I’ll start, richarlison vs serbia

  • 21shazam@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Pavard vs Argentina in 2018 WC. Loved that goal even tho it was against the team I supported.

      • _Bearded_Dad@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Champions League winner, World Champion for club and country.

        Over 100 games for one of the world’s best clubs (Bayern). Almost 50 international caps for one of the world’s best national teams. (France).

        Bang average…

        /s

  • Flatcat_1@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m scared of calling people bang avenge cuz someone someone will get way too mad for no reason.

    But I’m thinking of Nacho’s goal vs Portugal in the 2018 World Cup. Nacho is a good footballer but I can’t think of anything else.

    • sleepytoday@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I agree, but average is a really unhelpful word to use here.

      If you’ve only ever watched Champions League level football then your definition of “average” will be very different compared to if you’ve spent your life watching lower league football.

      I posted the Lewis McGugan goal, but was a bit hesitant to call him average because he was one of the best players in the Championship at the time.

      Whereas OP gave Richarlison (20 goals in 43 appearances for Brazil) as their example of an average player.

      • AndyVale@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Totally, I attend a lot of National League games. The standard is still worlds above anything anyone here could even dream of getting close to.

        Yet when we got to the FA Cup third round and played Watford, up close this PL also-ran team were on another planet.

        Any of those Watford players (Deeney aside) would be deemed “average” by most people here yet were probably in the top 1% of football pros on the planet.

    • TheKinkyPiano@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      My thoughts exactly. Players with 100+ premier league goals and players who scored in a Champions League Final aren’t ‘average’.

    • ghostofkilgore@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The majority are children who know football from playing FIFA and watching a few champions league games every year. Most have never even seen an average footballer.

    • andybuxx@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This whole post is stupid. I’ve seen men in their 50s score incredible goals in the park.

      And that example OP gave?! Who was Richarlison playing for against Serbia? Must be some “bang average” country, I guess.

      • ChrisGadge@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Tbf even if you’re just going bang average among professional footballers the argument is still near enough the same.

  • Chompa16@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Cameron Jerome scored a screamer for Birmingham against Liverpool around 2010

  • justanhumanonyt@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I remember like 3 months ago i was playing with my friends when we stopped for a few seconds for a reason i can’t remember. When we continued i had the ball at my feet and i randomly took a shot with no run up and i curled it into the top corner. I shot from like 12 meters (39 ft) which i know isn’t much but in a 20 meter (65 ft) field with around 3 meter (9ft) goals is pretty impressive. To this day i don’t understand how i had that incredible precision without even moving a single inch.

  • the_peter_green_god@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Darron Gibson scored a few screamers in his day and, by United standards (at the time), he was considered a bang average player with a good strike on him.