Just study Juninho.

I'd say there's far more technique in a well hit free kick with the instep as that's usually hit with pin point accuracy.

Those freekicks with swerve are more hit and hope, hence the success rate is so low. When they come up, they are unsaveable but that's just because the very nature of that free kick technique is so unpredictable.

Nobody has ever really hit those on a consistent basis then, Ronaldo just takes hundreds of free kicks.

Its not hit and hope at all. Its just harder.

i know its fun to watch but I didn't think the utd meltdown would happen this quickly

If he goes now they could potentially get a decent manager and possibly turn their season around.

I hope he stays for a few more months at least and completely ruins the team spirit however I have a feeling his days are numbered.

comment by Robbing_Hoody - as a rule I don't trust a man who doesn't drink but I do trust James Milner (U6374)
posted 8 minutes ago
Its not hit and hope at all. Its just harder.
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If it's not hit and hope why can't the best player of our generation and one of the best of all time get it consistent?

feel like pure sh!!t, just want her back.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dn-X72zXsAA3DrR.jpg

comment by Alisson Chains (U3979)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Robbing_Hoody - as a rule I don't trust a man who doesn't drink but I do trust James Milner (U6374)
posted 8 minutes ago
Its not hit and hope at all. Its just harder.
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If it's not hit and hope why can't the best player of our generation and one of the best of all time get it consistent?
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Because it's hard to execute. Not sure what you're on about here.

comment by Robbing_Hoody - as a rule I don't trust a man who doesn't drink but I do trust James Milner (U6374)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Alisson Chains (U3979)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Robbing_Hoody - as a rule I don't trust a man who doesn't drink but I do trust James Milner (U6374)
posted 8 minutes ago
Its not hit and hope at all. Its just harder.
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If it's not hit and hope why can't the best player of our generation and one of the best of all time get it consistent?
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Because it's hard to execute. Not sure what you're on about here.


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Hmmm. Not sure I agree, there's definitely massively less control using that technique which for me makes it far more hit and hope.

There is less control if you don't execute it correctly, that's the point.

comment by Robbing_Hoody - as a rule I don't trust a man who doesn't drink but I do trust James Milner (U6374)
posted 11 minutes ago
There is less control if you don't execute it correctly, that's the point.
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Agree to disagree, I believe you have less control which is why players don't use it. But appreciate I'm not exactly a professional footballer

I don't think I can even agree to disagree because you're bending my head.

Harder technique/ harder to do.

It's like saying a scissor kick is a hit and hope.

Robbing if I just say "you're right" will you shut up?

About this, yes.

Bit dissapointed tbh

comment by Michael Edwards FC {Proud owner of the 5 000 000th comment} (U2720)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
Just study Juninho.
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Was going to say this, I think I read that his knuckleball secret was hitting it with his third toe when he struck it.

It's a hard technique and can be unpredictable

comment by Gaffer Pranks 🏆🏆 (U6283)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
i know its fun to watch but I didn't think the utd meltdown would happen this quickly

If he goes now they could potentially get a decent manager and possibly turn their season around.

I hope he stays for a few more months at least and completely ruins the team spirit however I have a feeling his days are numbered.
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Hoping he lasts till Jan, giving him just enough time to sell Pogba and Martial out of spite

comment by The Duality of Can (U21747)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Michael Edwards FC {Proud owner of the 5 000 000th comment} (U2720)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
Just study Juninho.
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Was going to say this, I think I read that his knuckleball secret was hitting it with his third toe when he struck it.

It's a hard technique and can be unpredictable
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Sounds a bit hit and hope to me.

Don't make me come over there

Unpredictable makes it hit and hope for me...

comment by Gaffer Pranks 🏆🏆 (U6283)
posted 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
i know its fun to watch but I didn't think the utd meltdown would happen this quickly

If he goes now they could potentially get a decent manager and possibly turn their season around.

I hope he stays for a few more months at least and completely ruins the team spirit however I have a feeling his days are numbered.
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Any team which required there keeper to regularly pull off breathtaking saves to gain points is at some point going to trip over their bootlaces.

Over the last few seasons De Gea has been extraordinary. Its no coincidence once his form has dropped they are struggling.

This meltdown has been on the cards for a while, because there is no pattern of play and crucially Jose's penchant for scapegoating his players. Nothing is ever his fault.

It's got to unravel a bit more before they sack him though.

My own Eureka moment arrived when I was sat on the toilet. Hardly romantic, but there you go. The search for Juninho's secret had become an obsession for me, to the extent that it occupied my every waking thought. It was at the point of maximum exertion that the dam burst, in every sense of the term. The magic formula was all about how the ball was struck, not where: only three of Juninho's toes came into contact with the leather, not his whole foot as you might expect.

The next day I left the house really early, even electing to skip my usual classic PlayStation battle with [Alessandro] Nesta as I rushed to the training paddock. All I had on my feet was a pair of loafers – I didn't need proper boots to demonstrate what I was now convinced was the right theory.

I stuck it right in the top corner, just where the post meets the crossbar.

A geometric gem. I placed the shot so perfectly that it would have gone in even with a keeper. Luckily for our goalies, none of them were around.

Again, up I stepped and unleashed a carbon copy of the previous free kick. It was a thing of absolute beauty, stylistically impeccable. I lined up another five strikes and it was the same story every time. By now it was official: I'd cracked it. The secret was no more.

In essence, the ball needs to be struck from underneath using your first three toes. You have to keep your foot as straight as possible and then relax it in one fell swoop. That way, the ball doesn't spin in the air, but does drop rapidly towards the goal. That's when it starts to rotate. And that, in a nutshell, is my maledetta.


- Pirlo

Had a busy morning unfortunately, how much of the United meltdown have I missed?

That's where I read it, all three toes not your third toe

comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 9 minutes ago
My own Eureka moment arrived when I was sat on the toilet. Hardly romantic, but there you go. The search for Juninho's secret had become an obsession for me, to the extent that it occupied my every waking thought. It was at the point of maximum exertion that the dam burst, in every sense of the term. The magic formula was all about how the ball was struck, not where: only three of Juninho's toes came into contact with the leather, not his whole foot as you might expect.

The next day I left the house really early, even electing to skip my usual classic PlayStation battle with [Alessandro] Nesta as I rushed to the training paddock. All I had on my feet was a pair of loafers – I didn't need proper boots to demonstrate what I was now convinced was the right theory.

I stuck it right in the top corner, just where the post meets the crossbar.

A geometric gem. I placed the shot so perfectly that it would have gone in even with a keeper. Luckily for our goalies, none of them were around.

Again, up I stepped and unleashed a carbon copy of the previous free kick. It was a thing of absolute beauty, stylistically impeccable. I lined up another five strikes and it was the same story every time. By now it was official: I'd cracked it. The secret was no more.

In essence, the ball needs to be struck from underneath using your first three toes. You have to keep your foot as straight as possible and then relax it in one fell swoop. That way, the ball doesn't spin in the air, but does drop rapidly towards the goal. That's when it starts to rotate. And that, in a nutshell, is my maledetta.


- Pirlo
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So just to paraphrase.

Hit and hope.