Such is his prowess from free-kicks, he is now his club’s leading Premier League goalscorer from them - his effort’s on Sunday taking him ahead of a man who knew a thing or two about hitting a set-piece - Matt Le Tissier.
Even more impressively, of every Premier League player to have taken more than 50 direct free-kicks since 2003-04, Ward-Prowse has the best conversion rate, with 12.5%.
If it’s in the right spot I would back him to score…
He fucking belts it… You look at the two free kicks today.
The keeper was beaten by pace…
I watched the first one and when he placed the ball I said to my dad “that’s going in. He’s hit it from there thousands of times.”
JWP has his limitations but he has turned into a cracking player.
He can play almost anywhere, has a great engine, scores goals, rarely injured.
Total pro.
If you look back through this match thread you’ll see I was the first to post his goals. The reason I was so quick to post was I’d already written them out as he stepped up to take them…you just knew he was going to score.
That second one was a thing of beauty…just perfect, pace, swerve dip and it hit the inside of the side netting. Unstoppable.