How Leeds planned Ilia Gruev's quick free-kick vs Norwich

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00:00 a great, great piece of, I don't know,

00:02 would you call it ingenuity, trickery,

00:05 straight off the training grounds?

00:08 You know, what sort of free kick are you describing that as?

00:11 - Well, this is why I asked Daniel Farke, you know,

00:13 was this just a bit of improvisation in the moment

00:15 from Gruev or was it something you worked on?

00:18 And Farke said that they spotted it.

00:21 Their analysts and Edmund Reamer were responsible

00:27 for spotting it and exploiting it.

00:30 They'd noticed that Angus Gunn,

00:32 little bit trigger happy perhaps with his positioning

00:35 at free kicks on that side.

00:37 And you could see in the replay that Gruev and Somerville

00:42 were like having a little conversation.

00:45 Is it on?

00:47 Shall I?

00:48 And Gruev turned to the bench actually,

00:50 I don't know if you saw,

00:51 and he made this kind of motion to ask,

00:53 am I whipping this one in?

00:54 Am I curling it across?

00:55 Or was it, perhaps he was saying actually,

00:58 am I going for goal here?

00:59 Because he was getting all excited about Angus Gunn

01:02 being that far to the other side of the goal.

01:04 But you still have to get it right.

01:07 The strike still has to be right.

01:08 And it has to not take a deflection on the way through

01:11 and it has to not get blocked.

01:13 It was a really good finish, really precise.

01:17 And Gunn wasn't gonna get back to it.

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