[The once and future king]

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I was saying that Taylor has no controll over the spin that is allready on the ball. With dead balls and when the ball is under controll players of course put different spin on the ball, most commonly back spin whilst passing.

However in this case the ball is in motion when Taylor reaches it, If the ball is spinning in a certain way the shot becomes immposible. Intentionaly correcting or adding any spin when vollying from 42m out is practicaly immposible.

[/ QUOTE ] Eh I agree, but this basically means his goal was dumb luck.

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If a players could score goals like this 1 in 8 times even under no pressure, then quite simply there would be ALOT more goals like this.

[/ QUOTE ] Yeah, especially if the goalie is out as far as Howard was. Also, how many players even attempt to shoot from there? If he hadn't hit this perfectly(luckily) people would say, wtf is he doing.

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Intresting question. What is harder, a goal that can be scored via an application of great skill, or one that can only be scored via dumb luck?

SC, why do you think players dont take shots or attempt volleys from 42m out? Because they know they stand alot worse than a 1 in 8 chance of scoring.

We all know goals are hard to come by in football. If players knew thay had an 1 in 8 chance or even 1 in 10 chance from 42m volleys they would attempt them all the time.