Billy's Finishing

[Sabella's Socks]

Seems to me Billy sometimes doesn't go for a conventional clean strike of the ball.

One example from a while ago is the winner in the disrupted away game at Coventry. After the interruption he had a chance about 6 yards out, but instead of hitting through the ball he hit it into the ground (about 1:45 in the video).

Superficially this looks like a routine goal: he's a few yards out with only the keeper to beat, but the keeper is only a couple of yards away and has made himself a really big, if he just hits it the keeper probably saves it, instead, in a split second and with his wrong foot, he finds an path to goal. I think it's a great finish.

It's happened a few times since, for instance more recently he did it with the header he scored against Ipswich (and the header he missed against L***s).

I wonder if sometimes there's more to finishing than twatting the ball as hard as you can

 

[DronnieBlade]

All about hitting the target.

MUCH harder to miss when you strike / head the ball downwards.

A high percentage of “sitters” are missed when players lean backwards and thus strike the ball on an upward trajectory and ending up “scooping” the ball over the bar.

Bearing in mind Sharp has few peers when it comes to scoring goals in the modern era, I reckon he is more than aware of all this !!

UTB

 

[stringjunior]

Give over. His legs have gone and he's over the hill.

 

[COME BACK CHED]

After over 200 goals i would leave it to him , no player is perfect , good points though .

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Billy must be getting very close to Ricky Lambert's (?) top goal-scoring record, right? Top goal-scorer in English league football?

 

[Harry's Game]

Someone told me at the start of the season he wouldn’t score 10 more goals in a Blades shirt....

 

[mattbianco1]

It's happened a few times since, for instance more recently he did it with the header he scored against Ipswich (and the header he missed against L***s).

You're taught from a young age to always head it down.

Did at Blackburn too

 

[Muttley]

For someone about to break a post 2000 goals record, I'll say there's not much wrong with his finishing

 

[blade.i.am]

Is he? When?

 

[Broomhall Blade]

I was always taught to concentrate on hitting the target more than power.
If you hit the target it always has a chance of going in, if you don't it doesn't, even if you have hit the ball at 100 mph.

Thats what annoys me about our shooting from outside the area( which i think is woeful at times) they nearly always seem to be going for power rather than accuracy. Thus why the majority of our shots from outside the area end up high or wide.

 

[Sabella's Socks]

You're taught from a young age to always head it down.

Of course, like the Derby goal (and what a finish that was), but it seems to me what's much less common is applying that to diving headers six yards out.

Like the movement thread elsewhere, it seems to me there's much more to what Billy does than there appears at first sight.

 

[Chali 2na]

I doubt any of us are qualified to advise Billy on his finishing.

His goal per game ratio has been phenomenal this season - long may it continue.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Billy’s technique is a fascinating topic. He’s such a marvelous goal scorer.
His goal against Derby was a typical example of his unique style. No way should he have scored from that position but the awkward bounce he produced completely fooled Carson.
Against these quick and highly athletic goalkeepers (not saying Carson is one of them) it’s an extra struggle for them to predict a ball hit hard into the turf. It’s often the only way to put a ball past them.

It must be an incredibly difficult technique to perfect hence sometimes it goes awry such as the chance he had versus Leeds.

Saying all that, one of my favourite Billy goals was when he stretched and headed it over the keeper at Bradford. Just awesome.

 

[Chali 2na]

Woops

 

[sheffielder]

He won't score 10 more goals for us ever, apparently.

 

[Harrisblade]

Someone told me at the start of the season he wouldn’t score 10 more goals in a Blades shirt....

Presumably one of our ever-pessimistic legion of Blades fans?

 

[coaxingstar71]

I thought the first one today was superb. He dummies as though he's going to hit it but then waits a split second for it to come across his body before rifling it in with his left - superb composure.

 

[Snowman]

Excellent finishing today. Just wish he had the vision to stop fucking about trying to dribble out from three men surrounding him rather than the simple out ball backwards or sideways. But as I type this I appreciate that if he did that he would be earning £150k a week with Man City. Just glad to see the best of him, because I remember all the previous bad times where he was played out of position. Goooooo on Billy lad!

 

[Sabella's Socks]

I thought the first one today was superb. He dummies as though he's going to hit it but then waits a split second for it to come across his body before rifling it in with his left - superb composure.

There really is more to it than twatting it as hard as you can - even from a couple of yards out.

 

[Ricky]

I thought the first one today was superb. He dummies as though he's going to hit it but then waits a split second for it to come across his body before rifling it in with his left - superb composure.

Yep, was going to post the same.

Bit of contact, off balance, waits, concentrates, hits the target. Brilliant composure.

That goal demonstrates how he's been able to rack up the amount he has in his career.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Paul Scholes used to have a great knack for hitting shots that would bounce just before the target, used to give goalkeepers nightmares.

 

[zablade]

I wonder if say around 2009 when he was scoring for fun for Donny at this level if someone in the Premier League had taken a gamble on him then he might have been able to do it at the top level.

Probably fortunate for us they didn’t as we would have been relegated to a league two without his goals in 2016.

 

[wavy-blade]

 

[ForgeBlade]

He is a natural-born goalscorer. It's that simple. Some players can just do it, consistently, over their entire career. Sharp is one such player. Thank fuck he's a Blade, or we'd be nowhere close to having him play for us!

 

[nopigfansintown]

Fact: Billy's feet are eight and a halves.I have his signed boots from the Madkins season. Big belly, small feet, big heart.

 

[S64 Blade]

Best goal scorer of this millennium, in England. Should be more if not for the incompetence of Robson and Blackwell.

 

[diplomat]

I wonder if this last couple of years have been the best team, in his opinion, he’s played in. Regardless of being a blade. It’s very much set up for him. (Unlike chasing balls to the corner flag under Blackwell)

 

[Pierre's PC]

He like the finish from the ball dropping over his shoulder as per his second. I seem to remember a few like that from him

 

[Topplayersleave]

Maybe McGoldrick is learning from him, I'm sure if he'd headed it he'd have missed so did the awkward thing and stuck his chest on it

 

[Blade&Snuff]

Watching Billy as the ball was crossed for his second, he was watching the defenders and the keeper and keeping an eye on the ball, what a fucking talent we have got, put it away like it was a training session.
Love that guy.
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