A textbook howler by San José Earthquakers ‘keeper Daniel Vega is this week’s entry for And finally… taking his eye of the ball at a crucial moment, and handing a 1-0 lead to their MLS opponents FC Dallas.
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Clear filterA textbook howler by San José Earthquakers ‘keeper Daniel Vega is this week’s entry for And finally… taking his eye of the ball at a crucial moment, and handing a 1-0 lead to their MLS opponents FC Dallas.
Wendy Renard gives us the first entry into the And finally… archive from this summer’s Women’s World Cup in France. The French defender’s meek intervention sends the ball trickling over the line (skip to 51 seconds).
Last week confirmation came that Coventry City would be groundsharing for the second time in six seasons – here Moz Baker from the Sky Blue Trust gives us their reaction to the team’s ‘home’ games being at St Andrew’s in Birmingham next season…
Echoes of Jason Cundy at Portman Road in the nineties with this week’s And finally – a truly daft goal from Extremadura’s Carlos Pomares against Cadiz in La Liga II – a block tackle on the halfway sending the ball 50 yards over the Cadiz keeper.
Valencia beat Barcelona in the Copa Del Rey final this week with a 2-1 win at Estadio Benito Villamarín. Arturo Vidal had a chance to get Barcelona back in the game in the 55th minute, after the usual sublime skill from Lionel Messi, but the Chilean’s wild slice sent the rebound into row Z.
This week Argentinian defender Martin Mantovani scored three goals in La Liga: two in the right end and one in the wrong one as Huesca beat Leganés 2-1 on the final day. Incidentally, Mantovani made over 200 appearances for Leganés previously but his superhero antics weren’t enough to save Huesca from the drop.
Two supporter-owned clubs will be going head-to-head in a prestigious pre-season game in July’s Brian Lomax Cup.
We had little choice this week for and finally…. Mike Dean is box office wherever he goes. Eschewing his normal black outfit and whistle to cheer on his Tranmere Rovers side in their playoff victory over Forest Green Rovers, the Sky cameras couldn’t help but pick him out in the post-match celebrations…
Even though this rocket against Cruzeiro in the Copa Libertadores rattled the crossbar, the power behind it was enough to see it bounce off the goalie and into the net for one very unlucky own goal. To add salt to Fabio’s wounds, Cruzeiro went on to lose to Emelec 2-1.
Pacific FC striker Marcus Haber tried valiantly to beat the post in the Canadian Premier League this week, but the post stood firm, denying him the chance to put his team in front (they lost 2-1).
Why anyone gets involved with panenka style-penalties, despite the many high profile videos in recent years showing how risky they are, is beyond us. This week Venezuelan Brendix Parra was sacked by his club after this disastrous contribution to panenka lore – costing his side their place in the Copa Sudamericana.
What do you do when you’re holding your own against the league leaders, 1-1 in the dying moments? According to Sutton United’s goalie, you do some keepy-ups in the box while two forwards close you down, concede a penalty and hand victory to your opponents.
Jean-Eric Choupo-Moting is the new king of And finally… thanks to his efforts for PSG at the weekend. Choupo-Moting’s intervention on the goal line against Strasbourg was catastrophically inept that it has to go down as the worst miss of all time.
Scoring an own goal can be extremely embarrassing (just ask Henri Lansbury) but Ajax’s Argentinian full-back Nicolás Tagliafico doesn’t seem to bothered by this one – in his defence, Ajax were 5-0 up at the time…
Dunston UTS provide us with this week’s And finally… as the lousy Smarch weather catches out the poor Guisborough Town goalie, whose free-kick comes back at him as a wind-assisted volley travelling the length of the pitch. Great stuff.
Cagliari’s Luca Cigarini scored (what would have been) one of the goals of the season against Fiorentina in Serie A recently – finding the net from his own half. However, the show-off failed to realise that free-kicks from offsides are indirect.
The panenka style penalty is a risky business – get it right and you look suave leaving the keeper scrambling. Get it wrong and you look like, well, you look like Swansea City’s Bersant Celina at the Hawthorns this week. Truly terrible.
Deportivo Carcha’s Luis Acuna was booked for this unique celebration – after tucking away a penalty he climbs a ladder to update the scoreboard himself. On returning to the field the referee promptly booked him.
Lechia Gdansk might be be getting a letter from NASA after Konrad Michalak threatened the International Space Station with this orbital drive against Górnik Zabrze in the Polish Cup. Luckily for Michalak Lechia hung on for a 2-1 win.
Seeing a penalty ballooned into the stands is a simple pleasure and the subject of this week’s And finally… Bristol Rovers forward Jonson Clarke-Harris provides the laughs with what he described as “one really bad penalty”. He scored the other, mind.
