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Boardsies Decide : Greatest FIFA World Cup Goal

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Carlos Alberto progresses but it was a close tussle. The Random Generator is getting the next match prepared as we speak...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,545 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    I enjoy watching Tshabalala's goal more, but ultimately I'll have to go for Carlos Alberto. I don't think it should advance any further, but it deserves it for the context, and it's a nice finish to be fair.
    You'd have made it a draw if you'd followed your heart. I don't want to say it's all your fault, but... :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Alessandro Del Piero (Italy vs France, 2006)



    VS

    Mario Gotze (Germany vs Argentina, 2014)






  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,545 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Del Piero

    It's art, isn't it? The build up is decent but the final little switch pass is beautiful*. Then, on the run, he doesn't lash it, he just calmly caresses it into the top corner. Genuinely wonderful

    *edit, just watched it again and again. Look at the angle at 50s, he doesn't look once at where he's passing it. Sublime

    And it's after two hours of semi final football against one of the best teams in the world


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,679 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Del Piero.

    Cannavarvo's determination to win the ball back. Gilardino's assist and Del Piero's total assurance and control when he strikes the ball. Just class.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭MrKingsley


    Ooooh this is a doozy!!

    Love both goals. They are both massive for their countries.

    I think Del Piero just pips it for me. Slightly more to the goal. And I really just love that finish


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I think Del Piero will win this but I'm voting Gotze for the sheer significance of the goal. Not to mention it's a super finish too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    ADP, a fantastic goal. I don't really see what the fuss is about the Gotze one to be honest.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,339 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Del Porto - the play out of defence was superb, but the little pass into Del Piero's path was absolutely sublime.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Del Piero at a canter

    Everything about it was sublime.

    @Omackeral, you had me all confused there wondering when Del Porto scored that against France in the Final when I saw the title above it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,679 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    The commentary is excellent on the Grosso and ADP goals, not that I understand a word of it - but I can understand all the hoarse emotional overload.

    So much better than some clown shouting GOOOOOOOL until boredom sets in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,701 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Del piero vs GERMANY for me

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Del Piero. What a wonderful counter attack against some increasingly desperate Germans. And that mad Italian commentary. And that finish.

    Gotze's goal is a nice goal, but nothing special other than it being a winner in a final.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Del Piero 8 - 1 Gotze


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Alessandro Del Piero with a runaway win here. Two underdog nations are coming up next.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Archie Gemill (Scotland vs Netherlands, 1978)



    VS

    Roger Milla (Cameroon vs Romania, 1990)



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭MrKingsley


    Jesus how is Milla still in?

    Archie all the way for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,545 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Italia '90 was my first world cup really, and Milla was my favourite non-irish player. But that goal's fairly run of the mill for me (his defining one was robbing Higuita on the halfway line)

    That Gemill one though, he dances though all of them. OK they're lunging in a bit, but he's still making the "total football" gurus look like kids in the schoolyard. Then it's a lovely, composed finish when he must have been ODing on adrenaline!

    Vote Gemill


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Archie Gemill - no contest for me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,679 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Tough choice, both two excellent goals.

    Archie Gemmill.

    The build up is so scrappy, players slipping and sliding everywhere - until Gemmill comes roaring into proceedings, like a magical imp with different skill settings to everyone else. Puts one lad on his arse, nutmegs the next, who is also left on his arse, gets past another Dutch defender, whose arse also meets grass and nutmegs his own teammate in the same movement on his way to goal, before a lovely classy finish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,603 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Gemill for me too

    Loved the Cameroon story in Italia 90 and they were robbed against England but Gemill's goal is way better


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    10 minutes remaining.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,545 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Omackeral wrote: »
    10 minutes remaining.
    tenor.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,701 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Archie Gemmil

    Thats not even millas best goal at that WC...poor selection

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Gemill 6 - 0 Milla


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,810 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Del Piero if not too late to vote


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    Gemil.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Del Piero if not too late to vote

    That was 2 matches ago :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,679 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Really enjoy watching these goals again, even if I've seen them all before. The greatest goals get better the harder you look at them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Sublime vs Ridiculous coming up...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Roberto Baggio (Italy vs Czechoslovakia, 1990)



    VS

    Tim Cahill (Australia vs Netherlands, 2014)




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭The Floyd p


    Tim Cahill all day! Baggio goal suffers from poor defending, Cahill's goal has ridiculous technique, off the bar only adds to the aesthetic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,679 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Baggio's goal would win a few one on ones and usually I think single hit goals aren't as impressive as intricate goals, but I have to go with Cahill here.

    There's such purity in his connection with the ball, power in the shot itself and precision in how it crashes in off the bar.

    A player connecting with meaty volley onto a dropping ball is one of the most fundamentally satisfying sights in football, and they don't get much sweeter than Cahill's goal there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,603 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Cahill all day for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,701 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Cahill

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    Tim Cahill. Incredible volley that should go a long way in this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    Roberto Baggio

    Tippy-tappy one-two, forceful run like a tip-toeing rhino on the rampage, balletic dummy that sends the defender into orbit, smashing the onion net with the composure of a great Italian chef; more poetic than an operatic opus from Pavarotti! The divine ponytail left a trail of divs and donkeys in his wake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Baggio, as its a great goal and not getting near enough love on this thread


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Baggio and his tippy toeing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭MrKingsley


    Great match up this.

    Cahill for me though. Full volleys are great and crossbars are even better. Such a sweet strike and a big goal for Australia.

    Shame because I love baggios as well but Cahills is another level


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,810 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Baggio 3 - 7 Cahill


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    A great battle in the middle of that bout with a resurgence from the Italian but that thunderbastard from Cahill had too much in the end. Coming up is a battle of the South American powerhouses with two completly different types of goals. Interested to get your thoughts on this next match-up...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Ronaldinho (Brazil vs England, 2002)



    VS

    Estaban Cambiasso (Argentina vs Serbia, 2006)






  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Cambiasso. I still think Seaman's dodgy positioning is a large factor in that goal by Ronaldinho and I'll not hear anything to dissuade me :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭MrKingsley


    Cambiasso hands down for me. Unbelievable move with almost everyone involved.

    Never really rated Ronaldinhos all that highly. I’d have it as bad goal keeping more so than anything exceptional from him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    Cambiasso. Crap keeping from Seaman caused the other one, so not a classic for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,679 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I'm going to go with Ronaldinho here. Seaman's positioning was off, but he couldn't have expected Ronaldinho to even think about going for it from there, let alone doing it. And I think Ronaldinho totally meant it - look at how he looks up and how he shapes to strike the ball.

    That Cambiasso goal is a brilliant team goal, but it's also wildly overrated. 26 passes, but about 20 are just recycling possession. The final few passes are very nifty, but it's still overrated in my book.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,545 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Ronaldinho for the sheer audacity of trying it.
    Seeing the keeper off his line, and then executing that kick, over that distance, with that accuracy

    For the other one, quantity of passes does not make quality. Most of the passes in the build up are just knocking it round the halfway line unchallenged, I could do that


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    That Argentina goal never did it for me, so Ronaldhino.


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