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Cristiano Ronaldo taking a free kick. He usually uses the knuckleball technique. These types of shots are usually used most in free kicks, corner kicks and shots on goal. Bending shot / Curl (association football) / Trivela: Sometimes called curve. Any part of the foot can be used to do a bending shot, but using the inside or outside parts ...
An accurate penalty kick taker, [254] he also became a set piece specialist, renowned for his powerful, bending free kicks. [255] When taking free kicks, Ronaldo is known for using the knuckleball technique, which was developed by Juninho Pernambucano. [256]
Most penalty kick goals (excluding shoot-outs): 171 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2004– [40] Most free kick goals: 77 – Juninho, 1993–2013 [41] [note 17] Most direct corner-kick goals: 32 – Şükrü Gülesin, 1940–1955 [44] [45] Most headed goals: 152 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2002– Most right foot goals: 588 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2002–
Ronaldo scored his first goal for Manchester United with a free-kick in a 3–0 win over Portsmouth on 1 November. [22] Three more league goals followed in the second half of the campaign, [23] the last of which came against Aston Villa on the final day of the season, a match in which he also received the first red card of his career. [24]
Despite being without the injured Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney, United took the lead just three minutes into the match, with Cristiano Ronaldo hitting a dipping and swerving free kick past Thomas Sørensen in the middle of the Stoke goal for his 100th goal for Manchester United. United's second goal came in stoppage time at the ...
Brazil's forward #10 Neymar (L) takes a free kick during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group G football match between Brazil and Serbia at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, north of Doha on November 24, 2022.
Cristiano Ronaldo left the field in tears after his Al-Nassr team lost the King’s Cup final to Al-Hilal and ended a second successive season in Saudi Arabia without any major silverware on Friday.
On 3 April 2018, in the Champions League quarter-finals against Juventus, Ronaldo scored twice, including a spectacular overhead kick, and Marcelo added another goal to give Madrid a 3–0 first leg victory. [75] Five days later, a volley goal from Ronaldo put Madrid in the lead against Atlético, but the match eventually ended 1–1. [76]