Giroud's goal

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SAFC Nacho said:
No not really, if it was a fluke they wouldn't have known anything about it or it would have been a miskick.

Both players saw the ball coming to them, made the decision to kick it the way they did and pulled off an immensely difficult connection, maybe on some level Giroud knew exactly where he wanted the ball to go and maybe he didn't but if a player kicks the ball at goal in the manner they intended and it goes in then it's not a fluke.
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Have it any way you want, but I will never believe that the move was planned or intentional. He swung a foot at the ball that was behind him and it hit his heel precisely over the goali's hands into the top corner when reality it could have gone anywhere. Doubtless it was spectacular.

Compare that to Wijnaldum's header for LFC, ball pulled back at height into danger area to be met on the penalty spot with an awesome header off the centre of the brow and directed into the corner. Header's don't come better than that and straight out of the text book.
 
Nads said:
Disregarding the offside, which takes nothing away from the tekkers and finish, the way Arsenal broke out with a back heel and 2 one touch knock one in the mix made it stunning.

It's not a fluke, Giroud watches the ball and deliberately aims to do that, if that's a fluke every 30 yard strike is as well.

It was sensational.
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Agree about the build up and 30 yarder as the player has sight of goal and lets fly. As long he gets on goal there is a chance of scoring, spectacular or not.
 
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Both were incredible bits of quick thinking, improvisation and skill.

The offside doesn't really come into it for me. Giroud's is just the better goal. He barely changes his stride to do it. Insane.

Whether a Sunderland player had been a couple of yards closer to goal or not... That wouldn't improve what mikey ryan did for me. It was a top bit of technique.

But giroud's was just a bit better.
 
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Nostalgic said:
Have it any way you want, but I will never believe that the move was planned or intentional. He swung a foot at the ball that was behind him and it hit his heel precisely over the goali's hands into the top corner when reality it could have gone anywhere. Doubtless it was spectacular.

Compare that to Wijnaldum's header for LFC, ball pulled back at height into danger area to be met on the penalty spot with an awesome header off the centre of the brow and directed into the corner. Header's don't come better than that and straight out of the text book.
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It's a difficult one to agree on I think, whether moments like that are flukes or genius.

The way I see it is this. Let's say you stand ten metres away from a small vertical pole, are given small rings to try and throw onto it and are blindfolded. It's going to take you a long, long time to get one on there, but when you do it's because of the perfect marriage of instinctively knowing where your target is and your body doing exactly what you will it to.

Just because all your previous attempts were rubbish doesn't mean that when you eventually did it right it was a fluke, instead it was you finally achieving perfection.
 
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Santa Tel said:
I'd probably give the better goal to Giroud to be honest, given he scored against much tougher opposition, however, being a United fan I enjoy watching Mkhitaryan's goal much more.
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But the Utd goal was illegal
 
I reckon he meant to do what he did, perhaps he never meant for it to go in off the bar but he improvised and hoped.

Judging by his face afterwards he probably gave himself 1 in a million chance of it going in, but it did, if you don't have a ticket you can't win the raffle.
 
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Santa Tel said:
Vince it's sour grapes mate, you lot would be pulling your plonkers for years to come if Defoe would have scored that goal at Old Trafford.
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Yeh eventually the elation of the goal will fade away
When the majority of people realise it was illegal
Sour grapes yeh
 
wow Tel ive heard THAT THERE IS nowt nastier than a woman scorned and i believed it until i read your comments about Man U,red specs surely, think the lads are on a wind up cos you biting mate
 
Amsterdam Roger said:
wow Tel ive heard THAT THERE IS nowt nastier than a woman scorned and i believed it until i read your comments about Man U,red specs surely, think the lads are on a wind up cos you biting mate
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Mate, of all posters on this board you are the last one who can't talk about biting, you lose your **** every time somebody calls your boyfriend a nasty name <laugh>
 
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