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Boardsies Decide : Greatest FIFA World Cup Goal

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    #32
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Cahill is a title contender. Brilliant technique.

    I think Josimar just takes second for me - very similar to the Ronaldinho goal actually; the trajectory and the keepers' reactions in particular.

    Love the unexpected angles in the Borgetti goal, but just gets squeezed out for me


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    #33
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,995 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Josimar 1st
    Tim Cahill 2nd
    Jared Borgetti 3rd
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #34
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Just over 5 minutes remaining


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    #35
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Tim Cahill 5
    Josimar 5
    - - - - -
    Jared Borgetti 2


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    #36
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,341 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Drat! Missed out on a few there.

    That Cahill goal is seriously underrated in the pantheon of great World Cup goals. The technique is outrageous. Easily the best goal of 2014 for me.


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    #37
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Plenty more group stage action to go so no worries if you missed the opening evening. We’ll be back tonight with more belters.


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    #38
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Hopefully get this one going before 8:30pm


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    #39
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Ray Houghton (Ireland vs Italy, 1994)

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


    VS

    Hans Krankl (Austria vs West Germany, 1978)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-hpafbbkrc


    VS

    Robbie Keane (Ireland vs Germany, 2002)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIexE4B1GHY







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    #40
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    I'm going with Robbie. Have that commentary and memory baked into me.


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    #41
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    I'm going with Robbie. Have that commentary and memory baked into me.

    Just a reminder that it's top two progressing. So rank them in order of preference. Who's your runner-up?


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    #42
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,680 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Oh this is impossible. Should we vote with the heart or try to be impartial?
    That Krankl goal is a gem but Houghton's is a cracker too, and Robbie's stirs so many emotions...


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    #43
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Controversial - two Ireland goals together!

    I like the Keane goal. Football is great when a goal comes out of absolutely nothing. The surprise of a direct goal at its best beats a 20-move pass.

    So Keane for me, ahead of Krankl, and Houghton unfortunately isn't at the races. Though like an ugly child, I still love it. :)


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    #44
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Just a reminder that it's top two progressing. So rank them in order of preference. Who's your runner-up?

    You can tell I'm a blow-in who didn't read the rules.

    I shall pretend to be impartial and have Krankl's excellent strike second, I don't remember 94 so much :pac:

    1. Keane
    2. Krankl
    3. Houghton


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    #45
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,680 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    OK, I'm going to vote on the quality of the goal, with a little bias added into the mix

    1. Houghton - nips in to steal it from the defensive masters, sees the keeper off his line and calmly lifts it over and in. It's majestic
    2. Krankl - beautiful hit, but he's falling so it has some fortune to it, unlike Houghton
    3. Keane - breaks my heart. I remember that moment, still gives me goosebumps, but the goal itself isn't as good as the other two (not that it needs my vote by the look of it!)


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    #46
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    Oh this is impossible. Should we vote with the heart or try to be impartial?
    That Krankl goal is a gem but Houghton's is a cracker too, and Robbie's stirs so many emotions...

    I anxiously await your shout!


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    #47
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    10 minutes remaining in Group E


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    #48
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,341 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Number one would be Krankel: the initial control of the first touch is pretty nifty in its own right, but to get that power and placement on it, all in one movement, without it hitting the ground, while falling at an angle is, all in all, pretty amazing. Something very satisfying about the angles involved.

    Number two would be Ray Houghton: he gets a bit lucky, with the keeper being completely out of position, but you make your own luck sometimes. The way he chests the ball into his stride is underrated, great anticipation, and even though it eventually floats into the net he has to angle his body and get power on it to make it happen. It's a more difficult strike then it looks at first glance

    Number three is Robbie Keane: it's an iconic goal and in terms of pure drama it has the other two beat, but it's just not as good objectively as the other choices. Long ball, textbook flick on, in fairness Keane does well - he reads what's going on before the defenders and his speed fools the defender into slicing at nothing as he runs through and there is instinctive cleverness in the way he angles the ball above Kahn who has spread himself - well is more like a boulder in mid flight. Bit fluky too all the same, Kahn nearly gets his body in the way. Not a bad goal, certainly dramatic, but we've all seen similar goals down through the years.


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    #49
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,013 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Keane
    Houghton
    Krankel

    Heart over head here admittedly


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    #50
    Reberetta
    Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    1. Krankl
    2. Houghton
    3. Keane


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    #51
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Krankl 13
    Keane 12
    Houghton 11


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    #52
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    That was our closest group yet, the order changed so many times but Reberetta's votes are the one that seal the positions. Stay tuned for Group F...


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    #53
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,341 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Close!


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    #54
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    That was tighter than it should have been! Always thought Pagliuca should have easily saved Houghton's shot tbh.


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    #55
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Roberto Baggio (Italy vs Czechoslovakia, 1990)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUeRn5c3Tc


    VS

    Benjamin Pavard (France vs Argentina, 2018)

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


    VS

    Giovanni Van Bronckhorst (Netherlands vs Uruguay, 2010)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbmDQ92Al4M







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    #56
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Pavard video not working.

    Gio's goal is a replica of the one he scored against us in 2000, so it gets downvoted for that

    Pavard goal is technically superb (from recollection) and I'll shade it ahead of Baggio

    Edit - Omack has fixed the video. All hail! :)


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    #57
    Reberetta
    Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    1. Baggio
    2. Pavard
    3. van Bronckhorst


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    #58
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    cdeb wrote: »
    Pavard video not working.

    FIFA have it blocked off boards.ie :pac:

    The video I've put up has annoying music on it but hold out for the second angle and judge from that.


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    #59
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    1 Pavard. technically perfect and good build up. And equaliser
    2. Baggio. makes it look effortless


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    #60
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,013 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Baggio
    Van Bronckhorst
    Pavard

    Out of the two longer range efforts I like Van Bronckhorsts a little bit more. Absolute screamer.


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    #61
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,358 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    1. Pavard, outside of the foot, moving ball, superb
    2. Baggio, weak defence made it look good.
    3. van Bronckhorst, meh.


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