Indeed, it's the support at the ball of the foot that gave my pair their distinct feel.
Ja added the third in the 53rd minute with a touch of individual brilliance, twisting past two defenders and hitting the ball home on the outside of his foot from an acute angle.
By inches, the ball off the hands of the 6-foot-1 Garland cleared the outstretched hands of Reginald Buckner, the Rebels' muscular 6-9 center.
Fabio Aurelio's cross from the right curled to the far post for Jamie Carragher to head back across goal, where Ngog guided the ball with the outside of his right foot in off the keeper and the far post.
But it was the briefest of honeymoons for Cook, lasting only until the last ball of the eighth over, when he played a half-hearted force off the back foot to a ball well wide of off-stump - and to the delight of the bowler Hilfenhaus, Michael Hussey dived expertly in the gully to take a fine one-handed catch.
Lance Allred remembers pre-season tryouts for the Stampede, when bad shoes literally ripped the skin off the ball of his foot.
Messi stepped up to take the free kick but though the ball beat the wall it flashed a foot wide of the post.
It was chiefly thanks to the brilliance of Iniesta once more as he clipped an outrageous diagonal pass into the path of Alves, who took a superb touch to take it round Pyatov and with the outside of his right foot flick the ball into the net.
Morais worked the ball on to his left foot on the edge of the United box on the hour mark and sent his shot swerving over the bar.
St Johnstone were more enterprising at the start of the second half and Samuel should have scored when he latched on to Cleveland Taylor's cross but the striker elected to stretch out a foot instead of heading the ball and the effort was collected comfortably by keeper Brown.
Derby missed a couple of opportunities to clear and Vassell crashed the ball home from six yards after Neil Danns' powerful strike rebounded off the foot of the post.
They were on the front foot and maybe we played a bit of ball in the first few minutes which allowed them to run at us.
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The South African produced a neat piece of control with his left foot before lashing the ball past a helpless Tomas Lovasik with his right.
Saints went two ahead when sub Maybury's shot from the left was deflected into the path of May and he showed great skill to knock the spinning ball over Cerny with a flick of his right foot.
The Gunners were rocked when Matthieu Flamini hesitated on the edge of the box, the ball found its way to Taylor and his side-foot shot arrowed into the corner via Gallas's ankle.
The one thing Kentucky could do was dump the ball to Anthony Davis, the 6-foot-10 national player of the year.
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Bell made it 4-2 with a great shot from the edge of the box and then Dallas burst through to clip the ball in with his left foot for the home side's fifth.
The Sporting defender quickly worked the ball on to this right foot and unleashed an unstoppable curling shot into the roof of the net.
Plus, rather than kicking the ball with your foot, where you at least have some level of sensitivity, you strike it with the bony part of your heel.
Stefano Okaka cushioned the ball into the path of De Rossi who drilled it in the bottom corner with a smart left-foot finish as Blazej Augustyn and Giuseppe Bellusci were sent off for the visitors.
Moroccan striker Chamakh held his position to coolly side-foot the ball through the legs of Terrell Forbes from eight yards out, right into the corner of the net, for his first goal since the end of November.
Kamara's corner from the right corner found Loovens in the heart of the penalty box and the Dutchman mis-controlled it, but still managed to switch the ball from right foot to left and clinically finish.
Down Under, they'll need to master playing late and off the back foot, and be ready to get their gloves out of the way of the rising ball all skills they can learn from one of their teammates, Rahul Dravid, who is in sublime form at the age of 38.
He jumped in front of the 385-foot marker and caught the ball above the fence.
He checked onto his right foot and curled the ball onto the top of the net.
One of the most important points to remember about this particular shot is getting your front foot as close to the pitch of the ball as possible.
However the clearance ran invitingly to Elliott, who superbly wrapped his foot around the ball and found the top corner of the net beyond the despairing dive of Paddy Kenny.
Instead of driving to the ballpark, they tie a ball and chain to each foot and walk to work, because they're scrappy like that.
Florent Malouda chipped a ball into the run of Anelka and the French striker angled in a left-foot shot which keeper Martin Dubravaka failed to get a hand to despite it being within saveable range.
City centre-back Kolo Toure left Morten Gamst Pedersen's hopeful punt upfield to Hart but the keeper -- having come 30-yards out of his goal -- missed the ball and Kalinic steered in a left-foot shot.
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