What is the best Goal you’ve seen scored by a bang average footballer?
Some footballers can only be described as ok but they do score some worldies on occasion. Think JordanAyew vs West Ham. Think Pajtim Kasami vs Palace. Think anytime Matt Taylor saw a ball dropping by the halfway line. Give me your best
Hamit Altintop for Turkey 2010
He won a Puskas award for this hit and even got a transfer to Real Madrid
Anything but bang average, but Tiote’s only goal for Newcastle was a belter.
And his goal against city that was disallowed for no reason
Thats hurts till this day
Cisse v Chelsea. End of thread.
Chelsea fan here. Have to admit that it’s one of the best goals I ever saw. Can’t even be mad about it.
The banana shot goal is legendary. So legendary that we always overlook the first one he scored, which was very similar to Henry’s volley vs United
He scored 13 goals in 13 starts for Newcastle that season and was a big part of why they finished 5th.
He continue scoring goals in a mediocre side for several years afterwards
He might not have been great by Chelsea’s lofty standards but he was hardly “bang average”…
After that initial season he was the definition of a bang average striker in the premier league, or even downright poor. The following season he scored 8 in 36 games in the league, season after that he scored 2 in 24. Then in 14/15 he scored 11 in 22 which is good but then the season after he scored 2 in 22 which is awful. You’re looking at him with rose tinted glasses if you call him anything other than bang average.
He (alongside Demba Ba) was probably the best striker we had in the premier league between Alan Shearer and Callum Wilson (other candidates - Carroll, Toney, Mitrovic - weren’t with us long enough or went on to much greater success after leaving)
I don’t think it’s rose-tinted glasses to say that he was a good striker in a shite team.
As a Newcastle fan since the 80s, believe me when I say I have no rose-tinted memories of the period of Ashley’s ownership
Ba was definitely better.
Cisse just had the purple patch of all purple patches that season.
Ba was better. Cisse class first half season but forgot the offside rule there on after
Cisse wasn’t bang average, haaland couldn’t score goals under Steve mcclaren. A bang average striker is carlton Cole or francis jeffers, cisse was never bang average
Scoring twice in 20+ games is beyond shit regardless of manager. He did it two season as well btw. Give it a rest. He was average.
Lol joey altidore never scored that, what is he if cisse is bang average? Did you just start watching premier league 2 years ago? There’s been plenty of bang average strikers cisse was never one
Jozy Altidore is shit obviously? lol what is that comparison😂 You’re just clueless mate.
Just cos a striker isn’t haaland or messi you don’t rate him, shows where your head is at.
Andros Townsend against City
Andros Townsend free kick for Newcastle vs (I think) Crystal Palace
I’d say AT was above average as a footballer… I could be wrong though. Plus he was someone who was known to have a little flair and scored a few bangers. I don’t think he quite fits the question…
I’d say AT was above average as a footballer
He definitely wasn’t.
He scored 25 goals in 268 PL appearances. It’s fucking awful
He took a decent corner with his right foot the other day, so he’s ambidextrous to a Premier League level which is also very impressive
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Maybe not the best, but Elneny vs Barcelona was pretty sweet
Mo has scored quite a few screamers to be fair.
He has pretty much ONLY scored long-distance screamers for Arsenal!
Lanzini vs. Spurs in the 2020/21 season .
That was some comeback. I nearly dropped my phone in the bath when he scored
Would you consider Phil Jagielka in an FA Cup quarter final against Liverpool average?
Safe one is just any of Demarai Gray’s goals. As a player he is as average as they come but when he does show up it’s beautiful
If Jagielka was bang average, almost 99% of all players who have ever played in the PL should be considered average or below average
Richarlison in the World Cup.
Can we describe someone playing for Brazil at the World Cup as ‘bang average’?
I’m thinking the level is more championship standard / up-down PL team.
If you put another striker from a championship standard / up-down PL team into spurs I think you’d still get the same level of performance so yeah
Below average at best but yes I agree.
You think Richarlison is an average player🤨
2 goals in 37 PL games for Tottenham seems to think so
Robert Rosario for Norwich vs Southampton (Goal of the Season 89/90).
This was pre-Premier League so it may not have actually happened.
Danny Rose goal vs Arsenal
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Mohamed elneny. Take your pick
Hal Robson-Kanu, euro 2016 vs Belgium for wales, scored a screamer of a goal, quick turn on 3 defenders and a nice finish! Scored a goal worthy of prime hazard vs Hazard. Always was reliable but that was absolute world class.
In a similar style Fabrice Pancrate pulled this out the bag in his second game for us and then turned out to be absolutely dogshit.
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Best goal I will ever see live, not just for the turn but for the occasion and the madness in the stands after it happened!
Wasn’t he an out-of-contract championship player at the time too?
You, Sir, can piss off. I nearly had an aneurysm when I read that and realised that goal was 7.5 years ago.
Winks vs Ludogorets
Andros Townsend v City.
Possibly not even a bang average player tbh but Alexander Buttners debut goal was actually really good.