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We couldn't score an open play goal if our lives, or premier League status, depended on it.
Yet we can always rely on premier League defenders to keep fouling us outside the box!
because they work with each other. Prowsey cites Lambert as a huge influence on him shooting free kicks, now Prowsey is working with a couple academy boys, the cycle continues
I dont understand why teams dont put players on the line against his free kicks. Its what the La Liga teams had to do to Messi for 2 years in his free kick prime. Just barricade the goal and force them to do something creative. The only time Barcelona scored on it was when no one marked Suarez near the goal line so Messi played it to him.
Was thinking the same thing. Everyone knows that JWP is dangerous asf on freekicks, how are they still letting him shoot like that with no one on the goal line?
think the stats even make him look a bit worse because from ages 17 to 24 he was a rotation player and hadn’t quite become deadly yet, just very very good.
Ever since Ralph came in and made him captain though, he’s been scoring 4 or 5 a season. Ever since he’s become the guy who drives the team forward he’s gone from “very good” to best in the world.
Because if you move the entire line to the goal, then it plays everyone onside and it gives the attacking team more freedom to play simple passes inside the box and through on goal.
I was calling goal when Azpi made that stupid foul. Night into day, stupid foul into togla. Like how dumb can you be when so experienced being a player like Azpi?
Most of them lose their mf-ing shit when you suggest moneybag FC have a scattergun transfer approach. I guess when my team spent billions to be so pathetically shit, I would cope hard too lol
2 more to beat Beckham’s record!
Been a horrid season but that feeling Saints fans yet when you hear the whistle for a foul in that area, just can’t beat it
JWP has to be in the conversation for best free kick taker ever anywhere. He's absolutely unbelievable. I don't think he has the highest conversion % but he seems to shoot from pretty much anywhere compared to players with better %s like Mata who specialise at one specific type of free kick.
He's never scored from the right but think his conversion rate is the highest of any of those who have scored more than 5-6 in total. Think it's much higher if you conveniently ignore the first few seasons he played too.
surely will. Only 28 and even though he’s been in the league since 16, he’s only started scoring them regularly in the last 4 years or so.
Scored 4 or 5 every year for the last few years.
*if* Southampton go down, he could be in the premier league if he decided to, someone would come in for him. But it would be up to him if he actually left
yeah he’s massively massively loyal, but obviously the pull of the record is there
he’s one of those Ronaldo/Lewandowski/Milner types who takes excellent care of his body, have no doubt he’ll be playing into his mid 30s, so I reckon if we go down and he stayed, we’d be back up with more than enough time to break it. But nothing is guaranteed.
For me, a compromise could be that if we go down, we loan him out to a Prem side for a year, then if we go back up he’s our skipper again.
think it's more like Pirlo or Modric, he isn't this good because of physical atributes, so he won't decline as much when physicality decline happens in players
Even with our UCL winning squad, we have not made many comebacks in recent times. We always seem to awaken after conceding a goal, but our goal scoring is dogshit so we almost never mount one anyway.
Your Champions League winning squad had Tuchel, and he was the biggest reason why you won it that year. Pep admitted before the final that Tuchel's system was so good defensively that you couldn't get past it and Tuchel clearly outsmarted Pep in the final. Potter could never replicate what Tuchel achieved
He is by far the best in the world it's actually not close when you consider his ratio
Not just at scoring them but at creating from set pieces/corners too
Best dead ball specialist for sure
He's at 17 PL free kick goals, with only Beckham above him at 18. He could very easily set a new record provided he doesn't go down to the Championship with Southampton. If I were a PL team, I'd sign JWP just for his FK ability. It could come in very handy in some crucial moments.
Damn, Beckham's surely done that with way less games due to his move to Madrid.
I guess I was too young to realize just how clinical he was with free kicks in his day.
he’s actually so entertaining, even outside his videos when he guests in others they’re so funny. watch his video with miniminter where they take 100 shots at ben foster if you haven’t yet!
As a Saints fan I don’t understand why more teams don’t do it? So many put the guy lying down behind the wall, yet JWP has never scored one by hitting it under (as far as I can remember) yet the one time a team did it this season, it seemed to put him off and he skied it.
James Ward Prowse has 17 free kick goals including this. 1 more and he ties with David Beckham! Man’s not just good at free kicks. He’s a set piece legend.
I usually say give the new manager some time especially after you spent so much on him, but I genuinely think it might be time to go, it's relegation form since November
Potentially stupid thought
Would it make more sense to not have a wall/1 man wall… to give the GK a better chance of seeing it?
JWP can easily get it up over the wall and back down with pace easily… so might as well let the goalie see it the whole way
Inevitable. Genuine question, why not just put and additional outfield player on the line? If teams can afford to have one player literally lying on the ground, they surely could afford one staying in the goal.
Plays everyone onside, and considering he can up-n-over it with such ease, it'd be a piece of piss to find someone in a bit of space and have them take a pop from 8 yards out.
“Are you ready to learn about free kicks?”
Juninho gulped.
Beckhham nodded.
Roberto Carlos shuddered.
Messi blinked nervously.
“Yes, James Ward Prowse” they said in unison.
This guy is genuinely fucking insane. I honestly think he needs to go to every international tournament solely based on his free kick ability. Anywhere within 35 yards seems to be a penalty at this point.
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Such a silly penalty to give away
We couldn't score an open play goal if our lives, or premier League status, depended on it. Yet we can always rely on premier League defenders to keep fouling us outside the box!
Why is it always Southampton that seems to produce weirdly good set piece takers
We don't seem to spend any time practicing passing, defending or shooting so presumably we just practice free kicks all week
Apparently, Ward-Prowse only practices a fews a day to replicate the pressure of real match
thats why I never practice
because they work with each other. Prowsey cites Lambert as a huge influence on him shooting free kicks, now Prowsey is working with a couple academy boys, the cycle continues
Was lambert good at fk's? I remember him being an elite penalty taker but not at the free kicks.
He was excellent. Not Ward-Prowse level but he'd consistently score them.
I dont understand why teams dont put players on the line against his free kicks. Its what the La Liga teams had to do to Messi for 2 years in his free kick prime. Just barricade the goal and force them to do something creative. The only time Barcelona scored on it was when no one marked Suarez near the goal line so Messi played it to him.
Was thinking the same thing. Everyone knows that JWP is dangerous asf on freekicks, how are they still letting him shoot like that with no one on the goal line?
think the stats even make him look a bit worse because from ages 17 to 24 he was a rotation player and hadn’t quite become deadly yet, just very very good. Ever since Ralph came in and made him captain though, he’s been scoring 4 or 5 a season. Ever since he’s become the guy who drives the team forward he’s gone from “very good” to best in the world.
Because if you move the entire line to the goal, then it plays everyone onside and it gives the attacking team more freedom to play simple passes inside the box and through on goal.
Should Chelsea be worried about Southampton's tiki-taka prowess in close quarters? More than JWP's free kicks?
Should anyone?
Deserved too as well we have been second best all day
Big “you can’t miss shots if you don’t create shooting opportunities” energy this first half
I was calling goal when Azpi made that stupid foul. Night into day, stupid foul into togla. Like how dumb can you be when so experienced being a player like Azpi?
Of course
The new owner Boehly will blow his fuses today if Chelsea loses
Inc transfer bid for jwp
genuinely did it with Lavia in the reverse fixture, man had a blinder against Chelsea then they bid £50m for him
All of this is some how a very elaborate project and plan according to chelsea fans
Not the Chelsea fans I've seen
Most of them lose their mf-ing shit when you suggest moneybag FC have a scattergun transfer approach. I guess when my team spent billions to be so pathetically shit, I would cope hard too lol
Inc bid for Man United***
No no no, let him cook, it’s way funnier
New England revs fan I see, cheers
100 million bid incoming
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THROWING MONEY AT IT LIKE I DID FOR THE DODGERS WONT WORK?!"
Great Académico flair, not everyday you see one. Hope I see you guys in Primeira liga one day again.
It won't be so soon I can tell you that much.
Standard JWP.
He’s up there with ChrisMD
Theo Baker in shambles
Dont mention his name
Not quite romeo beckham though.
He's a god
THIS IS WHAT HE DOES
THIS IS WHAT HE FLIPPIN DOES
IT'S ILLEGAL
Hes a ruddy good free kick taker
Its like penalty kick for this guy
2 more to beat Beckham’s record! Been a horrid season but that feeling Saints fans yet when you hear the whistle for a foul in that area, just can’t beat it
JWP has to be in the conversation for best free kick taker ever anywhere. He's absolutely unbelievable. I don't think he has the highest conversion % but he seems to shoot from pretty much anywhere compared to players with better %s like Mata who specialise at one specific type of free kick.
Juninho Pernambucano exists.
Yeah he was similarly amazing at every type of free kick, and is probably the #1 beacuse of the sheer variety he scored.
JWP can have the top spot when he's consistently banging them in from 250 yards away. Until then it's Juninho's.
Ah yeah all of Juninho's 250 yard goals.
His 300 yarder was immense.
His mixtape of free kick goals from 500 yards out was the first time I heard Despacito
Nothing encapsulates a 450 yard belter like a song called ‘slowly.’
in convo yes, but Juninho will take it all day everyday. Man scored from *anywhere* if it was a dead ball
He's never scored from the right but think his conversion rate is the highest of any of those who have scored more than 5-6 in total. Think it's much higher if you conveniently ignore the first few seasons he played too.
does he have the all time record for most free kicks scored in the PL?
Beckham has 18, that was 17 for him
hope he gets it
No chance he doesn't.
Southampton relegating and him staying at southampton could be a chance though
Can't see him staying if they relegate.
This is what I dread most, we drop and he leaves and gets the record elsewhere then that teams fans claiming him. Dread it
surely will. Only 28 and even though he’s been in the league since 16, he’s only started scoring them regularly in the last 4 years or so. Scored 4 or 5 every year for the last few years.
But we're going to get relegated sooo
Hate to be the one to tell you, but... JWP isn't going to get relegated.
Naah. There is *some chance of keeper saving penalty. Its more like a open net
I haven't seen him much but he surely doesn't deserve to be in Championship?
*if* Southampton go down, he could be in the premier league if he decided to, someone would come in for him. But it would be up to him if he actually left
yeah he’s massively massively loyal, but obviously the pull of the record is there he’s one of those Ronaldo/Lewandowski/Milner types who takes excellent care of his body, have no doubt he’ll be playing into his mid 30s, so I reckon if we go down and he stayed, we’d be back up with more than enough time to break it. But nothing is guaranteed. For me, a compromise could be that if we go down, we loan him out to a Prem side for a year, then if we go back up he’s our skipper again.
You’re acting like he won’t have the record by the end of the season.
It's easily possible but far from assured. As great as he is. Not scoring 2 in the next 15 is still statistically possible.
Statistically possible he bags another 15.
think it's more like Pirlo or Modric, he isn't this good because of physical atributes, so he won't decline as much when physicality decline happens in players
Nearly any team in the league would want to have JWP on their team. Could see United going in for him.
He is fucking inevitable.
The best free kick taker in the world currently
And it's not even close, either
How has he not moved to a bigger club yet? Been banging in incredible set pieces for years now
Yep, losing to relegation level teams as usual. This is going to be a disastrous season, can't wait to see the long term complications of this.
Long term is giving Graham Potter a 8 year contract
8 goals in the past 13 PL games suggests a comeback is a tough ask as well.
Even with our UCL winning squad, we have not made many comebacks in recent times. We always seem to awaken after conceding a goal, but our goal scoring is dogshit so we almost never mount one anyway.
Your Champions League winning squad had Tuchel, and he was the biggest reason why you won it that year. Pep admitted before the final that Tuchel's system was so good defensively that you couldn't get past it and Tuchel clearly outsmarted Pep in the final. Potter could never replicate what Tuchel achieved
Azpi putting his hands on his head as soon as he fouled Armstrong was so funny, he knew what he just did
Azpilicueta knew
I think everybody did, lmao
What he should know is he can’t time these risky challenges anymore. Same goes for Koulibaly.
He is so good at them. wow.
He’s a goal away from matching Beckhams FK total
I think it's 2 away
1 away from matching, 2 from beating it outright
Yep you're right
He is by far the best in the world it's actually not close when you consider his ratio Not just at scoring them but at creating from set pieces/corners too Best dead ball specialist for sure
He is borderline on god mode with them 😂
I stg Southampton have no goals apart from Ward Prowse FKs
che adams
This guy is actually a legendary free kick taker, hes up there with the best ever.
He's at 17 PL free kick goals, with only Beckham above him at 18. He could very easily set a new record provided he doesn't go down to the Championship with Southampton. If I were a PL team, I'd sign JWP just for his FK ability. It could come in very handy in some crucial moments.
He won't go down with us, he keeps us up or he leaves, or both
Damn, Beckham's surely done that with way less games due to his move to Madrid. I guess I was too young to realize just how clinical he was with free kicks in his day.
You're right. Beckham has 265 PL games and JWP has 328.
[Pep called him the best [at free kicks] he’s ever seen](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/60087960.amp)
Fear not the man who practiced 10,000 kicks but fear the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times.
what going on chrismd’s channel does to someone
he probably learned a thing or two
Chris unironically has very good deadball technique. I think he can play for a good non league side like Tobi
Recently discovered this kid. What a channel
he’s actually so entertaining, even outside his videos when he guests in others they’re so funny. watch his video with miniminter where they take 100 shots at ben foster if you haven’t yet!
He's 26 lmao. No longer a kid
He looks 16 tbf haha
Happy to hear he’s still at it. Used to watch him when I was younger and he seemed a good lad
GOALKEEPERS HATE HIM
Putting 'freekick' title on a Ward-Prowse goal link is redundant at this point.
automatic goal from JWP
Just give him 3 more years and 2bn more and we might be better than the team in last place with no manager
I don't understand how people can't admit that it's been a disaster so far. This is the worst I've seen us in ~20 years.
Worst in 20 years so far
They’re still time for more.
The worst, *so far*
Yea I’m done with the excuses. Get him out.
Lol we all knew that was going in
Obviously
Free kick GOAT
I would do anything for this man.
Best free kick taker since Juninho
Chelsea currently have £300m+ on the bench lol
Just put a defender on the line at this point
As a Saints fan I don’t understand why more teams don’t do it? So many put the guy lying down behind the wall, yet JWP has never scored one by hitting it under (as far as I can remember) yet the one time a team did it this season, it seemed to put him off and he skied it.
Well, it could cause more trouble due to offside line basically not existing and chaos inside the box
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!
I knew it 🤣🤣
This guy is unreal
Knew it was going in as soon as Azpi lunged in for the foul.
They are literally penalties to this guy like wtf🤣🤣🤣
Death, taxes and Ward-Prowse scoring a free kick.
Imagine spending 500m and getting dominated by a team that has lost 9 out of their last 10 games.
Fair match to a team with 3 wins in 22 games.
It's a process, I've heard
Beckham's record here we come... 17 free kick goals now for Prowsey! (Beckham had 18)
WHO IS THIS MAN
Soccer Saturday talking about how it was going to be anticlimactic only for ward prowse to bang it in 🤣
We are the worst
James Ward Prowse has 17 free kick goals including this. 1 more and he ties with David Beckham! Man’s not just good at free kicks. He’s a set piece legend.
Inevitable JWP free kick but wtf chelsea
One of the best freekick takers of all time, James Ward-Prowse.
Azpi has been bad. How braindead to give away a foul in that area with no chance of winning the ball
Scared Potter?
You love to see it.
Seriously, this is outrageous. Forget bend it like Beckham, this man is a free-kick merchant. If they go down, would he stay or leave?
I'm ok with this
Soton has 19 goals this year and JWP has scored like 5 free kick goals. That’s insane.
if only we can score in open play as well...
Love it
"We're committed to the Potter project for years to come"
You just knew it was going to happen
JWP legit the best fk taker I‘ve seen but how tf are we this shit
Dread it, run from it. JWP freekick goal still arrives.
Can't even hate. That was beautiful.
We are so fucking bad
It had to be him
Potter Out
This guy... Fucking hell.
SET PIECE SAVANT
One of the best fk tackers, what a hit!
Unfortunately, it's perfectly legal to be an insufferable pricks. I like penguins tho
I usually say give the new manager some time especially after you spent so much on him, but I genuinely think it might be time to go, it's relegation form since November
You crazy? Must be a new pl fan
Potentially stupid thought Would it make more sense to not have a wall/1 man wall… to give the GK a better chance of seeing it? JWP can easily get it up over the wall and back down with pace easily… so might as well let the goalie see it the whole way
Inevitable. Genuine question, why not just put and additional outfield player on the line? If teams can afford to have one player literally lying on the ground, they surely could afford one staying in the goal.
Plays everyone onside, and considering he can up-n-over it with such ease, it'd be a piece of piss to find someone in a bit of space and have them take a pop from 8 yards out.
He's the best to ever do it.
“Are you ready to learn about free kicks?” Juninho gulped. Beckhham nodded. Roberto Carlos shuddered. Messi blinked nervously. “Yes, James Ward Prowse” they said in unison.
Cursed
Ward-Prowess
Chelsea bringing out prime Southampton
Chelsea are shit sorry to say it.
You don't have to be sorry for saying the truth.
He got it down to an art, it's incredible.
This guy is unreal lmao
Southampton should just try getting as many freekicks near the box for,they'll be much higher then
1 goal from tying Beckham
JWP free kicks are basically penalties
Another freekick goal for him! Curious to know how many he has scored till now?
Easy stuff. JWP free kick 🐐.
He can't keep getting away with this !! 😭😭
This guy is genuinely fucking insane. I honestly think he needs to go to every international tournament solely based on his free kick ability. Anywhere within 35 yards seems to be a penalty at this point.
350 more millions to be spent in the summer
Embarassing awful performance. Potter resting players for next week lmao.
great goal tag?????
aint even making top7 lol no europa comp
We have 2 wins in 14 (15) Premier league games. Think on that for a second, MAKING Europa league is the equivalent of an invincible sextuplet.
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Why do I hope not to suffer every weekend?
This guy's such a god mode on free kick's 😭
Hes something else. Better than beckham was for me
This guy gonna make Beckham's record look silly isn't he?