Hear me out on this argument.
I feel there are distinctive differences in quality between a freekick/penalty and a goal scored in open play. I will always back a goal in open play as a favorite as opposed to a free kick (Roberto Carlos excepted)
With a free kick, you have time to think. Time to remember your technique from the training pitch. The very fact you have practiced this very same free kick in training time and time and time again, with the same wall set up. All you have to do is step up and "Repeat it". I'm not at all questioning the skill to be able to do it, just the fact you are in so much more control. Its called "Conscious compitance" " Your thinking about the skill you know you have"
Open play goals are so much more about "natural ability" You cannot recreate the defenders running the same way, the way a ball may bounce and it relies on your amazing natural skills you have, just pulling off remarkable things. I would put this down in the catogory of "Unconscious Compitance" "Not having to think about what you are doing" (like driving).
I would go for the goals against Norwich for me too. Just sublime goals
I will miss the little stroppy git, but he was "Our little stroppy git"
On the field, he epitomised everything we wanted to see a player in our Blue to be. A few others can take a leaf out of his book in that respect
Good luck Carlos