Best first touches you've seen
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Haha! The casual manner about it makes this my favourite.
Great thread.
That's 'root one' football at it's best. Some people on this forum call it Hoofball. I love it.
It's quick, incisive, cut's out the midfield drama - defence to attack to goal score in less than 10 seconds. Love it.
Counter attacking football is my favourite, due to the speed at which the players and the ball travels.
Possession football is my least favourite, probably because we used to play like that under LVG and it bored the hell out of me.
The good thing about scoring a goal like this is that it can completely demoralise your opponent. The opponent may have lots of possession and may be playing pretty football, but when you encounter a team who only care about winning and are ruthless, it kills your opponent's belief that they can win. I am not sure why we don't play like this, against teams who have a superior midfield. Absolutely nothing wrong with 'root one' football, when we are outgunned in midfield and it's the only way to get the win. We should've done this against MCFC, last week.
BTW, let's hope that Lukaku does not see this thread.
It will be incredibly demoralising for him.
It will be incredibly demoralising for him.
Del Bosque's Real Madrid was really good in this kind of goals.
Surprised there's others than Berba mentioned in this thread.
Excellent, quick question as a PSG fan, do you think Pastore has somewhat wasted his potential or not?
Yeah, frustrating player but on the other hand 1) this artist is fragile and frequently injured and 2) he's an aesthete not known for his fighting spirit.
The competition is tough but he's very versatile: can play on the wing or as a central playmaker.
Below his injury track record!
https://www.transfermarkt.com/javier-pastore/verletzungen/spieler/55215
A new challenger has arrived from... Singapore?!
Random bump, but I was watching PL goals from 06/07 yesterday.
This beauty from Berbatov was on it.
This beauty from Berbatov was on it.
How is this thread getting bumped this week and it not being for Amad!
Saw the thread title. Thought of Berbatov. Enter the thread and the first post I see is a berba highlight. Giggs had a silky touch too.
That ball was fecking travelling from Scholes as well. Unreal footballer.
He had insane first touch control, saw one of those stupid videos a while ago where they aimed footballs at him, 60-100km from a machine. He took one to the nuts but still manages to bring one under control at over 100km.
Classiest first touch ever:
Well-helped by the fact he’s wearing a suit.
Well-helped by the fact he’s wearing a suit.
That was my first thought
Can't believe no one mentioned Mahrez until now.
He's up there with the very best and had the best first touch in the PL when he was there.
He's up there with the very best and had the best first touch in the PL when he was there.
Can’t remember what game it was but Juan Matas when the ball went miles into the air and came back down and he controlled it beautifully.
Wow I think I never saw a scene similar to that.
It almost reminds me of Shaolin Kickers.
Filthy from Edmundo
.. And Scholes' ghost-pass. What a pass.
Indeed
This vid is great, it follows the Thread premise, yet some of the passes/plays after such great controls are equally as great, his skills and reading of the game was off charts (for instance the first play).
To pull out those controls, some with his back facing the rival's net and right after it put a ball with the perfect weight, spin and "message"...well it's just a portrait of what Diego was as a footballer that can't be described with mere stats or even with over the top Epic leader narratives, this kind of plays it's what made me love him more as a footballer, these "little" details.
Other gems..
I remember one play in Napoli where a mate just send a rocket to his chest, he was on the border of the big area, he killed that rocket and after he turned around facing the rival's net and he scored or assisted, I can't recall, but I never forgot how he killed that missile to his chest and his isntant reaction without loosing a milisecond to create the next play, I wish I recall against whom was to find it.
To pull out those controls, some with his back facing the rival's net and right after it put a ball with the perfect weight, spin and "message"...well it's just a portrait of what Diego was as a footballer that can't be described with mere stats or even with over the top Epic leader narratives, this kind of plays it's what made me love him more as a footballer, these "little" details.
Other gems..
I remember one play in Napoli where a mate just send a rocket to his chest, he was on the border of the big area, he killed that rocket and after he turned around facing the rival's net and he scored or assisted, I can't recall, but I never forgot how he killed that missile to his chest and his isntant reaction without loosing a milisecond to create the next play, I wish I recall against whom was to find it.
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Great wide player who I think overtime will get somewhat forgotten about.
We really should of brought him in 2017.
Oh, had no memory of Baggio and Pirlo together! Even if I have seen the goal many times.
fecking great
There was one I always remember from Berbatov.
He was playing for us, and I think it was right at the end of the match. Berb was standing around the half way line, and someone launched a ball from the penalty area towards him.
He just stuck his foot out and stopped the ball dead in mid air, then the whistle for full time blew.
No idea what game it was, but it was magnificent.
He was playing for us, and I think it was right at the end of the match. Berb was standing around the half way line, and someone launched a ball from the penalty area towards him.
He just stuck his foot out and stopped the ball dead in mid air, then the whistle for full time blew.
No idea what game it was, but it was magnificent.
Yes it was very similar to that! Great clip!
Pretty sure it was Milan at home in 2010(4-0) but the video is gone from YouTube
Wow those Ozil ones are insane. What an incredible talent he was.
It has to be Thierry Henry. That first touch on Carragher
Against Liverpool
Milan at home at half time I think.
Yeah 2010 round of 16
Lubomir Moravcik controlling a cross feild ball with his Arse
Eric plucking this out of the air and bringing it down was magnificent.
The lack of our own Mark Hughes in this thread saddens me.
