I agree the shot by Eze was never going to score, but no one else got on the end of Dubravka's many punches until Eze came on. Trippier must take hundreds of corners at Dubravka in training at Newcastle, don't you think we ought to have known what Dubravka does when challenged on a high cross .......?
If Toney to Kane wasn't a fluke and Kane's header wasn't a fluke, and Eze being in the right place wasn't a fluke, and trying to do the right thing wasn't flukey either .... the one flukey element in the goal was Eze not connecting properly. If we assess every goal resulting from something unintended as a fluke ...... then a hell of a lot of goals are going to be pure flukes. Back in the day when the long-ball game started being played, scoring flukes and lumping balls "into-the-mix" were very much part of what passed for strategy. Isn't the pressing game about when you don't win actually back the ball close to goal, creating fluke errors from panic- stricken or sleeping defenders.
There's a lot of flukes out there! How many shots beat the keeper ONLY because the ball is deflected off a defender. It's a fluke, but someone deliberately created that situation too. How many goals come from perfect, pure passing moves out from the back? How many times does passing out from the back result in a fluke goal for the opposition? So far in this competition France scored two own goals and a penalty.
Perhaps in the same way we signify own goals with (og), we should record flukes with an (f)?
If Toney to Kane wasn't a fluke and Kane's header wasn't a fluke, and Eze being in the right place wasn't a fluke, and trying to do the right thing wasn't flukey either .... the one flukey element in the goal was Eze not connecting properly. If we assess every goal resulting from something unintended as a fluke ...... then a hell of a lot of goals are going to be pure flukes. Back in the day when the long-ball game started being played, scoring flukes and lumping balls "into-the-mix" were very much part of what passed for strategy. Isn't the pressing game about when you don't win actually back the ball close to goal, creating fluke errors from panic- stricken or sleeping defenders.
There's a lot of flukes out there! How many shots beat the keeper ONLY because the ball is deflected off a defender. It's a fluke, but someone deliberately created that situation too. How many goals come from perfect, pure passing moves out from the back? How many times does passing out from the back result in a fluke goal for the opposition? So far in this competition France scored two own goals and a penalty.
Perhaps in the same way we signify own goals with (og), we should record flukes with an (f)?