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Payet’s free-kick prowess
- Updated: September 22, 2016
Dimitri Payet scored yet another free-kick for West Ham on Wednesday night, but how does his set-piece rate compare to others?
Payet’s 96th-minute strike saved West Ham from embarrassment in the EFL Cup third round against Accrington Stanley, one of five free-kicks the Frenchman has netted since arriving in England last summer.
“Not currently the world’s biggest fans of Dimitri Payet,” Stanley now state in their Twitter bio, but many are. The secret to his success? Not practising.
He told West Ham TV back in April: “Since [January] I have not been practising as I have been happy with the way I am hitting the ball.
“So I am carrying on with that technique and now I just take a few before each game when I am warming up.”
Payet’s approach seems to be working, and his set-piece technique is unique. Unlike Cristiano Ronaldo’s straight-on stance, the 29-year-old lines up at a …
