Content Editor at Free Super Tips, Alex was born in the shadow of Old Trafford and is an avid Man Utd fan. After graduating from university he combined his love of football, writing and betting to join FST and now closely follows goings-on in all of the top European leagues.
There’s no time to be a football fan quite like pre-season. The potential and the unbroken promises – a long season of potential glory stretching ahead of you – present themselves before you’re reminded of how football always breaks your heart.
This pre-season there have been some stunning strikes already. Here are our favourites:
Nacer Chadli
The Spurs beaut smashed a pearler past AC Milan in Spurs’ final pre-season friendly. Lovely stuff.
Christian Benteke
The new Liverpool signing showed his tekkers with this ridiculous swivel and volley against Swindon Town. Ooosh!
Jordon Ibe
With Raheem Sterling now plying his trade in Manchester, Brendan Rogers will be hoping that Jordon Ibe steps up to fill the void. This mazy run and strike suggests he might well do that.
Harry Kane
The Spurs star has started pre-season as he ended 2014/15, with this positively Bale-esque run and smash.
Blimey.. Just seen Harry Kane’s goal goal last night https://t.co/7nDtrez4hq
— ADAM BROOKS (@EssexPR) July 30, 2015
Mats Hummels
Here’s the Dortmund centre back proving he’s pretty decent at the other end of the pitch.
Fan footage of Mats Hummels’ goal last night. What a strike. pic.twitter.com/KgWlp6ISiz — Football Vines (@FootballVines) July 22, 2015
Marco Reus
Hummels’ teammate Reus provided a touch of class to score his team’s second in their friendly against Juventus. MEGS!
.@BVB‘s Marco Reus nutmegs Leonardo Bonucci and applies the finish to score a stunning individual goal against Juve. https://t.co/x8LA1YsAgo — BT Sport Football (@btsportfootball) July 25, 2015
Phillip Mexes
A volley from a corner, you say? An acrobatic volley from a corner from outside the box, you say? This from Mexes is Zlatanesque.
Insane goal by Mexes https://t.co/qwTzLkglPL — Soccer Vines (@ItsSoccerVines) July 26, 2015
Marcel Ndjeng
You can’t argue with a volley from the halfway line, can you? Thwack.
Miralem Pjanic
We all know that Roma’s Pjanic is capable of superthwackers from miles out, so I’m not sure what Man City’s defenders were thinking standing off him so much…
#VIDEO The man with a knack for scoring Golazos…gets another, Pjanic with a stunner! pic.twitter.com/GfAEnboJHe — FootballFacts101 (@FootballFact101) July 21, 2015
James Rodriguez
The benefits of Ronaldo not being on the pitch means that the likes of James Rodriguez can step up to have a crack at a free kick every now and then. This one went quite well.
If you missed it yesterday, here’s James Rodriguez’s quality free kick for Real against Inter! https://t.co/M4VLalROC1 — Football Super Tips (@FootySuperTips) July 28, 2015
