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Is Ronaldo actually good at free kicks? 

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For over a decade, it’s been one of the most iconic sights in football. The ball spotted, Cristiano Ronaldo closing his eyes and controlling his breathing, and every pair of eyes in the stadium and on sofas around the world settling upon him.
It’s the classic set up for a Ronaldo free-kick. But was he actually good at them?
Seb Stafford-Bloor finds out. Philippe Fenner illustrates.
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@Prederick
@Prederick Год назад
Late-career Ronaldo on FKs reminds me of late-career Roberto Carlos on FKs. Running on reputation from some insane strikes, relentlessly putting the ball into Row Z.
@brrrrrr7896
@brrrrrr7896 Год назад
Exactly my guy
@nocapfacts9330
@nocapfacts9330 Год назад
Lol ronaldo is not that good in fk. He attempts too much though .
@susbedo9258
@susbedo9258 Год назад
@@nocapfacts9330 that is why he said "putting the ball into Row Z" = kicking the ball into the stands.
@blacmagick9917
@blacmagick9917 Год назад
Or smacking the wall then appealing for a handball
@akaunderdog4223
@akaunderdog4223 Год назад
Exactly....its kinda sad
@simon.moebs99
@simon.moebs99 Год назад
I really wondered why he almost always went for power. His freekicks with less power seem to be way more dangerous like the 3-3 Freekick against Spain in the WC comes to mind
@milo631
@milo631 Год назад
Style over Substance, I guess
@vigneshpadinjakkara
@vigneshpadinjakkara Год назад
I felt like de gea could've done a lot better for that particular free kick.
@shikharashish7616
@shikharashish7616 Год назад
@@vigneshpadinjakkara He couldn't. The curve was too good.
@mhtv5959
@mhtv5959 Год назад
@@vigneshpadinjakkara de gea could've done a lot better in that match. His performance in that match was one of worst goalkeeping performance at World Cups
@amitmeena2961
@amitmeena2961 Год назад
If He goes for lift, the ball doesn't come down quick enough to hit the target. he has less confidence in those so he decides to channel his portsmouth power which he knows he is famous for and has confidence in it, it hits the wall in short range. he doesn't usually get long range free kicks much, if he does, a decent keeper parries it away.
@adamu8
@adamu8 Год назад
Most infuriating thing about his Juventus free kick struggles was the fact, that for majority of that time Juve had 2 great direct free kick takers - right-footed Pjanić and left-footed Dybala... Yet it was pretty much always Ronaldo who took them.
@panini15
@panini15 Год назад
And it was either straight into the stands or trying to injure someone in the wall.
@RandalfElVikingo
@RandalfElVikingo Год назад
Dybala lol.
@aaquibtayyabi
@aaquibtayyabi Год назад
and the only time dybala got to take a fk was if it was a very difficult angle. Even then I remember dybala scoring a fk vs Atletico from an impossible angle
@awaahsimon5259
@awaahsimon5259 Год назад
Not with Ronaldo there, how many has dybala and pjanic scored after Ronaldo was gone.
@Someone25948
@Someone25948 Год назад
@@panini15 Maybe he was trying to injure someone in the stands too? 🤔
@soumyadeepchatterjee6538
@soumyadeepchatterjee6538 Год назад
The dip in la liga average freekick efficiency after Messi left😭
@xacbertdebarbeira_
@xacbertdebarbeira_ Год назад
That's my main takeaway from the video as well.
@juniorkhomari1850
@juniorkhomari1850 Год назад
It wasn't great to begin with. Besides measi who else in LA Liga was great at feekicks? Madrid cant decide between Alaba, kroos and benzena. Grizeman has been terrible at them since rejoing atleti, parejo has declined as well. Canales and fekir sometimes score. So yeah, La Liga was awful and still is
@mthunzimapatwana
@mthunzimapatwana Год назад
@@juniorkhomari1850 That's what were saying
@brinydemon0321
@brinydemon0321 Год назад
@@juniorkhomari1850 Enis Bardhi
@Alberto-xz7th
@Alberto-xz7th Год назад
@@juniorkhomari1850 parejo
@milktea2422
@milktea2422 Год назад
It’s because he literally does his little routine before shooting and that prepares goalkeepers. Messi on the other hand can either shoot or pass because that’s what his history has shown. If Ronaldo whipped in a ball and someone scored it, after doing his routine, then he could score more. I mean Messi literally was doing just whatever with his free kicks some times. Power shots, curled shots, low driven, chip shots, passes, he’s scored form ridiculous free kick angles as well. He has variety for free kicks and that’s basically the equivalent of being two-footed so goal keepers and defenders don’t know where you’re going or when you’re shooing. However Ronaldo always shoots, it’s a lot easier to save a shot if you know they’re going to shoot instead of putting a ball in the box.
@kukunase1686
@kukunase1686 Год назад
Messi doesnt do power free kicks
@samo6083
@samo6083 Год назад
@@kukunase1686 he has tho, the point is you don't know what he'll decide to do
@jonathana6943
@jonathana6943 Год назад
@@samo6083 I remmber his frrekick vs atleti in 2017 i think where it hit the crossbar
@jopearson6321
@jopearson6321 Год назад
This is exactly it. I think it's something that lots of people miss about football in general, which is: anything you expect from an opponent is relatively easy to stop, and anything unexpected is comparatively difficult. Players who can disguise their intentions can very easily bypass their opponents. Look at compilations of Messi's goals. He gets incredible mileage from the fact that its very difficult to predict from his body language or shape or position on the pitch the exact moment he'll pull the trigger, and his actual technique is really quick. Without forewarning, his shots just fly past goalkeepers who aren't quite ready for it. But given a quarter-second longer to prepare they'd have a good chance of stopping it. Another more minor recent example: Check out highlights of Arsenal new boy Kiwior. There are plently of times he will dribble/flick the ball past a pressing attacker at point blank range despite not being particularly fast. If you watch closely, it'e because he's got the ability to disguise all the tells and signals that he's about to pull it off. It looks like he's about to be diapossessed as the last defender, and then the tables turn and he's able to freely advance up the pitch with the pressing attacker left standing behind him.
@chupschupa
@chupschupa Год назад
That would be true if keepers saving the ball were the main reason he didn't score. However, even though the video doesn't show it, Ronaldo would miss the goal completely. So even if the keeper had been surprised taking a dump, the ball would never have gone in.
@tjt6821
@tjt6821 Год назад
Pretty good at a time, pretty terrible in recent years, those United Free-kicks were something else.
@PessiTheFraud
@PessiTheFraud Год назад
If he never got injured he would have had 70 freekicks to his name by now The GOAT 😢
@nikosofidemporas
@nikosofidemporas Год назад
@Madrid is love Yeah those ended around 2013 so more than half his career he has been bad.
@patrickdiao
@patrickdiao Год назад
@@nikosofidemporas *2014
@nikosofidemporas
@nikosofidemporas Год назад
@@patrickdiao Yeah I meant that 2013 was the last year he was good at freekicks.
@antiwokehuman
@antiwokehuman 9 месяцев назад
@@PessiTheFraudexcuses😂. Hes just bad at it. Just admit it already penaldog
@bluemonk9480
@bluemonk9480 Год назад
I remember that 3-3 freekick against spain like it was yesterday. I remember there was this feeling that it was obvious he was gonna score from there. I don't know why but in that moment it felt like he was the best free kick taker in the world.
@Eterrath
@Eterrath Год назад
This. That moment was so poetic it felt like reality itself would break if he didn't score at that moment. Of course, one can argue there are moments even more poetic and tense, and I'm not even a fan, but that's just what I felt at that moment and I remember it vividly.
@sparshkhurana5390
@sparshkhurana5390 Год назад
It was a clutch situation and as far as I have seen football, he's the most clutch player so it explains.
@otto_jk
@otto_jk Год назад
I was solely on Messi camp for many years but I had put a bet for a draw for a tenner which back then seemed like a substantial amount of money. I became CR7 fan that instant and few years later stopped gambling
@ziplock8316
@ziplock8316 Год назад
That's truly an Instagram fangirls argument. The man hasn't scored half a decent freekick in the past 5+years. The one against Spain stands out cause it was luckily a clutch goal and it was the only goal of a kind he's managed to slot in years. He's probably not the best fk taker in Portugal either.
@Eterrath
@Eterrath Год назад
@@ziplock8316 OP didn't pose an argument. Not everything everyone says is an argument.
@AnotherAnonymousMan
@AnotherAnonymousMan Год назад
His rise in fame with free kicks was from knuckleballs. They were rare and less understood. But naturally they became less effective when teams expected him to do it, learned how to to deal with them, and he lost the sheer athleticism to do them emphatically. Without the novelty and brute force, they became less effective than a conventional well placed, well stuck curler. 🤷‍♂️
@samuraimath1864
@samuraimath1864 Год назад
He stopped doing so many knuckle balls after his injury.
@tobznoobs
@tobznoobs 4 месяца назад
yep that knucleball he did vs arsenal was insane, his athletic prime, before injuries set in.
@danielfreeman8725
@danielfreeman8725 Год назад
Part of being a good free kick taker is knowing when to play the ball into a dangerous area instead of shooting. Trying to explain away the lower efficiency rate because he happens to take more shots farther away doesn't strike me as a good argument, knowing when not to take that shot is absolutely a consideration when talking about somebody being good at free kicks. You frame it as "it's low BUT because of this" instead of framing it as "it's low because he's making bad decisions."
@josemou6172
@josemou6172 Год назад
That has nothing to do with being a good free kick taker. Thats just decision making and selfishness. Its not like he's stupid, he just wants to score a great free kick because he loves them.
@Jeff_2x
@Jeff_2x Год назад
Insane how Ronaldo got worse at free kicks as his career went on and Messi got better at free kicks as his career went on
@makchot3263
@makchot3263 Год назад
And pessi couldn't even score 8 goals in league 1 last season 🤡
@mhtv5959
@mhtv5959 Год назад
Because After Xavi left in 2015, Messi became the first choice so started taking all the Free-kicks and consequently scored more
@rubberducky8616
@rubberducky8616 Год назад
@@makchot3263 no world cup ronny? cry more
@makchot3263
@makchot3263 Год назад
@@rubberducky8616 ronaldo didn't pay the refs and stat pad with penalties at the world cup 🤡
@gauthamshivakumar
@gauthamshivakumar Год назад
@@makchot3263 literal tears bahahaa bro is saying a tournament is rigged cuz thats the only way ronaldo can come close to Messi's level
@HarshvardhanKanthode
@HarshvardhanKanthode Год назад
His Tendinosis is never covered in the media, that injury and the succeeding knee issues hampered his 2014 WC and completely changed his game from a winger to a monster finisher. Without it, we would have continued seeing the 2012-14 Ronaldo dribbles and flair well into his later years.
@eiskaltertorjaeger
@eiskaltertorjaeger Год назад
I also wonder why he never mentioned it himself. Maybe he doesnt want to use excuses,I dont know...
@riccardostopazzola7931
@riccardostopazzola7931 Год назад
are you serious? Are you arguing that tendinosis didn't allow him to dribble past defenders or shoot free kicks properly any longer, but that he could still be one of the fastest runners in all football and by far the best jumper ever? It's a blatant excuse. This knee injury would have allegedly made him worse at what he got worse, but somehow wouldn't affect all the physical aspects of the game which he maintained or improved.
@pitamberarora6232
@pitamberarora6232 Год назад
Messi also suffered a serious injury in 2013 which sidelined him for a good part of the year but Messi didn't change his playstyle drastically after that. He became an even more complete player.
@ziplock8316
@ziplock8316 Год назад
More like a monster tap in merchant. Where the entire team had to massage his ego and roll balls onto his feet for him to tap.
@usssouthdakota5541
@usssouthdakota5541 Год назад
@@pitamberarora6232 Tendinosis is Chronic, which means it will stay for a long time and destroy his left knee over time, Messi was injured, but he healed and now he's fine, Ronaldo's left knee will probably never fully heal ever again so he's basically been handicapped since 2014.
@Foggfjw
@Foggfjw Год назад
Most legendary ronaldo free kick is against germany, where he hit Lahm who was the only one in the wall. Probably harder than hitting the goal.
@sugarkookiewithsometae4245
@sugarkookiewithsometae4245 Год назад
Wasnt it Muller?
@iganpparamarta8813
@iganpparamarta8813 Год назад
At his best years he was excellent. He could score with 2 techniques, the knuckle shot vs Atletico's Courtois in 2011/2012, or the standard curler vs Atletico's Oblak (can't remember which season). And then the declining years where he'd always shoot it to the wall. He had a couple goals using curler (vs Torino and Sweden) but somehow he abandoned it and always back to hitting the wall technique. From a guy who was great at adapting to new roles and loved setting records, it's ironic that he didn't adapt his freekick technique to a better one. Maybe he wanted to set most freekick attempts?
@teegoyt.
@teegoyt. Год назад
it was his ego, because curlers were messi thing
@amda7882
@amda7882 Год назад
@@teegoyt. Dude not everything is about Messi. Maybe he was not as confident in curlers? Did you consider that?
@eureka0107
@eureka0107 Год назад
Because for something like deadball setpieces one tends to strike with whatever technique one's more mechanically confident with. He wasn't that comfortable hitting curl balls because he probably observed he wasn't very effective with it during training, so he favored his knuckleball instead. It's as simple as that, but since for something like FK taking your overall efficiency rate is objectively measurable and it can be compared to other player's, the ultimate conclusion that tifo shyed away from is that no, CR isn't a good FK taker. He was above average in some odd seasons and terrible at it in most, which by no means averages to good through his career.
@JoonKy
@JoonKy Год назад
There was a period where you knew he wasn't just going to miss, but sail it way over the goal.
@ucbrowser2447
@ucbrowser2447 Год назад
We still in that period
@arsenalunsungplays5188
@arsenalunsungplays5188 Год назад
He went beyond plus ultra
@iganpparamarta8813
@iganpparamarta8813 Год назад
It was more like slamming into the wall. In 2014 world cup he hit Muller, the only player in the wall.
@ellipsis...1986
@ellipsis...1986 Год назад
@@iganpparamarta8813 Yep, not going to lie - for me that is my most memorable Ronaldo fk moment. Laughing with friends before that about surely it doesn't make it past him and then sure enough...
@vedanthnair5443
@vedanthnair5443 Год назад
We're in 2 periods now Into the wall Or over the bar
@ubaidmalik2517
@ubaidmalik2517 Год назад
In Manchester back in days he was too good at free kicks. He was expected to score almost every game. His technique was top notch and on of my favourite of all time
@Thekingslayer-ig5se
@Thekingslayer-ig5se 5 месяцев назад
@Chris-zd7gwno he was great in united. Good in early Real Madrid days. After that he dipped
@Historelic
@Historelic Год назад
I remember two of his free kicks one against Wolfsburg is Champion's league and one against Spain in WC 18 both were scored in super high pressure games and both seemed almost impossible the Wolfsburg one especially
@jay6237
@jay6237 Год назад
Ronaldo getting cooked in the comments 😂😂😂
@zesrabtanjeelkhan377
@zesrabtanjeelkhan377 Год назад
Proves that he has more haters
@Anonymous-yy2dm
@Anonymous-yy2dm Год назад
@@zesrabtanjeelkhan377 That's not a flex Lmao
@jordanmince7613
@jordanmince7613 Год назад
@@Anonymous-yy2dm also not a flex to hate on someone you don't even know 🤷‍♂️
@ubaidmalik2517
@ubaidmalik2517 Год назад
What his haters can do the most. Hate on social media 😂
@evoke97
@evoke97 Год назад
imagine how much ronaldo would be laughing looking at their lives
@tynoArcher
@tynoArcher Год назад
I honestly think the main reason his free-kicking quality diminished drastically was simply because he stopped practicing as much. When he went to MU he was known for practicing his free-kicks for hours after training. This was at a time he was a midfielder and still needed to prove himself. When he went to Real, he was already a Ballon D'Or winner that had won everything at MU, plus, he switched positions to a more offensive role. I would argue at Real he practised free-kicks less because he had to focus on other Attacker qualities, and unlike Messi, Ronaldo is not pure talent, he is a product of hard-work, as he stopped practising free-kicks he got worse at it.
@suckieduckie
@suckieduckie Год назад
Is this just your own cope for his decline or is it actually based on numbers? Cristiano doesn't strike me as the type to stop practicing.
@Lucas-en3bt
@Lucas-en3bt Год назад
Messi pure talent? He used to be rubbish at free kicks, to the point where Maradonna had to explain to him how to kick them
@RealEyesRealiseRealLies
@RealEyesRealiseRealLies Год назад
Any footy player knows that the knuckle shot is a hit and hope but my god does it look good when it comes off
@daniaaal
@daniaaal Год назад
It’s all about the spectacle for Ronaldo
@GeraldLee21
@GeraldLee21 Год назад
out of curiousity. is it possible to do about all the top scoring freekick takers? would be interesting to see how all the great legends stacks up against each other.
@RightfootWestHam
@RightfootWestHam Год назад
Back in the day when watching Barcelona during their mighty era .... Whenever real madrid got a free kick I cheered "YES!" , I knew the first freekick always goes above to goal or straight up wide. Second freekick will hit the wall... and 3rd is the one you have to look out for, because thats when Cr7 had synchronized his shot.
@zainyardo1136
@zainyardo1136 Год назад
Interesting to consider how many freekicks he will have taken in a match before he scores
@RightfootWestHam
@RightfootWestHam Год назад
@@zainyardo1136 When you seen as many "El Classicos" as I have... you start to notice patterns. Cr7, amazing player but far from being good at freekicks.
@CYMotorsport
@CYMotorsport Год назад
“Comparisons and statistics only tell part of the story” NO. They tell the story. It’s just how lazy the data analysts/ writers want to be about it. I assume everyone here knows football. So obviously 2nd chance attempts are understood to be important. And it’s also critical to analyze players who shoot from dead balls do so with a high degree on target otherwise follow up is irrelevant. Ball flight is the key variable here. The keepers inability to maintain possession is key. It’s much like a long shot in hockey. They are fine if they are let glove side saves mitted and instead bobbled. For instance, of the past 100 free kick chances between 2019 and 2022, Ronaldo netted only 3. But 20 were directly on target and another 3 were scored on immediate follow ups. 16 needed to be saved. A heavy majority went straight to corners. And even more were low ricochets that stayed in the attacking 3rd. His free kicks were about maintaining Possession. Why does a channel with a million subs not investigate that? That’s interesting on its own. How about Ronaldo was solely responsible for delivering balls 35-25 yards especially whereas many other specialists had someone else serve these ? How about many other specialists have a significantly worse Rate at which possession is maintained? For instance Messi netted 8 in his last 100, but of those 92 remaining he was much worse at helping his club maintain the ball. Bc the delivering concept was entirely different and the purpose not the same, the small margins missed meant they were goal kicks mostly. But from indirect follows that we’re immediate plus direct goals, he’s not far behind the best in the world statistically. And not even factoring in his threat was upwards of 10 yards deeper than most others could provide. Inside 35 yards wirb Ronaldo you had to be wary of a goal. That’s much different defensively entirely than someone not matching this.
@subutaynoyan5372
@subutaynoyan5372 Год назад
In Utd spell, nobody doubted his free kick taking. But since over about 2013, he's just pathetic at it.
@acreditar-belive2950
@acreditar-belive2950 Год назад
right around his knee injury
@PDXKing99
@PDXKing99 Год назад
@@acreditar-belive2950 could it also be his technique? Should he just change how he approaches free kicks or how he shoots them?
@yaaobenewaah1697
@yaaobenewaah1697 Год назад
@@acreditar-belive2950 also the Knuckleball technique does not work well new balls
@alexs7028
@alexs7028 Год назад
@@PDXKing99 I have tried to play with an injured knee and the difference in my performance was drastic, trying to warm up taking free kicks was ridiculous I couldn’t get curl on the ball and could rarely get good accuracy on my shots. I don’t think I had any tendonitis but just bruising and stiffness around my knee, so what ronaldo has is no doubt worse.
@kohikappu
@kohikappu Год назад
Nah, 2014 was still considered as his best season. He went backward after the 2014 WC.
@KindredBrujah
@KindredBrujah Год назад
They didn't keep really detailed stats during his playing days, so it is difficult to do an empirical comparison, but most who watched him at the time tend to fall upon Juninho Pernambucano as the best (i.e. most consistent) free kick taker of all.
@KingKarimYT
@KingKarimYT Год назад
Used to be one of the best during his time at United and first few seasons in Madrid.
@milo631
@milo631 Год назад
He had his moments
@gabrielkowalski3086
@gabrielkowalski3086 Год назад
The goal keepers in general have gotten much better over CR7s career. You hardly see any long distance goal anymore. In general a modern top tier goalie is expected to hold every shot outside the box.
@thisIsFunnyLolz
@thisIsFunnyLolz Год назад
While tru that keeps have gotten better then you have to explain the Payet, Ward prowse, messi (for a time), maddison, etc free kicks performing quite well
@thisIsFunnyLolz
@thisIsFunnyLolz Год назад
@@hypie88 Are you talking about my comment lol? I am just speaking from the stats and my experience watching that yeah goalies have gotten better, but some free kick takers are still excellent with amazing conversion rates some seasons (ward prowse 20/21 was 20%) and others not so much including Ronaldo after a certain point. So it is less the keepers getting better and more like Ronaldo has just gotten plainly worse at them
@greyheart3001
@greyheart3001 Год назад
Since people always talk about how it was unfair to Dybala and Pjanic.I'll give a shout out to Gareth Bale who also suffered for this.Even though he was always beloved,Bale never seemed to get his recognition as a great free kick taker.I mean there was a time in Tottenham where he only knew how to score long shots and free kicks.
@HIGHHAMZ
@HIGHHAMZ Год назад
disrespecting ronaldo is a bandwagon that many creators been riding on and I am honestly tired of seeing people questionning this man's abilities to play the beautiful game. Let the man have a quiet retirement he deserves it I know this is a an amazing video and it's well made but nevertheless the guy was a genius on the pitch and watching him play felt like a lucid dream for years, it was so beautiful you could cry watching every single detail of it. Same goes for messi by the way but people disrespected greatly one of the greats and it hurts to see all the world doing this to a man that many thought he was a cyborg at some point the real original cyborg. Perhaps he was too good that people actually hated facing him and when a lion ages and show signs of weakness cowards strike perhaps that's why many people know loudly being negative towards the man instead of appreciating history being made right in front of them. I wish we get to see a player like him once again and relive something this absurdly breath taking.
@manwhoasked5942
@manwhoasked5942 Год назад
It's the black sheep effect. Apparently it's easier to fit in with the crowd and throw dirt on a great player than go against it and call them out. Makes me sick.
@JohnDoe-qm8ns
@JohnDoe-qm8ns Год назад
​@@manwhoasked5942 That's exactly what Ronaldo's crybaby idiot fans do to Messi. But now, he's the official GOAT.
@HIGHHAMZ
@HIGHHAMZ Год назад
@@manwhoasked5942 it's pure insanity
@arishemthejudge6780
@arishemthejudge6780 6 месяцев назад
glad there are people like you who dont follow the sheep. new fans join this sport at an exponential rate, and a lot of the social media users today have been watching since lockdown or sum, they only hate cr7 nothing else
@harukrentz435
@harukrentz435 Год назад
Yes he was in 2006 - 2009 😂 as a united fan i was spoiled with Beckhams Free Kick but Ronaldo took it to another level. I still remember his FK goals against Portsmouth in 2008 & Arsenal in 2009, those were glorious. IDK what happened afterwards, probably his ego and people dared not to tell him to change his FK style.
@brandonpellegrino
@brandonpellegrino Год назад
You don't even watch football, he scored more free kicks for Madrid than he did in Man U, his decline started like a year or two before leaving Madrid which is normaL. Don't talk about people's Ego that you don't know
@smoothcheeky8910
@smoothcheeky8910 Год назад
To compare Ronaldos freekick ability to Beckham's is ridiculous. Ronaldo scored flashier freekicks but Beckham was a different level. I would rather have Beckham with 1 freekick attempt than have Ronaldo with 2 attempts.
@harukrentz435
@harukrentz435 Год назад
@@smoothcheeky8910 thats because the longetivity of their respective career. Becks was in and out of european football by the time he was 31 years old, while Ronaldo was only entered his 2nd peak as footballer at same age. But the varieties of Ronaldo FK goals beat Beckham's.
@smoothcheeky8910
@smoothcheeky8910 Год назад
@@harukrentz435 the variety? Ronaldo only has 1 technique as well lol. Also Beckham being out of football so young just furthers my point. Beckham has more freekick goals than Ronaldo. Beckham is by far a superior set piece taker
@kohikappu
@kohikappu Год назад
@@smoothcheeky8910 Nah, Ronaldo has a lot of free-kick techniques, it has been well-known since his prior Manchester United days, it's just he tends or is prone to do knuckles more than curlers.
@Shad0w5carab
@Shad0w5carab Год назад
The fact that he was allowed to take free kicks ahead of Pjanic and Dybala is criminal. Two of the best in the world and they were stuck behind this siuuuuu merchant
@vedanthnair5443
@vedanthnair5443 Год назад
Bro scored once in like a solid 70 free kicks Dybala scored more in literally less games after his signing
@Simon-pg1bm
@Simon-pg1bm Год назад
Don't disrespect the goat ChriSHtian RUUUnald (Portuguese pronunciation).
@dimitarkaloyanov9188
@dimitarkaloyanov9188 Год назад
CR7 joined Juve 5 fkn' years after Dybala did and he STILL managed to score 100 goals for Juve faster than Dybala. There are levels and then there are LEVELS to this game. Stop being such a jealous petty wimp.
@vedanthnair5443
@vedanthnair5443 Год назад
@@dimitarkaloyanov9188 Brother we were talking about Free kicks And Ronaldo simply can't compare to Dybala
@Shad0w5carab
@Shad0w5carab Год назад
@@dimitarkaloyanov9188 not sure where in my comment I said Dybala was a better player than Ronaldo? Obviously he isn't, Ronaldo is one of the best of all time. HOWEVER, at that time Dybala was a much better free kick taker than Ronaldo which is why Ronaldo taking them ahead of Dybala was ridiculous
@StriderDSC
@StriderDSC Год назад
Funny thing is that Keylor Navas told him on several occasions if he took power off his free kicks and went for placement, he'd score way more goals.
@jerrycastaneda5262
@jerrycastaneda5262 Год назад
Oddly enough La Liga free kick drop off was the year MESSI left to PSG 🥲🥲🥲
@laujack24
@laujack24 Год назад
because no body in that league was good at free kick, most r average at best lol. I remember watching one game they give messi the same treatment as maradona and put a player next to the other goal post while the keeper cover his near post. u know u r dealing with a great free kick taker when they have to do this lol.
@jerrycastaneda5262
@jerrycastaneda5262 Год назад
@@laujack24 not only that they also started putting players laying down underneath the wall
@jesusojeda7850
@jesusojeda7850 Год назад
Someone has to say it and I will- Ronaldo on the floor demanding a foul to be called is such an iconic image.
@poiu77
@poiu77 Год назад
can you do a video on why juninho pernabecano was so good at free kicks ?
@KakarotOwns
@KakarotOwns Год назад
He was good early on, pre 2014 but people don't understand that injury he got in his left knee, he had to change and adapt because he couldn't dribble as much anymore too, he had to transition to a striker because of it.
@gauthambharati7474
@gauthambharati7474 Год назад
So you seriously telling shooting a knuckle ball in knee injury is easier than curling the ball??
@ralf4k
@ralf4k Год назад
I’ll never forget his free kick against Germany in 2014
@kopanomoss5752
@kopanomoss5752 Год назад
funny how he hit the only person just standing there
@misfittoy4078
@misfittoy4078 Год назад
also won't forget Messi's freekick against Germany. was heartbreaking.
@epicgamersvv1582
@epicgamersvv1582 Год назад
@@misfittoy4078 That freekick was like 200km from goal though.
@ElessarMMA
@ElessarMMA Год назад
​@@misfittoy4078 Are you seriously trying to argue that now, after the 2022 World Cup? Nice try buddy
@misfittoy4078
@misfittoy4078 Год назад
@@epicgamersvv1582 Yeah but still hurt man. Thank god he finally lifted the cup. It won't hurt anymore.
@AssasinFX
@AssasinFX Год назад
Thank you for making this. I'm sick of the myth that Ronaldo is one of the best freekick takers ever
@ubaidmalik2517
@ubaidmalik2517 Год назад
He is. Easily his freekicks are so iconic specially in his united days
@evoke97
@evoke97 Год назад
well he's scored 56 thats pretty up there, jwp only has 16
@daniaaal
@daniaaal Год назад
@@ubaidmalik2517 iconic free kicks does not equate to being the best free kick taker, as painstakingly explained in the video. He’s a scorer of iconic freekicks, but not a consistent scorer of one.
@ubaidmalik2517
@ubaidmalik2517 Год назад
@@daniaaal one of the best surely.
@tiscressen7985
@tiscressen7985 Год назад
He is lmao in his PRIME. However he didn’t keep that up due to injury and age.
@Crouchy232323
@Crouchy232323 Год назад
To be fair to him being the second best player called Ronaldo is an impressive feat
@muhammad4779
@muhammad4779 Год назад
@Crouchy232323 that's Ronaldo we're talking about, he doesn't like being 2nd best, monster mentality💪
@MeritoriousBoy
@MeritoriousBoy Год назад
Cristiano free Kick goals are enjoyable to watch
@pysky4u
@pysky4u Год назад
Yeah, if you’re over at row z, you’re always guaranteed a free ball
@MeritoriousBoy
@MeritoriousBoy Год назад
@@pysky4u I am not talking about Messi's penalty
@Zorto___1
@Zorto___1 Год назад
@@MeritoriousBoy And then you people do a 180 and say that he won the WC cos of pens, lol.
@MeritoriousBoy
@MeritoriousBoy Год назад
@@Zorto___1 no He won because of refereeing
@LoyalFan9383
@LoyalFan9383 Год назад
@@MeritoriousBoy Penaldo payed the refs and still lost to Morocco 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@ElMaestro1710
@ElMaestro1710 Год назад
The thing is afterall ppl will always remember Ronaldo's knuckle ball because of its uniqueness, just like how ppl remember Juninho's style or Beckham's, Carlos's. No one 's gonna remember Messi's freekick style because when it comes to swerve, Messi is no where to be matched with the likes of Beckham, Pirlo or even Ward Prowse
@shanelamar8857
@shanelamar8857 Год назад
Are you gonna cry😢?
@ElMaestro1710
@ElMaestro1710 Год назад
@@shanelamar8857 It's a fact. Effective or not, it's Ronaldo's trademark. He could had easily changed his FK's style but he chose not to even when he know he can no longer do the knuckle. That's just his ego, his character
@manwhoasked5942
@manwhoasked5942 Год назад
@@shanelamar8857 ironically, you seem like the one who's pressed, the other guy presented a fact, you're being top emotional about it.
@laujack24
@laujack24 Год назад
messi dont need people to remember him for freekick. he is a best dribbler in history, best finisher in terms of efficiency and one of the top 10 play maker/passer in history. combine all that u get to be called the goat, u dont need to be remember for something as freekick specialist altho he also good at it after he turn 28.
@manwhoasked5942
@manwhoasked5942 Год назад
@@laujack24 Messi ain't that good of a freekick taker either anyway.
@neikomccalla2623
@neikomccalla2623 Год назад
Love how unbiased this was. Great video.
@waleedgaming4910
@waleedgaming4910 Год назад
He is only there for the spectacle, thats his whole selling point.
@Chris-fh3qv
@Chris-fh3qv Год назад
I think he bought into his free-kick technique like he did his signature celebration. It was part of the "brand", that this is the way Ronaldo takes free kicks so this is the way it will be thus.
@ssdabel
@ssdabel Год назад
Guys, you're a bit late to the party. I don't think the vast majority assumes Ronaldo is good at free kicks anymore. So much so that I thought the vid will try to shock us by breaking down how he actually IS good at them, despite common belief.
@thomazdan
@thomazdan Год назад
Just reading the comments it's very simple to explain why Ronaldo got worse at free kicks: the knee injury he got in the early 2010's! After that injury his technique of power was never the same and he kind of lost his magic 🪄. Still he has some amazing free kicks like the one against Arsenal and the one against Spain.
@abhinavthakur4556
@abhinavthakur4556 Год назад
Tired of you people trying to gain subscribers/views on Ronaldo clickbait slander. Unsubscribing
@oa9606
@oa9606 Год назад
I remember at a period of time when he was in Real Madrid where opponents feared any free kick he was taking.
@vedanthnair5443
@vedanthnair5443 Год назад
Yep cuz that ball was coming on to their face
@16_bit_Jitu
@16_bit_Jitu Год назад
tendo-something i dont know. But he wasnt that careful while celebrating and saying sui
@JK_JK_JK_JK
@JK_JK_JK_JK Год назад
Next: Is Romeo Beckham A Good Footballer?!?! 🤔🤨🧐
@BigDeyum
@BigDeyum Год назад
Better than Ronaldo
@akg1301
@akg1301 Год назад
Nope the guy is like 19 years old and plays for Brentford B team
@NarukuSenpai
@NarukuSenpai Год назад
He just scored free kick recently,35+ yards against Abha 👍🔥
@FAKTANEGARASHORTS
@FAKTANEGARASHORTS Год назад
Ronaldo was the best "one season wonders" free kick takers
@jdderew1
@jdderew1 Год назад
It would've been great to see the free-kick rebound goals aswell since these were taken for that purpose. He did many of these free-kicks throughout his carreer, and, it's also why he took longer ranging free-kicks. These type of free-kicks make sense, specially from the more frontal areas where it's harder to cross, because they create 2 possible attempts at goal with relative ease, risk, and, to a lesser extent, corners. These were just a few thoughts out of the top of my head from whatching the video, not to mention, he essentially developed a new form of nuckle ball. It's strange none of this was mentioned, maybe it's more irrelevant than i thought.
@vedanthnair5443
@vedanthnair5443 Год назад
No it wasn't Ronaldos Free kicks have no intention of a rebound He takes them to score, because if he was looking for a teammate to score it would be more efficient to just play it in
@justindesouza977
@justindesouza977 Год назад
@@vedanthnair5443 mate, his primary intention is to score, but it also creates the opportunity for a rebound. can't believe this needed to be explained
@jdderew1
@jdderew1 Год назад
@@vedanthnair5443you would know
@Aperson-62
@Aperson-62 Год назад
Another thing with Ronaldo is that he almost always never scores free kicks against the biggest teams.
@HarshvardhanKanthode
@HarshvardhanKanthode Год назад
Well he scored one in the CL Semis against Bayern, one against Spain in a World Cup in his later years. A 40 yard screamer against Arsenal in the CL. And Ofcourse a lot of times against Atletico Madrid. All of them minnows as you can see.
@reivaldoaurelio4895
@reivaldoaurelio4895 Год назад
So who did you think scored the most freekick against biggest team ?
@davidlynch1263
@davidlynch1263 Год назад
Remember his freekick against 1-man wall in vs Germany? He managed to hit the 1 man wall....
@Andre-eo4xe
@Andre-eo4xe Год назад
He was good at freekicks I think as the years went by he either didn’t practice them enough or he didn’t find out what worked for him and perfect it
@KandaEzana
@KandaEzana Год назад
I feel this is exactly it. As his career progressed he became a bigger star with more business interests outside of football. At United, he was spending extra time practicing free kicks after training - even with van der Sar in goal, staying behind with him. I believe he clearly stopped doing that at some point at Madrid as he no longer had the time for it.
@MrPie-yb2py
@MrPie-yb2py Год назад
@@Buriboorizaemon was is not in 2014
@epicgamersvv1582
@epicgamersvv1582 Год назад
@@Buriboorizaemon It didnt though. Ronaldo was still clocking his fastest running speeds or his highest jumps after his injury. You cant use the injury as an excuse as to why he got worse at what he wasnt incredible at but not see a decline in anything else.
@manwhoasked5942
@manwhoasked5942 Год назад
@@KandaEzana Erik Ten Hag mentioned during the start of this season that Ronaldo takes a few more extra shots after each free kick session. You seriously think someone like Ronaldo doesn't like to train? I wanna see him curl some of those in, coz knuckleballs are high risk, high reward types.
@JohnDoe-qm8ns
@JohnDoe-qm8ns Год назад
​@@Buriboorizaemon Do you realize, that the knee injury thing was made up on Twitter? Even with his knee injury, the man can leap over buildings. Explain that.
@edmannope7497
@edmannope7497 Год назад
Last one he netted was in 1456 in Florence.
@vedanthnair5443
@vedanthnair5443 Год назад
Lol
@josemou6172
@josemou6172 Год назад
2nd half of the video is very good, you explained a lot of the context. 👍
@random-J
@random-J Год назад
His technique is such that if not practiced daily it won't work.
@12thMandalorian
@12thMandalorian Год назад
CR7 literally lived off his Portsmouth FK goal
@ЖавохирМустафоев-ц6б
His Ego always lets him down...He was superb at freekicks at Man united 2003-08 when Messi scored only 3.But year after year he got worse with losing power to knuckleball.Surprisingly he still curl the ball like 3-3 Spain, and Juventus -Girona 2-1.But still keeps doing the same rubbish
@Jack-sc3dn
@Jack-sc3dn Год назад
I’ve never seen a player who prides themselves on perfection seemingly make 0 effort to improve his technique after all these years of failed kicks that don’t even beat the walls
@rwalker0130
@rwalker0130 Год назад
interesting point. no sane person would criticize Ronaldo's work ethic so thats pretty crazy when you think about it. I guess its just due to his overconfidence which made him so great but has also proved to be his achilles heel over the last few years
@njabulomahlalela2912
@njabulomahlalela2912 Год назад
Do one on Juninho
@playea123
@playea123 Год назад
If the best recent FK taker’s conversion percentage is 10% . It’s fair to say that FK aren’t efficient ways to directly score in general. Yeah it’s cool when it happens and especially so from further away, but idk if it should contribute much to our evaluations since it’s such a low percentage.
@oliverwest5336
@oliverwest5336 Год назад
Really odd to do an analysis without covering xG. I thought you were going to when you mentioned he shoots from further out, a perfect way to reference the xG of his shooting compared to other players. example: scoring 10 goals from 5xG is more impressive than scoring 20 goals from 15xG, if we are considering above average performance to be the deciding factor.
@suckieduckie
@suckieduckie Год назад
It really doesn't though. It means that you are taking shots eventhough your own stats suggest that your chance of scoring is very low. Better to play the cross in that case.
@johnnkurunziza5012
@johnnkurunziza5012 Год назад
@@suckieduckie it doesn’t want your not making sense or you didn’t comprehend he was trying to convey.
@suckieduckie
@suckieduckie Год назад
@@johnnkurunziza5012 I did comprehend it's just rubbish. If you shoot from 40 yards every time you get the ball you might score once in a while, but it's stupid to do so. Trying to present that as 'impressive because difficult' instead of 'stupid because better options' is grasping at straws to make CR look better.
@johnnkurunziza5012
@johnnkurunziza5012 Год назад
@@suckieduckie l beg to differ, he’s 40 yard attempts have come clutch several times throughout he’s career think Arsenal 2008/09 CL Semi Final. I’m not saying it’s ideal of him to have utilise these free kick opportunities as he how he did, the simple point is to contextualise shining light on another variable which contributes to a poor conversion rate
@suckieduckie
@suckieduckie Год назад
@@johnnkurunziza5012 And I'm pointing out that this variable itself ignores any other option that might be better. "He scored goals from further out" is in no way a statement of quality, only decision making because other players aren't willing to take a 1/100 chance at a goal. After all there is no saying that a good cross against Arsenal wouldn't have also resulted in a goal, except that would be a 1/20 chance instead of 1/100.
@o0usf0o
@o0usf0o Год назад
I remember playing club soccer… our center forward took all our free kicks. He blasted every single one has hard as he could and maybe scored one goal of free kicks all year. He was out one game so I took our one free kick and scored…. Our coach never let me take another one again lol. Sometimes we cave to our “star players” even if it hurts out results.
@shaf621
@shaf621 Год назад
I'd say he was generally good, though in fact brilliant at them during his United days the Portsmouth and Arsenal ones come to mind, then even in Real Madrid in his first season 09/10, the ones against Marseille and Villareal, plus that clever low one against Bayern in 13/14 but after the injury in 2014 his free kick conversion declined significantly with the occasional great free kicks such as the Wolfsburg and the Spain one. You could tell that he couldn't go for pure power anymore compared to before which is what got him all those free kick goals- the signature knuckleball. I mean if Ronaldo wanted to be more effective he could have realised this weakness and changed his style, had someone else take them to give him a scoring opportunity or even turned his free kicks into long balls/crosses to get an assist in.
@shandyistheboss
@shandyistheboss Год назад
Freekicks totally summing up Ronaldos attitude. He knows they aren't good when he poses and tries to hit them like a cowboy. But then again he knows perfectly he could easily hit them better with less force and other shooting style. But it's Ronaldo who does it all for the show and can't bear to lose hit identity which is and egocentric and selfish posterboy
@arthurmorgan332
@arthurmorgan332 Год назад
Like most Ronaldo records, it looks great from outside but when you dig into the data, you can clearly see how Messi is better.
@TA13OO
@TA13OO Год назад
Fr now the ronaldo posters come down as the messi one’s come up
@amda7882
@amda7882 Год назад
The data shows one player staying in La Liga and Ligue 1 his whole career. While one spent half of it in the Prem and Serie A. Shows that Messi never challenged himself if that's what you meant.
@arthurmorgan332
@arthurmorgan332 Год назад
@@amda7882 Messi played with bunch of kids in World Cup and won it. Your point is moot.
@kennycota5099
@kennycota5099 Год назад
Gone from being scared of his free kicks going in to just being scared for the testicles of anyone standing in the wall
@Kspat2
@Kspat2 Год назад
After he hurt his knee in 2014 his free kicks lost their zip.
@laujack24
@laujack24 Год назад
he lost way more then just free kick, he lost his dribble ability along side pacing. I'm still not convince that was due to his injury, its more to do with aging. his style of play like all winger will lost its pacing eventually at similar age due to deteriation of his muscle. you either follow robben or ribery continue with their old style u become injur prone or like ronaldo u have to switch style and become a tap in/ post style player. there is no other choice, something mhappe will have to face in 4-5 years time, player rely on pacing to gain advantage can only do it with in a very short time window.
@Kspat2
@Kspat2 Год назад
@@laujack24 go watch his free kicks pre 2014 to post 2014 after his bad knee injury and you will see it. Plus him playing on that injured knee in the 2014 world cup didn't help things.
@laujack24
@laujack24 Год назад
@@Kspat2 hard to believe those story when he jump above every one else to tap in header. its just normal deteriation of his body, all good winger face these problem after 28 he wouldn't be the exception.
@Hamzz25
@Hamzz25 Год назад
That knee injury in 2014 really ruined his freekicks 😓😓. Ronaldo was the best freekick taker itw in his prime . He was bagging them in regularly then his knee messed it up
@LoneWolfCODYT
@LoneWolfCODYT Год назад
It's not up for discussion that before the injury Ronaldo was one of the very greatest long range free kick takers of all time. The same applies for overall free kicks. Ever since the injury. He's become dreadful at them and should've stopped taking then but it doesn't even come close to destroying his legacy, which is why a Ronaldo free kick will always be a special moment.
@suckieduckie
@suckieduckie Год назад
Honestly how many long range free kicks did he actually score? To me it seems like he tried so often that some were bound to go in at some point. Juninho also scored 40 yard free kicks, three of them over 40 yards in fact, and he had much better precision.
@rodrigovillate6463
@rodrigovillate6463 Год назад
Most people don't get how difficult is to use power. It puts a great deal of pressure in your back, abs, knees and if you practice knuckleball, your ankle-foot region, it's really hard to consistently strike the ball like that, let alone score and moreover, do it under pressure. Not only his FK got damaged, his long shots too, after the 13-14 campaign on which he went and played the WC when he absoultely shouldn't have, his long shoots were fewer every year, he scored like 4-5 or more per season, but those become 1-2 every year. He is the only forward who tried shoots from so far away, his conversion has been always not the best because he tries really hard shoots. That comes to tell you, stats don't tell the whole story.
@suckieduckie
@suckieduckie Год назад
Shooting from a range where you are unlikely to score instead of playing a pass to a player that is more likely to score, is not a sign of a great player. You can see this at Real Madrid. Benzema and Higuain struggled to get over 15 goals while playing with Ronaldo. Higuain leaves and he scores 30 in Italy. Ronaldo leaves and Benzema is suddenly Ballon D'or material. Ronaldo joins Juventus and Dybala is but a shadow of his former self. Why? Because he takes so many shots that other players don't have a chance to shine. That's fine if you're bagging 40-50 goals a season, but any less and your team suffers.
@faissal3055
@faissal3055 2 месяца назад
Aged well
@chrisr1415
@chrisr1415 Год назад
Would love to see the same for the aforementioned Beckham, JWP
@susbedo9258
@susbedo9258 Год назад
CR7's earlier success with free kicks is largely due to his pure athleticism in making his shots with power and speed, not placements. Think of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Roberto Carlos. Once teams found out that CR7 doesn't place at the corner most of the time, he's been found out and hence his free kick conversion dwindles significantly
@shaf621
@shaf621 Год назад
Yeah you can argue that Ronaldo's free kicks were probably not as accurate as we thought they were, where it was in fact the pure power and speed of the ball that actually made them go in and of course as you age those athletic abilities would inevitably decline as it did with Ronaldo in recent years.
@dondidi2726
@dondidi2726 Год назад
Its crazy how so many people dont know about his 2014 injury😂🤦🏾‍♂️ He played on pure football intelligence since then, which explains the role switch! FreeKicks were part of his brand and maybe a contract closure at evry club🤷🏾‍♂️!
@mljh11
@mljh11 Год назад
*"WAS* Cristiano Ronaldo good at free kicks?" I love that we're now talking about him in the past tense. Has-been.
@opinionatortv6457
@opinionatortv6457 Год назад
And you are?
@mljh11
@mljh11 Год назад
@@opinionatortv6457 not a dumb fanboy. What about you?
@HarshvardhanKanthode
@HarshvardhanKanthode Год назад
He's about to turn 38 lol, R9 hung up his boots at like 34. Cristiano has won it all, nothing more to prove
@metalpipe41
@metalpipe41 Год назад
@@HarshvardhanKanthode his most prestigious award the Dubai d'or
@opinionatortv6457
@opinionatortv6457 Год назад
@@metalpipe41 He's won the Balon d'Or FIVE times, second most on history. You can call Messi the Goat but don't disregard CR7
@elevatedperformance
@elevatedperformance Год назад
You got a player who had some serious injuries nobody ever talks about. Messi for the most part his injuries were not as big of a factor as Ronaldo’s knee injury. I wanna say ronaldo is so fit he was able to bounce back but into a different role but only the true CR7 fans will know how his speed was before the knee problem. It was unreal
@rotua98
@rotua98 Год назад
yes he is not the efficient one, but when he score that freekick with his iconic power shoot it just feels good to watch and a memorable moment as United fans its easy to say goal against Arsenal and Portsmouth as the best, but for me i prefer his freekick agaisnt Apoel Nicosia, just watch the fancam video from the stand behind him 👍👌
@k-lebo6123
@k-lebo6123 Год назад
Have always thought his free kicks were overrated because, on the odd occasion they came off, they were spectacular. Watching him line it up in the later years was eye-roll inducing, particularly as there were usually free kick takers in the squad who were better than he ever was.
@KeithSweatin
@KeithSweatin Год назад
Lol come on Tifo. That title is a Troll😅
@JK_JK_JK_JK
@JK_JK_JK_JK Год назад
🙄
@jds6437
@jds6437 Год назад
Why? It answered the question it asked in the title?
@KeithSweatin
@KeithSweatin Год назад
@JDS. Messi total free kick attempts are far less than Ronaldo. CR7 took more shots, lowering his average. Other leagues took far less direct shots. Ronaldo is still good at free kicks. Not bad whatsoever. Messi maybe better. Hence title is Troll-ish.
@andrasszabo1570
@andrasszabo1570 Год назад
@@KeithSweatin How is Ronaldo still good at free kicks even though he has been one of the worst free kick takers for the last 5 years?
@Goofy8907
@Goofy8907 Год назад
These stats don't say much if not adjusted for range/xg
@TuneSquad296
@TuneSquad296 Год назад
Ronaldo has scored over 50 or 60 free kicks, he was amazing at them, not anymore though. His Knuckleball technique is still the best i've seen.
@ihavenoidea4727
@ihavenoidea4727 Год назад
I dont think this is a fair evaluation for 1 simple reason: Ronaldo took knuckle ball power free kicks bc it looked cool when he scored and that's what we came to expect. His regular boring curved free kicks were efficient whenever he would try them.
@dinosutra
@dinosutra Год назад
The man who can find only one man in the wall and manage to hit him is definitely good at free-kicks... Messi can never do that... 🤣🤣🤣🐪🐪🐪
@tiscressen7985
@tiscressen7985 Год назад
In his prime he struck it realllyyyy well. But 2014 not only toned down his free kicks but also other facets of his game. He would be around 75 if he kept pace. Also him taking any free kick from 40 yards or so effects his efficiency a lot
@charliecharles2571
@charliecharles2571 Год назад
Basically he's dumb because he shoots from literally everywhere because he is unaware that scoring from a freekick near the midfield is almost impossible.
@austinjoseph9191
@austinjoseph9191 Год назад
@@charliecharles2571 i mean he has scored one when he was at man utd from long distance and also one when he was at real madrid the fact that he has scored matters a lot.......
@charliecharles2571
@charliecharles2571 Год назад
@@austinjoseph9191 it should also matter that for literally years he had a good 50/50% chance of hitting either someone on the pitch or some random bird outside the stadium.
@austinjoseph9191
@austinjoseph9191 Год назад
@@charliecharles2571 yes for the later part of his carrier i would agree when u put it that way ur previous comment was bit too harsh calling him dumb ......yes if u mentioned "for many years now" i totally agreee
@charliecharles2571
@charliecharles2571 Год назад
@@austinjoseph9191 I mean if he actually shoots to goal a free kick basically on midfield and never scores you can't disagree with me that that is definitely something stupid to do.
@DJMavis
@DJMavis Год назад
No
@shaleendass
@shaleendass Год назад
Lol ungrateful brats hating on Messi and Ronaldo 😂. Be grateful we got to see them together at all, Had they come at different times they both would have single handedly dominated football for themselves!
@gameplayerbr4962
@gameplayerbr4962 Год назад
These comments are cancerous, Ronaldo might as well have become the most underrated and disrespected player ever. Yes, he hasn't been able to hit them for a while but he has what, 60 free kicks? Must have been all luck, huh? His free kicks were unreal at United and also at the first half at Madrid. Then he got the tendinosis and it got bad. Most players would have become instantly washed up, he went on for almost a decade more.
@samo6083
@samo6083 Год назад
@hfc nahh, not messi
@ubaidmalik2517
@ubaidmalik2517 Год назад
@@samo6083 avg Messi fan.
@samo6083
@samo6083 Год назад
@@ubaidmalik2517 I'm a fan of a man of completed football. You ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ModernFootball866
@ModernFootball866 Год назад
Most underrated player? He is one of the best of all times, but he is more overrated (not bad) than underrated. Why? Bcs of this forced debate between him and Messi while everyone who understands football knows that Messi is the better player. He is more overrated bcs many. He's more overrated because so many people put him on par with Messi
@ubaidmalik2517
@ubaidmalik2517 Год назад
@@ModernFootball866 people put him above Messi because he is good. Has been very good. If you are watching football since 10+ years you will know the debate is not forced.
@bletrick3352
@bletrick3352 Год назад
It’s not about conversion rates Ronaldo has over the years taken less and less free kicks I mean at Juventus he averaged 1 every other game and they weren’t all in great positions either. Also at United 1 goal in 8 attempts in 2021-22 is 12.5% conversion rate why does it say 0?
@JK_JK_JK_JK
@JK_JK_JK_JK Год назад
Next: Is the French League a Good League?!?! 🤔🤨🧐
@josemou6172
@josemou6172 Год назад
Its clear that people comment before watching the full video. They comment based off of the title only.
@oh1yeah2
@oh1yeah2 Год назад
As with everything about him, more style than substance
@jakehyams8659
@jakehyams8659 Год назад
I don't like him either but there is a lot of substance to his numbers
@HarshvardhanKanthode
@HarshvardhanKanthode Год назад
How about his 5 CLs (top scorer in each), first title for Portugal, 7 League wins in 3 different leagues, 4 golden boots, all time international top scorer, 5th in all time assists, and 800+ goals. Is that enough substance for you?
@evoke97
@evoke97 Год назад
cr7 haters are so dumb lmao you might not like his attitude but his career has plenty of substance
@ModernFootball866
@ModernFootball866 Год назад
@@HarshvardhanKanthode It's enough substance to be the second best player of his generation.
@ubaidmalik2517
@ubaidmalik2517 Год назад
@@ModernFootball866 first*
@luthandohlatuka7113
@luthandohlatuka7113 Год назад
He was for a period while playing for UTD and his early career at Real Madrid.
@ubaidmalik2517
@ubaidmalik2517 Год назад
He was actually good in Real Madrid. Idt so anyone else would have scored 32 freekicks at Real Madrid.
@kerylmcjohnson9537
@kerylmcjohnson9537 Год назад
Ronaldo's long range goals, dribbling and free kick success declined significantly after his diagnosis in 2014. Those two injuries (in 2014 and 2016) are literally career-ending. It's a wonder how he continued to this day.
@zulalulua9645
@zulalulua9645 Год назад
His free kicks are memorable mostly because of his antics and not necessary because of quality . Brilliant in and around penalty box striker he was , other then that its was all media hype and forced comparison with messi . By the way, the same people used his goalscoring record to put him alongside messi and Call him the best player now criticize probable naming of Haaland as the Pl player of year , arguing that football is not just goals and there are other players who has more influence on team with ball at their feet then Haaland playing in arguably best team in the world scoring lot of goals , true , but where is consistency ?? Hypocrisy beyond roof.
@kukunase1686
@kukunase1686 Год назад
the comparison isnt forced because they both have similar stats tho
@kukunase1686
@kukunase1686 Год назад
Pessi sucks dude. Ronaldo would have scored 1200 goals if he started in laliga only. Pessi dodged EPL. overrated dwarf
@samo6083
@samo6083 Год назад
@@kukunase1686 you literally missed the point🤣🤣🤣🤣
@HarshvardhanKanthode
@HarshvardhanKanthode Год назад
Ronaldo has had several versions as a player. 2003-09 Ronaldo who was primarily a midfielder who created chances, dribbled 2-3 players with ease, scored free-kicks, headers, weak foot goals and long shots as well. Personally i think 07-08 was his 2nd best version 2010-2013 Ronaldo who was at his fastest, scored and created consistently, still had the skills to dribble, and arguably even better at finishing. 2012 Ronaldo is the best in my opinion. 2014-2018 Finally in his finishing prime, he had one job which was to win games and he did. Brought down teams like Bayern, Atletico, Juventus, PSG in the CL on his own and consistently. Didn't dribble as much but still could, big match mentality. Imo 2017 Ronaldo is his 3rd best prime.
@HarshvardhanKanthode
@HarshvardhanKanthode Год назад
In Halland's case his most alike to the later Ronaldo phase, which takes nothing away from his game. He's a brilliant finisher, but to compare him with Ronaldo's completeness as a player is simply folly.
@ggmu4656
@ggmu4656 Год назад
Tifo doesn't even hide their hate for Ronaldo Love this channel but the hate for the guy is unreal Just cos he outright lost the debate doesn't mean he has lost all his greatness Still is one of the greatest players Put some respect to his name 800 +GOALS!!! How many players will ever reach that milestone not more than 3 or 4
@mangalam4891
@mangalam4891 Год назад
Yeah his 2014 injury took hard toll on his free kick abilities. It was pretty evident.
@BigDeyum
@BigDeyum Год назад
Lame excuse
@pppshaba4941
@pppshaba4941 Год назад
His knee injury didn’t affect his heading, sprint speed etc but just his free kicks? Stop making excuses.
@Anonymous-yy2dm
@Anonymous-yy2dm Год назад
Ye but he can still jump 200 metres in the air. His injury only affected his free kick ability it seems.
@MrPie-yb2py
@MrPie-yb2py Год назад
@@Anonymous-yy2dm lol good one
@laujack24
@laujack24 Год назад
he lost way more then just free kick, he lost his dribble ability along side pacing. I'm still not convince that was due to his injury, its more to do with aging. his style of play like all winger will lost its pacing eventually at similar age due to deteriation of his muscle. you either follow robben or ribery continue with their old style u become injur prone or like ronaldo u have to switch style and become a tap in/ post style player. there is no other choice, something mhappe will have to face in 4-5 years time, player rely on pacing to gain advantage can only do it with in a very short time window.
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