Luca Toni anyone?
Regular scorers of only crap goals or tap ins. No smashers remembered.
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That’s not very cha-cha of you.
Raheem Sterling. He's bloody good at it.
Agree on the hole, but he did score goal of the season once!I may well be way off the mark but for a prominent scorer I can only ever remember jermaine defoe scoring routine striker goals. Good finishes but can't think of 'that goal' he scored. Kuyt probably has the odd half decent stroke of fortune, but scored awful goals as long as I can remember including the worst hat trick ever vs united
Edit its already being discussed
Our own Denis Law. Apart from his climbing headers back in the day most of his goals were tap ins inside the box.
Wasnt he mostly famous for scoring tonnes of goals without ever actually being sighted anywhere on the pitch? "Das Phantom" and such.
Julio Salinas.
Raúl.
Patrick Kluivert.
Raúl.
Patrick Kluivert.
Oh behave he scored ridiculous goals.
I do remember a couple great goals by Inzaghi. Scissors-kicks and volleys
I mean, any great goalscorer had at least a couple belters in his career. Hugo Sanchez scored 37 first-touch goals in one season for us, but some of those were stunners
I'd say Oliver Bierhoff, if you're not fond of incredible headers
I mean, any great goalscorer had at least a couple belters in his career. Hugo Sanchez scored 37 first-touch goals in one season for us, but some of those were stunners
I'd say Oliver Bierhoff, if you're not fond of incredible headers
1. It was not including him against Italy that cost Germany the semi-final, it was playing both Ozil and Kroos and shifting Ozil to a RW role which he was not familiar with at all having never played there for Germany or Madrid consistently. Ozil was playing well at AM throughout the tournament and moving him to an unfavoured position completely threw off Germany's tactics.
But yes, pin all the blame on Gomez and ignore his goals against Portugal and Holland in the group stages, which actually helped Germany go that far in the tournament.
2. Bayern reached the UCL final the previous season with Gomez playing as the main striker, a season where he scored 13 goals in 14 UCL matches (41 in 52 overall). That final should've been won by Robben, or had Bayern simply defended a set piece. Yes, I will concede that Mandzukic gave Bayern an extra dimension with his holdup play, but lets not forget that Bayern were already arguably the best team in Europe before he came. And Mandzukic was not the sole reason for Bayern winning, Martinez coming into midfield had a large impact as well.
3. His record after Bayern? He suffered two injuries at Fiorentina right after he signed having already had a long term injury at the start of 12/13 season with Bayern (the reason why Madzukic was given as starting role ahead of him that season). Even then, he scored enough goals at Besiktas (26 goals in 30 matches) and then at Stuttgart (8 in 16) to give him a place in both the Euro 16 and WC' 18 squads.
And why won't you consider his record before Bayern? You know, the reason why Bayern paid a record 35 ME to sign him in the first place? His record then was 79 goals in 106 matches in the 3 seasons prior to joining Bayern (including 11 in 14 European matches, incase you wanted the argument that the Bundesliga was poor then).
Overall, removing his time at Bayern, his record still 165 goals in 345 matches, which is very impressive considering this is including his latter years where he has aged and also injury ridden seasons. Overall, he is easily one of the best strikers of his era but sheer goals scored and is a victim of his generation in terms of the style of football preferred over what he played. But no one can doubt his goalscoring abilities.
EDIT: Btw Lewandowski's goals/min ratio for Bayern is 105 goals/min. Gomez is 99 goals/min and Gomez wasn't a favoured striker in two out of his four seasons. But yes, Lewandowski is/was the best striker in the world while Gomez is average
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Andy Cole was my first thought.
Shearer was a TopTop player, at his peak a mix of Hugo Sanchez and Van Basten, and very close to what CR would be years later. If SAF had signed him in 1995 Man Utd would have won at least 3 UCL in 96-03.
Bicycle kicks, Cantona-esque chips, combination play, all types of finishes...no, he doesn’t belong here. Neither does Shearer, Raul or even RVN in my opinion.
Mostly fox in the box sitters. He scored 98% of those sitters.
Some absolutely awful shouts in here. Shearer, Cole and Ronaldo?
My second thought was that i knew that it wasn't 100% true, he had very many tap ins, but many of his goals also had great build up play, especially with Yorke.
Cute how butthurt you are, though!
First name that came to mind too.
Quality player but did Bebeto ever score quality goals? Might be wrong.
Others: Chicha, Saviola, Jancker?
Shearer, a bit like Roy Keane, remains one of the most underrated footballers in memory. Anybody under the age of 25 only really remembers the old Shearer, heading them in at Newcastle in his 30s.
A 24 year old Alan Shearer, in today’s market, would be smashing the world transfer record. That good.
I'll not have the RvN shouts in here. Even though he primarily / only scored in the box, he often would take about 4 touches to create the perfect chance for himself. His technical ability is severely underrated by some of our more modern fans that clearly didn't watch him week in week out.
I don't want to derail this thread, so I'll keep this brief. Mandzukic's goal record for Bayern is much worse than both players. But that's the point. Goal stats aren't everything. Gomez' goals per minute were through the roof even in 12/13, something like 60 minutes per goal, compared to Mandzukic's 130 minutes per goal. Still Mandzukic played the important matches, still Mandzukic was the one who went on to Atletico and Juventus post Bayern, still they signed Lewandowski, still Klose was prefered in Die Mannschaft and subbed on for him at half time vs Italy, because Gomez game was too one dimensional, he would score tons of goals when the team was creating good chances for him while (or when they could counter attack like Stuttgart), but in the close matches he was a liability and his teams were disjointed, because he couldn't support his team mates nearly as good as much less scoring strikers like Klose or Mandzukic.EDIT: Btw Lewandowski's goals/min ratio for Bayern is 105 goals/min. Gomez is 99 goals/min and Gomez wasn't a favoured striker in two out of his four seasons. But yes, Lewandowski is/was the best striker in the world while Gomez is average
A big part of Bayern's problems in van Gaal's second season was that teams would just double and triple press Ribery and Robben and get away with committing so many players, because with Gomez Bayern couldn't exploit the center.
He was born a decade too late.
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Lee Chapman
Can't believe no one's mentioned Lee Chapman
Shearer scores a lot of belters
Peter Withe. Even his goal that won the European Cup for Villa came off his shin.
John Aldridge
Ian Ormondroyd - A bad Peter Crouch-a like.
I know, I saw a clip earlier.
Think I was being bitter as we didn’t get him. I only really remember the shit celebrations.
Miguel Angel Mista, La Liga wasn't about tiki taka 20 years ago, we were as crappy as it gets.
Allan Clarke
Even if you want to narrow it down to just his world cup goals, though they were mostly one touch finishes, I find his goals against Argentina 2006 and England 2010 truly spectacular tap ins. Far from the 2 meter open goal tap ins.
Lineker, Rush, Greaves, Muller and, more recently, Inzaghi come to mind.
Adam Rooney. His twitter bio is something like Penalties, headers, tap ins.
Maybe not in general, but Kane's WC Golden Boot goals were legendary
Makaay shouldn't be on this list.
I can remember some absolute beauties he scored for Bayern from outside the box. His right foot was lethal.
And to mention Ronaldo in this thread surely must be a troll!? Is there a player in the history of the game who would have a longer Youtube Highlight Video of absolute screamers? Only one i can think of is Messi.
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If we're going to do the exact opposite of this thread, Matt Le Tissier.
That Asian guy who used to play for city:
Lee one pen
Lee one pen
Someone should make a thread like that.