Comments on: Do You Think Ronaldo Should Be Taking Our Free-kicks?

By: unitedgirl15

unitedgirl15 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:01:25 +0000

For me it’s either Hargreaves or Ronaldo.
And since we have no Hargreaves, it gonna be Ronaldo.

By: AZY

AZY — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:30:36 +0000

He scores a mighty lot against Portsmouth..doesn’t he.
the one team that tends to receive his power dead balls.

Ronaldo7 who else would u give but him..
he just popped 2 in last week and ur saying how he shudnt take all the dead balls. shame.

By: micheal

micheal — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:06 +0000

Wiggsman
ronaldo’s free kick ratio is getting there and I would pick ronaldo’s free kicks and the style over beckham any day of the week. If it is not going in the back of the net his style is so awkward and annoying to handle for keepers and defences it bounces back out and a united player may get on the end of it.

This article is a farce it would have been credible article between august 2003 and may 2006, but since the start of the 06/07 season and presently I would give all the free kicks to ronaldo. tevez is hardly playing at the moment and Rooney has not proven to be great free kick taker. Hargreaves is never fit to take them, and is giggs free kicks ratio are they any more better then ronaldo’s not a chance in hell. will giggs play more games then ronaldo this season no, so in all ronaldo is by a universal mile our most effective and our best free kick taker.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:18:55 +0000

Ronaldo has been struggling becasue Nike designed the new ball so it won’t swerve as much. Thats why he hasn’t had many of those nice swerving free kicks like he did last season.

By: Tom F

Tom F — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:38:52 +0000

I think Ronaldo does as much, if not more damage than anybody else taking them full time.

I think it’s the set pieces themselves that need looking at not the kick-taker. We need more variation, more short passes around the edge of the box and not always the obvious shoot or cross. Saying that, Ronaldo’s first goal the other day couldn’t have been more obvious.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:50:00 +0000

I feel that Ronaldo should take most of the free-kicks, as although his goal rate isn’t the best, who’s is in the Premier League?

When he gets the ball past the wall, in often flies in or is poorly parried away by the keeper setting up goals (like O’Shea and Berbatov, lets not forget). The only time I think he shouldn’t take them is when the ball is really close to the box, because Tevez, Hargreaves and Rooney have proved their ability in that area. However, saying that, Ronaldo scored one like that in the last game and in the past.

So really, Ronaldo should take as many as he has been, but I think someone else should take one once in a while as a curveball for the keepers.

By: DanS

DanS — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:49:39 +0000

Ronaldo!

Granted his freekicks haven’t been hitting the spot this season (so far), but the two against Stoke, amazing.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:44:08 +0000

hargreaves is a lousy no good free kick stealer. he wasn’t supposed to take them 2 against fulham and arsenal. that’s what we need more off. It’s a shame he’s injured but other players should look to do it as it catches everybody cold

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:19:07 +0000

Surely it should be horses for courses, the best players taking the kicks from their most favoured angle?

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:12:53 +0000

I’ve always thought he shouldn’t take them. He’s scored enough to make me think again, i.e. against Sporting Lisbon last year but it only takes another couple of games before I’m back to thinking he shouldn’t. Never has a free-kick taker relied so much on pot-luck as Ronaldo does, the swerving ball is still a little bit of a joke and you would imagine a good keeper would be able to adjust the couple of inches to punch it back out (don’t know what that makes sorensen). At a club like United there are so many good strikers of the ball and better ones at swerving free-kicks than Ronaldo, Rooney, Hargreaves when fit, didn’t Berbatov take Tottenham’s, Tevez, Giggs…the list could go on. United are a top club wihout any real prima donna’s but you get the impression that what Ronaldo decides on the pitch goes and people just say ‘ooooh, he’s a typical goalscorer, always wanting the ball’….This is ridiculous, it’s the lack of a Roy Keane figure who wouldn’t care about telling Ronaldo to give the ball to Berba that we miss in those situations…instead of this rotating +30 Manchester lad captaincy, just give it to 30yr old Rio permanently, he’d tell Ronaldo what to do and he has the big enough stature in world football for Ronaldo to listen although according to Fifa and UEFA John Terry had a better season last year than Rio….what a joke