He's around 3rd or 4th into the pile from what I seen in the camera angle that shows the whole pitch.
EDIT: 5th.
He's around 3rd or 4th into the pile from what I seen in the camera angle that shows the whole pitch.
EDIT: 5th.
Sounds like it was a lucky goal then?
If you put other class players into the correct position for both those goals and took 1000 samples, the Zidane goal would be being scored way more often than the Bale goal. His version of it looks nice because he found the sweet spot on a ball that had been launched 12 yards into the air, but scoring from that ball in itself isn't impossibly difficult
Probably because there are more crosses in football than balls falling from the sky
EDIT: Lol Spoons we used the same wording
Practically every overhead is lauded as the greatest goal ever.
Can we all just accept that they look impressive, but they're also a huge roll of the dice? They're practically a different category of endeavour to other goals.
EDIT: And Rivaldo's overhead is still the best for mine. The one where he juggles the cross a couple of times, rather than the one where he controls it on his chest. Although it's a measure of the man that you still have to specify which all-time great overhead goal you mean.
Pretty much every single high-level amateur and professional footballer will tell you that Zidane's volley was more difficult.
https://youtu.be/rFfomw-Z4uE
Just watch how much Zidane has to contort his body to strike that ball properly during the sequence at 0:57. It's not your typical volleyed goal like van Persie's Charlton or Rooney's Newcastle because he's not running into the flight of the ball nor is dropping right in front of him.
Bale's goal requires extreme athleticism--he had no right to connect with that ball--but its technical execution is simpler due to it being a straightforward cross.
Last edited by Panda Bear; 30-05-2018 at 12:58 AM.
Trevor Sinclair should be in this poll.
I'm a twit
Someone find me another goal remotely like the Zidane one.
Find me an instance where a ball goes 15 yards into the sky and has time to drop back down before a defender challenges for it at the edge of the box first. I reckon it's a nearly impossible exercise.
Ronaldinho vs Chelsea will always be the best goal ever.
Standing side volleys on a ball coming at you from a 45 degree angle is a million times more difficult to handle than a horizontal cross.
Can't argue against that evidence.
Absolutely destroyed him there Idiotmouse.
Closest I can think of
https://youtu.be/Kg9VEEVpe3s
DS and his merc'd mate brings back terrible memories.
The only goal I can think of coming down even close to as vertical for the 'pass' is that stupid Balotelli one and that barely counts.
I was trying to think of vertical goals and was wondering if any of Van Persies volleys would have counted, the answers no but I got to see this again.
The goal and the celebration are both top tier stuff. What a cunt.
TBH this ones even better.
What a talented bastard I hate him. You know you're going to see some tasty stuff when you search for a players volleys and he's rolling 5 deep in the auto-complete.