Best Ever Volley Goals
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WashYourHands
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IdleRich
IdleRich
I dunno if this link will work for you guys or not but it popped up randomly on my facebook and it fits perfectly so I'd like to share it.
In case it doesn't work it's basically a wonder goal in some kind of amateur small-sided game (with no "head height" rule apparently) in which a player runs through and then shoots - but his shot hits the bar and loops up high, floating out of the area, by which time the striker has run back, re-adjusted himself and he overhead volleys in his own rebound from outside the box (admittedly a small box).
In case it doesn't work it's basically a wonder goal in some kind of amateur small-sided game (with no "head height" rule apparently) in which a player runs through and then shoots - but his shot hits the bar and loops up high, floating out of the area, by which time the striker has run back, re-adjusted himself and he overhead volleys in his own rebound from outside the box (admittedly a small box).
IdleRich
IdleRich
Don't think we've had Tony Yeboah in here yet... there are five goals here counted down from number five to one and it's yet another one that has me thinking we need a distinction for types of volley (probably in Spain or Brazil or something they have names for every different kind).
Anyway, as I said, when I started this thread what I had in mind were those ones where the ball comes flying through the air from a cross or such like and our hero throws himself at it, intercepting it on the full and smashing it into the net with his first (or sometimes second) touch - as with the fourth goal (number two in the countdown), but number five and number one are also technically volleys I suppose, ones where the ball is bouncing around within the protagonist's sphere of influence and he chooses his moment to savagely bazooka it through the keeper into the net. Also good, just not what sparked the thread.
And of course you have half-volleys which are technically I think when the ball bounces and is struck just as it rises from the ground.
Anyway, however we slice them, Yeboah scored some goals which magnificently combined perfect beautiful technique with brutal power
Check out how hard he hit that first one - he must have a foot like a traction engine!
Anyway, as I said, when I started this thread what I had in mind were those ones where the ball comes flying through the air from a cross or such like and our hero throws himself at it, intercepting it on the full and smashing it into the net with his first (or sometimes second) touch - as with the fourth goal (number two in the countdown), but number five and number one are also technically volleys I suppose, ones where the ball is bouncing around within the protagonist's sphere of influence and he chooses his moment to savagely bazooka it through the keeper into the net. Also good, just not what sparked the thread.
And of course you have half-volleys which are technically I think when the ball bounces and is struck just as it rises from the ground.
Anyway, however we slice them, Yeboah scored some goals which magnificently combined perfect beautiful technique with brutal power
Check out how hard he hit that first one - he must have a foot like a traction engine!
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Tony Y hit such a ripe seam of form at Leeds. The fact goal 2 isn’t quite his peak is insane. Power, precision and too good for a raft of PL centre halves
Hadn’t seen. To think Villa won a European Cup too, they should be a top 6 team if you take the Midlands as a whole - Coventry, Brum City, Wolves, WBA, er Walsall
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
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Cat Malogen
Sliced cross exocet, no way he meant it but probably didn’t have to buy a round for a few weeke
IdleRich
IdleRich
I remember this one - at the time was a big game with English clubs just allowed back in Europe and their champions Leeds taking on Rangers. Great goal here from McCallister at about 1 min 12 seconds but Rangers had the last laugh I seem to remember
Bloody hell, that's thirty years ago next week.
Champions of Scotland - still Rangers - played English Champions Liverpool last week but the similarities ended there as Liverpool put seven on them.
Bloody hell, that's thirty years ago next week.
Champions of Scotland - still Rangers - played English Champions Liverpool last week but the similarities ended there as Liverpool put seven on them.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Triggered! Huns qualified as runners up Rich. Liverpool were very average and still tonked loads past
More for the footy thread but both Celtic and the Huns would be lower table borderline relegation fodder if they were accepted into PL
IdleRich
IdleRich
Did they come second? My bad. I guess Liverpool did too come to think of it. Champoins' League has always been a misnomer.
Not triggered but really lamenting the fact that thirty years ago the battle of England vs Scotland was one where the outcome was in doubt. I think it's a shame that Spain, England and, to a lesser extent, Germany and Italy dominate the CL so much and once great teams that have won the trophy - Celtic, Benfica, Red Star Belgrade etc - no longer have a prayer. I particularly think of the demise of the Portuguese teams of course who used to be in the mix and now basically provide target practice for the likes of Liverpool.
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