“Talk to Newcastle’s greatest ever goalscorer Alan Shearer about the scoring of goals and he will bring up the importance of the ‘second six-yard box’ — meaning the space between the actual one and the penalty spot. For him, it’s where strikers should get their chances. No 9s, however, have idiosyncrasies. Current Newcastle centre-forward Alexander Isak’s winner away to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday was his latest in a growing collection of tap-ins from within the actual six-yard box. It made the Sweden international the third Newcastle player to score in seven consecutive Premier League games, after Shearer in 1996-97 and Joe Willock in 2020-21. …”
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