Declan Rice’s free kick against Real Madrid in the first stage of Arsenal’s Champions League quarterfinals created history more than one.
Mikel Arteta said that the first of Rice’s curling efforts ended four years of waiting for a direct free kick, the last scored Martin Odegaard against Burnley in September 2021.
Although it did not completely match the beauty of rice, Arsenal technically scored from a direct free kick at the beginning of this season when Buyo Saka’s Beat Gianluigi Donnarumba In the group phase, when Gunners overcame Paris Saint-Germain 2-0, but there is no doubt that it was a intended cross.
Maybe Arsenal and Mikel Artta did not have to wait four years, but Rice had to wait for it because she did it because she did 338 Senior performances without scoring from free kick. But just like London buses you have been waiting for eight years and two come at once 12 minutes separating Rice’s stunning.
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While very little predicted that Rice would be the score after the first, let alone the second, it wasn’t without trying it.
Rice had 12 attempts from free kicks without scoring Before Tuesday evening, with nine of those coming in the Premier League. On the domestic market Andreas Pereira It leads to the upper flight for the number of direct free kicks without scoring (28).
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If you want to bring things back to the perspective, scoring free kicks is not easy – ask Kylian Mbappe, who was forced to watch Rice’s dead master class in Emirates. MBAPPE still has to score from the same scenario despite 17 attempts to do.
France International, however, made a score as a result of a free kick when he played with Franci with Franci with Franci with Franci last month.
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Mikel Arteta says double free kicks from Declan Rice were “magic moments” that summarized the victory 3-0 over Real Madrid in the Champions League
As regards Two direct free kicks scored in one gameRice is in a weighted society with similar Cristiano Ronaldo, Compete and Neymar Among those who did the same in the European elite competition.
But rice stands alone as Only player to achieve the outcome in the knockout stages. Rice also became the only player of Arsenal in history that scored from a direct free kick for group stages.
