Most Dramatic Finish To A Game You Have Seen

Paully D

There's loads, but here's 3 of my choices:

1999 Champions League final:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1aoob_rM5E

Looking back on that I had actually forgot that Munich hit the woodwork twice. Fantastic finish to the game, what a comeback!

Everton 2-3 Aston Villa (2008):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_CNDBq2rk

Everton equalise in the 92nd minute and Goodison Park went wild. A minute later and Ashley Young destroys Lescott to score the winner. The stadium is then completely silent apart from the away fans. It doesn't quite show it in the video but the end of the game O'Neill runs up to Young and embraces him in the middle of the field saying ''world class, world class'' or something like that. Great scenes!

And a bit of bias to end the OP:

Ji scores - Sunderland 1 V 0 Manchester City (2012):

Will always remember this for Martin Tyler's roar of ''JIIIIIIIIIIII, he's round the keeper, and he's done it'' :pac: It was like time stopped when he took it around Hart and I was waiting for him to trip or hit the side netting. When the ball hit the net the whole stadium erupted and Ji had to fend off a fan who was kissing him. Quality stuff!

The_Kew_Tour

United 99 is obvious one for me.

These 2 stand out for me cause I was at both of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYiO7PoCZyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpa0KuaG8Rs

Ireland V Germany on International front.

Jelle1880

Has to be my local team, Royal Antwerp FC

Vitosha Sofia (The current Levski Sofia), 1989.
First game in Sofia ended in 0-0, in the return game Sofia go 1-0 up, and we equalize in the 83rd minute:

The rest is history

0-1 (06') Slavtchev
1-1 (83') Ralf Geilenkirchen
1-2 (85') Donkov
1-3 (87') Mihtarsky
2-3 (90') Nico Claesen
3-3 (92') Nico Claesen
4-3 (94') Raphaël Quaranta

Nalz

This was the only game I was at that season, and what a finish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E6-oaC7bf4

Eirebear

Rangers 1-0 Hibs.
May 2005
Nacho Novo scored in the 59th minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p1zgov_-a8

eugeneious

Apart from 99 CL final this jumps out at me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZKZik_bsg0

Ironman76

Ill never forget that final. I remember BM hitting the bar alright and I turned away almost in pain.

Also have to give Robbie Keanes goal against Germany in WC 2002. I didnt think we would score, Kahn was simply unstoppable (he almost saved Keanes shot sure).

Newcastle coming back from 4 down against Arsenal last season was incredible. Moreso because thousands walked out of St James by half time.

KaiserGunner

For me it has to be Liverpool V Arsenal in May 1989.Needed to beat Liverpool by two goals and Michael Thomas scored the second goal in injury time."its up for grabs now!" Possibly the greatest and most dramatic ending to a title race ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jiBIdtUKhs

Ironman76

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

United 99 is obvious one for me.

These 2 stand out for me cause I was at both of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYiO7PoCZyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpa0KuaG8Rs

Ireland V Germany on International front.

Ah the Macheda goal . . how could I forget

dor83

Inter 3-2 Samp 04/05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXdMULljtak

With 3 mins, plus stoppages, left Inter were 0-2 down and it looked like game over, but Martins, Vieri and Recoba all score in 6mins. I still remember watching it, the best end to a game I have seen.

eugeneious

Love this one as well... especially the commentary! :pac:

ShamoBuc

KaiserGunner wrote: »

For me it has to be Liverpool V Arsenal in May 1989.Needed to beat Liverpool by two goals and Michael Thomas scored the second goal in injury time."its up for grabs now!" Possibly the greatest and most dramatic ending to a title race ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jiBIdtUKhs

Loadashíte:(

tim_holsters

Good thread, but I like ARG v HOL since I won a few bob on it oh I screamed when Bergkamp got that sublime goal.

James__10

15th November 2008

applehunter

Another Shels special

94th minute winner from Graham Cummins of Cork City to win the 1st division 29/10/2011

see 3.12 for goal

ShamoBuc

applehunter wrote: »

Another Shels special

94th minute winner from Graham Cummins of Cork City to win the 1st division 29/10/2011

see 3.12 for goal

I will never, ever, get tired of watching that:D

Colilfc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IQMJSPmj3o

fryup

it has to be the 1984 european championship semi-final France v Portugal

Michel Platini scores with the very last kick of the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb2Bi1c_3L4

Will I Amnt

Has to be the 99 champions league final.
Surrounded by Liverpool fans who were taking great satisfaction from my despair.
I'll never forget that mix of the "f**k you" feeling that went with the sheer delight.
Amazing day and night for me.

Dortmund v Stuttgart tonight wasn't half bad for a dramatic finish.

steelcityblues

Spain vs Yugoslavia - Euro 2000.

Maybe the greatest European Championship match of all time, too.

"ALFONSOOOOOO!"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7zcQ5rt1Y0

kitakyushu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-fCY4jUN_s

Not so much a late finish (goals came in the mid 80s iirc) but more the manner of it. It really was a comeback out of nowhere, Arsenal had totally dominated.

Rekop dog

For sheer drama in the last minute of a game I think the league game between Napoli and Lecce last season wins for me. Napoli clear a Lecce shot off their goal line and moments later break forward, Cavani goes on a mazy run and unleashes a thunderbolt from outside the box to win the game and keep Napoli in the title race. Epic commentary as well.

Oranage2

Maybe not the most dramatic but certainly a time when football had passion. I remember how slimey United are, though it didnt stop Arsenal going that whole season unbeaten.

grenache

Garry Parker's strike was the best counter-attack goal i've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3il3DNAs5c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4K1530txPM

Jimmy Iovine

sugarman wrote: »

THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFQOoSUbnBs

More of this in June please, pref against spain:D

Mick's reactions in that are classic.

My dad was teaching me in 6th class then and we brought in the tele from home for it. We went to the shop at little break and stood for the national anthem in the queue and sprinted back for the start of the match. Unbelievable ending to it.

If they manage to do anything like that against Spain half the country will have heart attacks I'd say. It'd be worth it though.

grenache

Rekop dog wrote: »

For sheer drama in the last minute of a game I think the league game between Napoli and Lecce last season wins for me. Napoli clear a Lecce shot off their goal line and moments later break forward, Cavani goes on a mazy run and unleashes a thunderbolt from outside the box to win the game and keep Napoli in the title race. Epic commentary as well.

thanks for reminding me, don't know how i could forget it!

Xavi6

Last season's A-League Grand Final. What. A. Finish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ68nMu23H4

But there can of course only be one winner...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tge11NHJ0U

amacachi

KaiserGunner wrote: »

For me it has to be Liverpool V Arsenal in May 1989.Needed to beat Liverpool by two goals and Michael Thomas scored the second goal in injury time."its up for grabs now!" Possibly the greatest and most dramatic ending to a title race ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jiBIdtUKhs

My dad left my 9 month old self in the house alone when that goal went in to cash in a bet. :pac: He says the same as me, no matter how many times I see it it looks like he's not going to get the shot away in time.

tim_holsters

Rekop dog that is tremendous, especially at this late/early hour. I thank you.

ASOT

How has this not been posted ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3zSAeAziEY

EdenHazard

czech republic turkey euro 2008?

corcaigh07

how has uruguay v ghana not been posted up yet? have no feelings towards either country but that was some finish to a game and it was a dull enough game until suarez handled it off the line...an entire continent denied, awesome!

blindpilot

I was there, I had given up after half an hour of this game but the rest of the game was just amazing. To come back from 3-0 down on aggregate and win 4-3 was just unbelievable. The commentary on this video does it justice too, "struck a stake to the heart of Draculas boys". Classic, the best memories I've had as a Boro fan, until Southgate decided he could be a manager.:mad:

~Rebel~

One of the stand out ones for me which hasn't been mentioned yet is the 3rd of Rivaldo's hatrick against Valencia in the last game of the 00/01 season. Barca had to win for CL football. Hugely important goal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is6ZLTe2CLw

Nalz

Oranage2 wrote: »

I remember how slimey United are.

I'm gonna bite and ask the burning question...

what the fúck are you on about?

ShamoBuc

All the gel they used to use of course:D

Oat23

The last day of the season - 2000/2001 Bundesliga

Before the last round of games.

Bayern - 62 pts
Schalke - 59 pts

In Gelsenkirchen, Schalke are beating Unterhaching 5-3 in the 89th minute. Over in Hamburg, HSV and Bayern are drawing 0-0 before Sergej Barbarez gives HSV a 1-0 lead in the 90th minute. The commentator proclaims Schalke as the Deutscher Meister and the Schalke fans are going nuts after hearing the news of the HSV goal. They now lead on goal difference. In the 93rd minute, Bayern are awarded an indirect freeckick inside the box after a backpass was picked up by the keeper. Patrik Andersson stepped up and powered it home to restore Bayern's 1 point lead at the top of the table.

This is a 10 minute clip from the Konferenz on Premiere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq-Uqz_vT5o

Hammer Archer

West Ham at home to Spurs in March 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vxUTsvLKUk

This was the game that Tevez first scored in and promptly leapt into the crowd. We were 2-0 up at half time. Within 20 minutes of the second half it was back to 2-2. Bobby Zamora then popped up late on to put us 3-2 up. Happy days. But no. Berbatov scored from a free kick in the final minute of normal time to make it 3-3. Then as we pushed on in injury time for the winner, Spurs broke away and Stalteri finished to win it 4-3. Punched the wall and nearly broke my hand when the winner went in. Though, in hindsight that game probably gave us the kick up the arse we needed because we won 7 of our last 9 games to stay up.

Saudi Arabia - Bahrain. AFC World Cup playoff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1nMBPPum-M

This was the game to see who would go through to meet New Zealand to get the last place in the 2010 WC finals. The first leg in Bahrain ended 0-0. And it was 1-1 heading into injury time in the second leg in Riyadh meaning Bahrain would win the game on away goals. However, Saudi Arabia scored to make it 2-1 in the 1st of 3 minutes of injury time. The 70000 fans went mad thinking that it was game over. But Bahrain forced a corner well into the 93rd minute of injury time, took it quickly and scored bang on 93 minutes to send them through.

karma_

Xavi6 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tge11NHJ0U

This game had everything, I remember it so vividly, in the space of a few minutes going from being two nil down at the 90 minute mark feeling utterly deflated to completely ecstatic. Paul Dickov, complete legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Football_League_Second_Division_play-off_Final

Ferris_Bueller

My first ever game I attended was a very dramatic finish iirc, Shamrock Rovers v Longford Town in Richmond park, last game of the season in 2002/03, if Rovers won they got Europe. Rovers went 2-0 up and were going well, great atmosphere in the ground, but then in the last 10 mins Longford pulled two back to make it 2-2, and again if I can remember correctly, in the last minute a Rovers player had a header cleared off the line by a handball, penalty given in the last minute into the goal I was standing behind, slotted away, game over, 3-2, Rovers into europe.

Not bad for a first game!

Fowler87

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD80XYD1FvU

Reekwind

corcaigh07 wrote: »

how has uruguay v ghana not been posted up yet? have no feelings towards either country but that was some finish to a game and it was a dull enough game until suarez handled it off the line...an entire continent denied, awesome!

Ditto. I watched that game in an African bar... absolute bedlam for the last 15 minutes or so

greendom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNekXYhacM

Jelle1880

Some of Turkey's games in the Euro 2008 would definitely fit in this list.

Ganymede Glow

Nobody mentioned this. Both teams playing each other tommorrow in all. tut tut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IyRjEErTbU

dreamers75

All of the above and this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsbBSj4vm30

Omackeral

The most dramatic end to a game I've ever witnessed (and by witnessed I mean been at) was when Bobby Ryan headed home a winner in the 93rd minute to, not only when the game, but clinch the league title for Bohs against Shelbourne in their backyard. Chaotic and one of my favourite memories ever....and not just football memory.

To me, being there experiencing it live with other nutcases was just a million times better than lookin at it on the telly.

Paully D

Omackeral wrote: »

The most dramatic end to a game I've ever witnessed (and by witnessed I mean been at) was when Bobby Ryan headed home a winner in the 93rd minute to, not only when the game, but clinch the league title for Bohs against Shelbourne in their backyard. Chaotic and one of my favourite memories ever....and not just football memory.

To me, being there experiencing it live with other nutcases was just a million times better than lookin at it on the telly.

Best one I've been at:

Sunderland 1-0 Tottenham

First game back in the Premier League for us under Keane, and we open up as the live game against a Spurs side full of top talent aiming for a 4th place spot at the end of the year.

The game is pretty even and I remember saying to my family and friends that a 0-0 draw is a great result to start, before Chopra pops up and scores with the last kick of the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMADzYrMrM8

Washington Irving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-bc0wWMNT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSWrN65VvBY

TaosHum

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

Nobody mentioned this. Both teams playing each other tommorrow in all. tut tut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IyRjEErTbU

This game was arguably just as intense. Obviously didn't have the same meaning to it as the previous one, but the way Newcastle came back from 3 down and the lose it at the end was pretty crushing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdtABrmsFds

markie29

TaosHum wrote: »

This game was arguably just as intense. Obviously didn't have the same meaning to it as the previous one, but the way Newcastle came back from 3 down and the lose it at the end was pretty crushing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdtABrmsFds

remember being in a pub watching this and i was the only Liverpool supporter there the rest were Man U fans or just didnt want Liverpool to win....when Newcastle scored the equaliser they were cheering and shouting in my face.....when liverpool scores the winner i jumped up and start dancing around the place.