• 6 months ago
How Leeds planned Ilia Gruev's quick free-kick vs Norwich
Transcript
00:00 a great, great piece of, I don't know,
00:02 would you call it ingenuity, trickery,
00:05 straight off the training grounds?
00:08 You know, what sort of free kick are you describing that as?
00:11 - Well, this is why I asked Daniel Farke, you know,
00:13 was this just a bit of improvisation in the moment
00:15 from Gruev or was it something you worked on?
00:18 And Farke said that they spotted it.
00:21 Their analysts and Edmund Reamer were responsible
00:27 for spotting it and exploiting it.
00:30 They'd noticed that Angus Gunn,
00:32 little bit trigger happy perhaps with his positioning
00:35 at free kicks on that side.
00:37 And you could see in the replay that Gruev and Somerville
00:42 were like having a little conversation.
00:45 Is it on?
00:47 Shall I?
00:48 And Gruev turned to the bench actually,
00:50 I don't know if you saw,
00:51 and he made this kind of motion to ask,
00:53 am I whipping this one in?
00:54 Am I curling it across?
00:55 Or was it, perhaps he was saying actually,
00:58 am I going for goal here?
00:59 Because he was getting all excited about Angus Gunn
01:02 being that far to the other side of the goal.
01:04 But you still have to get it right.
01:07 The strike still has to be right.
01:08 And it has to not take a deflection on the way through
01:11 and it has to not get blocked.
01:13 It was a really good finish, really precise.
01:17 And Gunn wasn't gonna get back to it.
01:21 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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