, and at pace.
I've seen people saying the walls were wrong. I don't buy it at all.
The wall is definitely wrong for the 1st one. 2nd one less so, still think they were a man short in both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Amid all the fuss on the free kicks, I think Merino's finish is overlooked - that was a beauty as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
The view behind the goal showing the spin on the ball is incredible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
How far outside the post do you want the wall? I think you set it so it takes a world class strike just to get round it, never mind beat the keeper.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
For the second, the wall is irrelevant. Rice goes keeper's side, it is deliberately open.
His goals per game since moving to centre forward is better than our strikers :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I don't buy this theory.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
The walls were set up exactly how Courtois wanted them.
If that gives Rice a "go on then", then Rice punished him.
Twice :love:
We well, All moaning when he got moved to Centre forward, especially after we didn't buy anyone in January and then Kai got injured. But since he moved there, it's six in ten in both comps {with only a bit of the second half in the first.}Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I think no one expecting much has taken off the pressure, coupled with the confidence he's got from actually scoring. And hopefully, if he plays inside left neck season, he'll know he can score. Could hopefully get quite a few arriving late in the box like Freddie did.
That goal was beautiful. I thought it was only Leo in our team who could finish a moving ball first time like that.
He can score goals, no question. But he really struggles with the rest of the role.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Of course. Your set up at a free kick strengthens one angle at the expense of another. In every instance you are protecting the percentages and leaving the toughest route to goal open, to be protected by the keeper.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
The first free kick found a way around the wall. The second took on the open route. Just Rice showing us he can do both :-)
After all this, don't be surprised if he never scores from a free kick ever again :hehe::hehe:
Exactly - easy after a goal is scored to say "the wall should have been there / more men in the wall". The only time a wall is wrong is when they jump or don't jump.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
That wouldn't surprise me, but even a stopped clock, etc
No. I reckon he's gonna Titi it. His corners show he has a stunning set piece delivery, the FKs show that he has power to go with accuracy and he's such a talented footballer, Ganpati willing he can start doing it all the time like Titi did.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
And if opposing teams put more men in the wall in response, that's more free men we have for a cross.