Szoboszlai’s late free-kick against Arsenal showed perfect whip and dip, yet its placement was still within what could be expected from his delivery. His free-kick against Manchester City was far harder to foresee, with a wall containing only two men and the shot taken from a long distance. The ball struck with the laces, jiggling, dipping, and swerving at improbable angles, forcing Gianluigi Donnarumma to anticipate the wrong type of delivery. Once the ball’s true path became clear, it was too late for any meaningful save, and it curled in off the post high up. Harrison Reed’s free-kick for Fulham against Liverpool came after a late sequence, with a first touch that set up a right-footed inside-out finish that produced a top-corner strike.
"With Fulham trailing Liverpool following Cody Gakpo's 94th-minute apparent clincher, they won a throw deep inside the visitors' half, the ball eventually fed back to Reed, 25 yards out, left of centre. Having only just come on, his first touch of the match was to control, taking the ball inside and into his stride as his teammates jostled about the box for the cross they were hoping to attack. Instead, he shaped to shoot presumably to their consternation, as they multiplied distance from net, by the difficulty of the right-footed, inside-out finish he tried, by the finishing prowess that had brought him six goals in 191 league appearances. And then his entire corporeality catapulted into a glorious vaporiser that burned into the top corner of the top corner, R"
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