No rule without exception. Take Tzavellas. Georgios Tzavellas, then under contract with Eintracht Frankfurt, scored the 1-2 goal against Schalke 04 from 73 meters. Quite a distance. Record-breaking. Alex Alves had scored against Köln a few years back, scoring right after kick-off from the centre-circle. Long-distance goals are possible, but in contrast to basketball not rewarded by additional points. One shot, two goals? No, Sir.
So teams circulate the ball, until they are within reasonable scoring distance. That's why stats about the last third of the field are so interesting. In the eleven games played in the 2012/2013 season, the team had 2051 possessions within the last third – the red zone, the money zone, if you want to call it that. Single leader: Mesut Özil with 198.
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No rule without exception. Take Tzavellas. Georgios Tzavellas, then under contract with Eintracht Frankfurt, scored the 1-2 goal against Schalke 04 from 73 meters. Quite a distance. Record-breaking. Alex Alves had scored against Köln a few years back, scoring right after kick-off from the centre-circle. Long-distance goals are possible, but in contrast to basketball not rewarded by additional points. One shot, two goals? No, Sir.
So teams circulate the ball, until they are within reasonable scoring distance. That's why stats about the last third of the field are so interesting. In the eleven games played in the 2012/2013 season, the team had 2051 possessions within the last third – the red zone, the money zone, if you want to call it that. Single leader: Mesut Özil with 198.
