Free kicks are one of the many things Messi is good at, as I will detail below, being considered by some even as the best-ever free kick taker, which I'll back up later. Without further ado, let's look at his free kicks.
He has scored a total of 53 free kicks in his career, which is an incredibly high amount. He has scored at least one between 2008 and 2020, also noteworthy. In the league, he has an average conversion rate of 9%, with 36 goals in 400 attempts, which is good as well. He's even managed to do panenka free kicks, an amazing technique that only an elite player like Messi could pull off.
The way that defenders defend Messi's free kicks have increased in intensity recently. As an example, here are Messi's free kicks against Cádiz.
They clearly know the danger of Messi's free kicks, and these are just a fraction of all the times this has happened recently.
And finally, as I stated earlier, there were two polls about who the best free kick taker of all times was, the first one being this one from RMC Sport with over 40K votes and this one from SPORTbible with over 48K votes and an overwhelming difference between first and second place. As we can see, he's definitely renowned as one of the best free kick takers in history.
No comments:
Post a Comment