Let’s start with a quick quiz question. Aside from Trent Alexander-Arnold, who is the Liverpool player to most recently score from a direct free kick in the Premier League? I’ll give you a clue. It ...

He can still do it from a dead ball. Yesterday, Lionel Messi scored his 67th career direct free-kick goal. With his goal in Inter Miami's 3-3 draw against Philadelphia Union, La Pulga surpassed two ...

Marcus Rashford scored Barcelona’s first direct free-kick goal in years ending a long drought against Copenhagen in Champions League. Barcelona finally ended one of their most surprising scoring ...

At age 37. Lionel Messi is still making history with his trademark free kicks in Major League Soccer. He scored a close-range curler for Inter Miami CF on Saturday that helped rescue a 3-3 draw ...

Instead of going over the top of the midfielder and risking a foul on the edge of his own box, Stach gets tight to Barkley, uses his strength to nudge the former Everton man forward a yard and then ...

Ronaldo has countless goalscoring records, but there’s one stat he’d probably rather forget. In major International tournaments he has scored just one goal from 61 attempts from direct free kicks. He ...

Match ends, Juventus 0, Como 2. 95' Second Half ends, Juventus 0, Como 2. 94' Foul by Diego Carlos (Como). 94' Weston ...

Top players from Liverpool, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Arsenal feature in our ranking of the best free-kick takers across world football. As tactical margins shrink, dead-ball specialists are ...