McAteer. Team goal beats a punt from the keeper.
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McAteer. Team goal beats a punt from the keeper.
McAteer even though Shane Long’s goal was a cracker.
Some Lovely touches in the build up to McAteers Goal. Football is Lovely when the Poetry comes Together !
McAteer - easy one. Don't think Long's goal should be anywhere near the last 8 to be honest, just a long punt and a decent shot.
McAteer. He loves scoring against the Dutch.
McAteer, and that should leave a perfect semi final lineup of lefties! Such a deft flick from big Niall
McAteer > Long, just because it was the better goal.
And none of the players are actually left footed?Quote:
Originally Posted by EAFC_rdfl
Funny - I think it should have gone out in the last 32 alright (much and all as I've said here I love the goal for its simplicity). Had it done so, this quarter-final would probably have been the two goals from that 2-2 Holland game paired against each other. That would have been a tough choice!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
McAteer, one of my absolute favourites. Great build up and a great strike. Central mid carrying the ball forward, playing it off to an advancing full back, a delicate scoopy pass into a forward, who flicks it to his strike partner and it's layed on perfectly for the winger cutting in. It's a lovely example of effective possession and attacking play to open up space for a chance. The two front players staying close and pulling to the one side is what opens the big space in the middle of the defence to create the shooting opportunity. If Keane hadn't been body checked, there was probably going to be an alternative option to slide a through ball into his path behind the defence.
Shane Long for me, hot on the heels after whupping Robbie's goal from the same game in an earlier round.
Shane held his nerve, exercised a Uri Geller like mind control over the flight of the ball, one touch then hit the perfect shot past Neuer.
Favoured more for that he avoided about 10 pitfalls to land into ignomy
McAteer - we carved them apart better than a turkey at Christmas.
mcateer, although think the keane goal in the same game is a better team goal
No contest there - 11-1 for McAteer, and we have our last four.
Ronnie Whelan N v USSR 1988
Alan McLoughlin A v Northern Ireland 1993
Jason McAteer A v Holland 2000
Aiden McGeady A v Georgia 2014
Not only four lefties, but not a single home goal left either.
The semis will start on Monday, with the final next Thursday. In the meantime, the question is - are the last four correct? I think McLoughlin v the North is the only real outlier; I think I'd have voted against it in each of the knock-outs tbh.
McLoughlin lucky to be there. I think if you asked most Irish fans to name their top 5 Irish goals, he wouldn’t be near there.
Sheedy and Houghton would feature heavily.
Four goals from four different decades as well, so I guess we now know what our best goal in each decade was...although I would personally still probably go for Kennedy v Yugoslavia as our best goal of the 1990s.
Agree!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
OK - an hour or so later than planned, but time to start the business end of things. Semis today and tomorrow, 3rd/4th place play-off on Weds, and the final on Thurs. Same rules as before.
First up, the outsider v the favourite. Any chance of an of-the-era Ireland-like upset? The first goal is Alan McLoughlin A v Northern Ireland, 1993
Record to date -
Group - Winner Group H ahead of Kevin Doyle H v Andorra 2010, Robbie Keane H v Denmark, 2002, James McClean H v Uruguay, 2017, Roy Keane H v Hungary, 1993 and Gary Waddock H v Holland, 1983
Last 32 - won 9-4 v Liam Brady H v France, 1977
Last 16 - won 7-6 v Jason McAteer H v Holland, 2001
Last 8 - won 9-4 v Glenn Whelan H v Italy, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9Bt18Rvv4&t=1m30s
Time is 1:30; time-stamped link is here.[/QUOTE]
And also up today, it's Ronnie Whelan N v USSR, 1988
Group - Winner Group C ahead of James McClean A v Wales 2017, Kevin Sheedy N v England 1990, Keith Andrews A v Italy 2011, Robbie Keane N v Saudi Arabia 2002, and Kevin O'Callaghan H v Malta 1983.
Last 32 - won 12-0 v Kevin Doyle H v Andorra 2010
Last 16 - won 9-2 v Matt Holland N v Cameroon 2002
Last 8 - won 9-2 v Matt Holland A v Portugal 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3l5zUw8vGM[/QUOTE]
Just so it's not a whitewash, I'm going for McLoughlin again. I love that goal in a way I just can't love Whelan's as much.
Has to be Whelan. As I think I posted in one of the earlier rounds McLoughlin's wasn't even the best goal in that game.
Whelan, it's a goal few Irish players could attempt, never mind score
As much as I love McLoughlin's goal, it has to be Whelan. It's proper footballing genius.
Still slightly prefer McLoughlin's myself.
Whelan!
Ronnie for me. I could watch that on a endless loop and be very, very happy.
Ronnie Whelan for me, it was that kind of goal that had all of Europe standing up and cheering.
It was a lovely shot from McLoughlin after he was given so much time by a distracted/tiring defence he could have written his name on the ball.
I love the McLoughlin goal and what it meant, but I'll go for Whelan here.
McLaughlin, going for the underdog here
whelan for me
So the favourite marches on - Ronnie Whelan into the final on a scoreline of 8-3. Alan McLoughlin has the consolation of the third-fourth place play-off to come.
The second semi is maybe a harder tie to predict. First up is Aiden McGeady A v Georgia 2014
Group - winner Group B ahead of Robbie Keane A v Holland 2004, Steve Staunton H v USSR 1990, Ray Houghton N v England 1988, Andy Townsend H v Northern Ireland 1993, and Robbie Keane N v Nigeria 2009
Last 32 - won 11-0 v Matt Holland A v Estonia 2001
Last 16 - won 11-0 v Andy Reid H v Cyprus 2005
Last 8 - won 9-3 v Kevin Doyle A v Slovakia 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHjf0nWN0_0
And it's up against Jason McAteer A v Holland 2000
Group - Winner Group J ahead of Liam Lawrence H v South Africa 2009, Michael Robinson H v Holland 1982, Gary Breen N v Saudi Arabia 2002, and Niall Quinn A v Macedonia 1999
Last 32 - won 7-3 v Mark Kennedy H v Yugoslavia 1999
Last 16 - won 10-1 v Robbie Keane H v Israel 2005
Last 8 - won 11-1 v Shane Long H v Germany 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVV-f9LoSLw&t=2m28s
Time is 2:28; time-stamped link is here.
McGeady. The way he dealt with the pass, the spin, the ridiculous touch to take it out of his feet and the timing. De Boer's contribution takes a good bit way from McAteer's for me.
Tough one. The fact that McAteer's was against a Dutch team that had demolished Yugoslavia only a few months earlier at Euro 2000, and was in Amstrerdam Arena should count for a lot, but for sheer technique and raw brilliance I think McGeady's is better. It's a shame it was "only" Georgia away, albeit a last minute winner. Both were televisually beautiful (though I saw McAteer's live). But I'll go with McGeady. Just technically brilliant.
McAteer for me. McGeady's is a lovely individual piece of skill but McAteer's combines a couple of nice pieces of skill, a decent build up and a great finish.
McGeady's finish is better, possible one of the best ever, but the build up to McAteer's goal is far better, and against much more difficult opposition.
I'm going with McGeady, just. Like Whelan's goal, it's a finish few Irish players could attempt, let alone score from.
McAteer edges it for me, based on the strength of the opposition and the larger distance on the finish.
I would say McAteer based on build up, quality of team and the finish .
The choice is McGeady - just perfect.
For McAteer at this level - minor reductive points for the lackadaisical Dutch defence. Only one back pass not two in the build up, therefore an over hype element, a sporting myth that Ireland managed to put two back passes together in the same move.
Dammit geysir I've spent the last 20 years happily believing that there was a double back heel in the build up to McAteer's goal but, yes, you can clearly see in the last replay that the touch to McAteer came from a Dutch defender.
No such issue with McGeady's goal, it was technically brilliant and entirely intentional. So McGeady it is.
Back Heels Surely ! !Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir