Juninho, Beckham, Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos – football greats from times past, particularly renowned for their scoring threat from a direct free-kick. Omar Marmoush has a way to go yet to join their elite company, but Eintracht Frankfurt’s Egyptian sharpshooter already has the edge on them in one impressive sub-category. Netting three free-kick goals in three successive competitive matches is a feat only previously achieved in top-level football by Alessandro Del Piero and Lionel Messi, two further legends of the game. We turn the analytical spotlight on Marmoush’s deadly dead-ball methodology.