Orientation is quite easy, actually. Central position, just outside the box -- it hardly gets any simpler than that. Putting the right amount of juice behind your shot to achieve such a perfect rainbox from an overhead kick, now that's much more difficult. Inside the box, you aim at a downward angle, so you don't have to worry about the amount of force you put into it.

And it really is much easier if you put it up yourself instead of trying to convert a cross someone bent into the penalty area. I can't count the number of times I tried a bicycle kick after a cross only to have the ball end up near the bloody corner flag or cross the net behind the goal. Most of the time though, you simply miss the ball and look like a fool.

That's all skill. He's practiced that shot from that position thousands of times, I'll bet.

Skuck

lill

Both!

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Definitely a little of both.

You can probably also count in that the defence and especially the keeper didn't expect at all that he would try something this audacious.

Crowd is quick on their feet. The be payin attention.

See the thing is the more you practice, the luckier you get.

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It's not luck. At least, not in the way you think it is. Keeping a ball up is simple, a bicycle kick is something a professional striker would call simple, the only question is placing it right. He knew where the goal was, he's been kicking balls all his life.

If it was luck, then you may as well call all ranged shots luck. You aim, you guess at the right power, you shoot.

A little from column A. A little from column B.