Defensive walls a bad idea shock

If you remove the wall you will get players hitting the free kick completely differently so for a 'study' to suggest they've figured out they don't work is silly.

25 yards out full power struck low is harder to save than someone whipping it over a wall.
 
Chris_Boro said:
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That looks to me like a gust of wind. Regardless, the keeper seems to have set his feet very early and does not try to adjust his position and as a result he hardly gets off the ground. The other point is that you will always get an outlier in any statistical sample
Alvez_48 said:
25 yards out full power struck low is harder to save than someone whipping it over a wall.
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As demonstrated last weekend by our boy Wing. My point would be ranges beyond thirty yards, like the freekick posted by Chris. Also not that is not a "power" strike and has quite a loop on it.
 
parnabyscrosses said:
I've always thought this, I'd back any decent keeper to save any outside of the box free kick if there was just him and the fk taker on the pitch, only poor positioning could beat him surely.
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Well from 12 yards we all accept it's massively in the taker's favour.

Of course, there comes a distance when the balance of power changes and favours the keeper. At 20 yards I'd think it's still in the taker's favour.

But it doesn't matter when it becomes less than 50% exactly. If it's 60/40 in the keepers favour just based on the distance, it's probably 85/15 with a wall.
 
It I doubt it would improve our scoring recored😂

Jokes aside I cant agree. If someone has a free run up from 20 yards and hits it as hard as he can it's almost unstoppable.

The wall gives him the difficulty of having to get it up and over whilst not seeing exactly where he's putting it.

You imagine paddy smashing it from the edge of the D with no wall? It's only 6 yards off being a penalty.
 
If there is no wall, I think it will be harder for a keeper, as individual defenders and attackers are not going to leave a clear space for a shot. Players will be stood around all over the box, some in the keepers view, some not. Ricochets, keepers being unsighted, rebounds will all make defending outcomes less predictable.
 
Muttley said:
I've often wondered if beyond thirty - thirty five yards then a keeper should be able to stop any shot given clear sight of it and that perhaps a wall reduces his reaction time. They should be able to test this on a training field?
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I'm not convinced, not with the new balls and the knuckleball technique. In some instances a ball could be going 5 yards wide to the left at the 30 yard point, but by 20 yards could be going in, to the right side of the goal. That first 10 yards of travel has hampered the keeper, more than helped him.

I wouldn't criticise a keeper for that, the same way as I don't really praise goals from over 30 yards, especially those that are just whacked. Fans generally over estimate a players skill/ ability to put the ball where they want it, especially from over 25-30 yards, the vast majority are just hit and hope. I can only think of one player who had good accuracy from that range (Beckham), the rest that end up in the top corners are mostly luck.

This is why I don't believe that having no wall would the defnding team either, as it opens the door for someone to just aim for the middle of the goal and just belt it, and see where it ends up.
 
BoroMart said:
great shot but that's a 1 in a 1,000 goal, most shots will trickle to the keeper, balloon over the bar or drift wide.
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Aye, but the reason I posted it was to show the last moment deviation of the ball which is what done the keeper.

If given a free blast at goal the same would happen with modern footballs, at the power players can hit the ball it would take much to beat the keeper.
 
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