Willian

[Stats 6,980]

3 hours ago, the wes said:

 

LOL. PISS OFF.

[Essien19 1,415]

One of the first names to make it on the team sheet against PSG.
Expecting great things from him, unbelievable player, thank you Jose.

[xPetrCechx 13,546]

[Topico 165]

If true he would miss few games at start of the season

Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics 3–20 August

Premier League 16/17 start 13 August 2016

[Yeboii 1,844]

2 hours ago, Topico said:

If true he would miss few games at start of the season

Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics 3–20 August

Premier League 16/17 start 13 August 2016

If there is one player we have that could handle that, it would be Willian.

[robsblubot 3,205]

There is no danger of Willian joining Chinese clubs... Psg is another story of course.

[LAM09 6,535]

Seems to have gone downhill since Mou left. However, he's still doing more than most

[AWorriedChelseaFan 151]

Is it just me or has Willian's set pieces lately has been extremely piss poor ?

 

I mean, his corner deliveries cannot even beat the first man off the ball anymore

 

I say give Fabregas both freekicks and corners kicks from now on. Way better final product IMO.

[LAM09 6,535]

Is it just me or has Willian's set pieces lately has been extremely piss poor ? [emoji185]

 

I mean, his corner deliveries cannot even beat the first man off the ball anymore

 

I say give Fabregas both freekicks and corners kicks from now on. Way better final product IMO.

Been poor since New Year. Cesc should be taking most (if not all) from now on.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,733]

First minute assist for Brazil just now.

[Jase 43,479]

On 3/19/2016 at 0:01 AM, AWorriedChelseaFan said:

I mean, his corner deliveries cannot even beat the first man off the ball anymore

His corner deliveries have, more often than not (like 90% of the time), failed to beat the first man in the box. So, I'm not sure what is so surprising there.

[AWorriedChelseaFan 151]

4 hours ago, Jason said:

His corner deliveries have, more often than not (like 90% of the time), failed to beat the first man in the box. So, I'm not sure what is so surprising there.

It's pretty weird to see a player that is regarded as one of the best deadball specialist in Europe to not be able to take corners brilliantly, I'm not dissing Willian OFC. I loved him since back when he joined us in 2013, props to him for stepping up his game for this season.

[Jase 43,479]

58 minutes ago, AWorriedChelseaFan said:

It's pretty weird to see a player that is regarded as one of the best deadball specialist in Europe to not be able to take corners brilliantly, I'm not dissing Willian OFC. I loved him since back when he joined us in 2013, props to him for stepping up his game for this season.

One of the best deadball specialist in Europe?

3-4 months of scoring from free kicks doesn't make one a specialist.

[Kieran. 6,317]

7 minutes ago, Jason said:

One of the best deadball specialist in Europe?

3-4 months of scoring from free kicks doesn't make one a specialist.

Err he has one of the best records in Europe this season so yeah, he is a specialist.

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Kieran. said:

Err he has one of the best records in Europe this season so yeah, he is a specialist.

But stats don't always tell the whole story, do they?

[AWorriedChelseaFan 151]

54 minutes ago, Jason said:

One of the best deadball specialist in Europe?

3-4 months of scoring from free kicks doesn't make one a specialist.

Are you implying that the free kicks that Willian scored in the last few months of last year as ''flukes'' then ? From what I have seen, I don't think any of them were ''lucky goals'' or ''goalkeeping errors''.

[Jase 43,479]

Just now, AWorriedChelseaFan said:

Are you implying that the free kicks that Willian scored in the last few months of last year as ''flukes'' then ? From what I have seen, I don't think any of them were ''lucky goals'' or ''goalkeeping errors''.

I'm not implying those free kicks were flukes. They were great but it doesn't change the fact that he only managed to do that for 3-4 months and doing it for only such a short period of time doesn't make one a specialist.

[DYC. 7,542]

He scored 5-6 FKs in quick succession. A dry spell was always going to happen. Question is if he can get back to converting free-kicks on the regular (though it will never be like before). Agree with Jason here, too early to call him a specialist. Drogba had that one season, converting FKs and regularly threatening. 09/10. But never again.