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delpiero1986

delpiero1986

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Ronaldo Serie A's worst free kick taker

Cristiano Ronaldo has never scored a free kick for Juventus in 24 attempts, with 15 of them hitting the wall, prompting a possible rethink.
The star striker prides himself on his set play abilities, scoring some spectacular long-range strikes for Portugal and Real Madrid.
However, with his absence from the 2-1 win over Brescia on Tuesday seeing Paulo Dybala and Miralem Pjanic take over set piece duties, some are wondering whether to change the hierarchy.
AS calculated that Ronaldo has taken 24 direct free kicks since he joined Juventus last season and is yet to score a single one.
In 15 occasions, it went straight into the defensive wall, while two went off target and the other seven warranted some sort of challenge from the goalkeeper.
The only player recently to have done worse in Serie A was Camillo Ciano of Frosinone, who had 21 attempts last term.
On the other hand, Juve have some reliable free kick takers like Paulo Dybala, who converted nine in the Juve jersey, while Miralem Pjanic scored seven
 

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Juliano13

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delpiero1986 said:
Ronaldo Serie A's worst free kick taker

Cristiano Ronaldo has never scored a free kick for Juventus in 24 attempts, with 15 of them hitting the wall, prompting a possible rethink.
The star striker prides himself on his set play abilities, scoring some spectacular long-range strikes for Portugal and Real Madrid.
However, with his absence from the 2-1 win over Brescia on Tuesday seeing Paulo Dybala and Miralem Pjanic take over set piece duties, some are wondering whether to change the hierarchy.
AS calculated that Ronaldo has taken 24 direct free kicks since he joined Juventus last season and is yet to score a single one.
In 15 occasions, it went straight into the defensive wall, while two went off target and the other seven warranted some sort of challenge from the goalkeeper.
The only player recently to have done worse in Serie A was Camillo Ciano of Frosinone, who had 21 attempts last term.
On the other hand, Juve have some reliable free kick takers like Paulo Dybala, who converted nine in the Juve jersey, while Miralem Pjanic scored seven
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He's not gonna stop taking them. I feel a new record ia coming.
 
kappa96

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FIFA The Best Messi votes falsified?

Football Italia

There is growing controversy over FIFA’s The Best Award because votes were incorrectly given to Leo Messi, according to at least two participants.
Turin-based newspaper Tuttosport have framed this as Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo being ‘robbed’ of the trophy.
If anything, Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk came in second on 38 rank points, followed by Ronaldo on 36, with Messi way out in front on 46.

Ronaldo did not attend the ceremony in Milan last week and it is not the first time he has snubbed a FIFA awards gala in recent months.
According to today’s edition of Turin-based newspaper Tuttosport, there are some very suspicious allegations emerging from those who voted for the award.
Both Nicaragua captain Juan Barrera and Sudan Coach Zdravko Lugarosic claim they were shocked to see the list of published votes with their preferences assigned to Messi.
Barrera tweeted that “any information on my vote for #TheBest2019 was falsified, thank you.”
A statement was later released by his club warning that he “expressed his concern because his name was used in a situation where he had no participation. He did not exercise any vote and the information presented does not correspond to his criteria.”
In an even stranger twist, Sudan Coach Logarusic reportedly a picture of his votes for Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Kylian Mbappé.
However, the FIFA list has his vote changed to Lionel Messi, Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mane.
The Sudan Football Federation came out afterwards to insist the 'original' was a photoshop and his vote had not been changed.



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Renegade

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He intentionally hit free kicks at the wall gambling on a gap, if the ball finds a gap its a surefire goal however this strategy is not working anymore. His technique is rather hard, Benitez tried to change it but got the door shut in his face. He should simply start whipping the ball like Messi does.
 
DAiDEViL

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Renegade said:
He intentionally hit free kicks at the wall gambling on a gap, if the ball finds a gap its a surefire goal however this strategy is not working anymore. His technique is rather hard, Benitez tried to change it but got the door shut in his face. He should simply start whipping the ball like Messi does.
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What he should do, is let those take the freekicks who are actually good at them, namely Pjanic and Dybala.
 
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