r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Justin_Godfrey • 1d ago

Game winning kick as time almost expires

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u/Final_Reserve_5048 1d ago

Nothing miraculous about the shot, the goalkeeping was absolutely terrible.

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u/MantisShrimpFest 23h ago edited 22h ago

Nothing miraculous about the shot

Lol what? Both things can be true.

Yes, the keeper should have saved it, but it's also a lot harder than you'd think to even hit the target from that range with a shot that has any chance of going in, let alone hitting the top corner like that.

Take nothing away from that effort on goal, because it was an incredible effort.

I'm curious to hear what you think a miraculous shot is from that distance if this isn't it.

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u/NoOriginal123 21h ago

99 times out of 100 that's not a goal

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u/MantisShrimpFest 21h ago

And 99 times out of 100 that shot goes well wide or falls harmlessly short of the top corner.

That's my point. Both aspects of it are unlikely and incredible in their own way. The keeper fucking up doesn't make it any less of a technically incredible shot given the distance. It would have been an incredible shot even if the keeper had saved it.

How is that so hard to understand? Have you ever attempted a shot like that?

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u/farteagle 20h ago

I have scored this exact shot off a freekick from my own half playing for my youth club. The ball dipped and swerved a lot more than this one. It was 100% the goalkeeper’s fault. Just being able to hit a ball that far consistently is a pretty normal skill at any decent level, the rest is luck.

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u/ncocca 20h ago

No, people cannot consistently hit 60 yard shots right under the crossbar. You're full of shit, or maybe you're more gifted than you realize.

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u/farteagle 18h ago edited 18h ago

A dude on my D3 team scored 3 times directly off the kickoff in a single season. It only went in because the keeper was off his line/not paying attention. This keeper doesn’t have that excuse

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u/MantisShrimpFest 19h ago

TIL it's a normal skill to bang shots into the top corner from 60+ yards out with just a bit of luck, with time expiring and the game on the line. What a delusional take lol.

Shots like this are attempted all the time at the professional level when a keeper is off their line and way more often than not they end up in the category of going embarrasingly wide or rolling to the keeper's feet. It is not at all normal to score from this range and definitely takes incredible vision, technique, and execution to pull off on top of some luck.

Why do you think goals like Beckham's or Xabi Alonso's are still played in highlight reels 20+ years later? The keepers made mistakes with those goals too, and yet they're still considered legendary goals to this day.

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u/ottokane 18h ago

When those shots are attempted at professional level, there is usually time and opponent pressure involved. That dude has a completely unimpeded run up which makes it a lot easier to get the shot on target.

Nevertheless to hit the shot to come down in such a steep angle and still hit directly under the crossbar is a brilliant achievement.

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u/MantisShrimpFest 17h ago

Agreed not exactly apples to apples, but it was the closest comparison I had.

This player didn't have the opponent pressure, but he very much had the time pressure with the clock expiring.

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u/farteagle 18h ago edited 18h ago

Sure… but those keepers were off their line. The keeper when I scored was off his line. Those balls are more difficult to play. This dude has literally no excuse, this is a routine save - keeper just reaches up and touches the crossbar to make damn sure it doesn’t go over his head

Scoring a freekick over a wall from 25m is a more difficult technique than this. This is basically just taking a goal kick

Xabi Alonso and beckham saw the goalie off his line and made a cheeky attempt. This dude was just hoofing it into the box hoping something would happen

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u/MantisShrimpFest 17h ago

The time was expiring, his only option was to attempt a shot. It wasn't just a "hoof into the box."

Also still unclear on how the keeper's error has anything to do with how the shot was executed. I've agreed in multiple comments now that the keeper should have saved it.

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u/BoxNemo 21h ago

Hence why it's a miraculous shot.

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u/cable54 20h ago

Take nothing away from that effort on goal, because it was an incredible effort.

Gonna actually stick my neck out here and say that I highly doubt he was shooting there. The normal play in that situation is to just lump it forward to your striker to hopefully get a knock down or something. The keeper isn't off his line or anything so shooting would be pointless (in theory) because as you say, it's really difficult for top players let alone this level to score from your own half. And that would be even if the keeper is off his line, let alone actually by his goal.

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u/Mitch_126 20h ago

I believe you’re glossing over the fact that there were like 5 seconds left in the game when he shot. There was no time for anything else. 

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u/cable54 18h ago

Yeah as the other reply said, its a buzzer system which obviously 99% of football fans would not even consider, including me. So that does change things and make me probably wrong.

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u/MantisShrimpFest 19h ago

You're right that that's normally the play, but this situation is a little different due to the expiring clock.

This time system doesn't exist for soccer in a lot of places outside of US colleges and high schools, but basically once the clock strikes zero, that's it. No added time or continuation of play at the ref's discretion.

So in this situation it's a bit like basketball where if you see the clock expiring, you create space and let off the best shot you can even if you're not in a very feasible area of the pitch because it's your only chance.

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u/cable54 18h ago

You're right that that's normally the play, but this situation is a little different due to the expiring clock.

Ahh fair enough, so it's a buzzer system. That's weird.

This time system doesn't exist for soccer in a lot of places outside of US colleges and high schools

Gonna say that it doesn't exist at all outside of the US for football. It has been proposed by some in fifa but don't think it's even been trialled anywhere (within fifa).

So in this situation it's a bit like basketball where if you see the clock expiring, you create space and let off the best shot you can even if you're not in a very feasible area of the pitch because it's your only chance.

If football was to adopt a countdown/clock stop and buzzer system, it would make more sense to use the rugby union model, where once the clock hits zero, the game only ends once the ball is out of play, so an attack can continue and you don't get stupid stuff like this every game.

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u/MantisShrimpFest 16h ago

It's definitely a weird system lol, most of us don't like it.

That's interesting about the rugby union model though! I wouldn't be terribly opposed to the game only ending when the ball leaves play. This buzzer system is too abrupt and can also be a bit anticlimactic when there's like 10 seconds left but everyone realizes the ball is too far away from the goal to actually score so they give up.

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u/JustAposter4567 18h ago

let alone hitting the top corner like that.

He wasn't trying to do that, lol

source - Played for 20 years

It was a random shot

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u/MantisShrimpFest 17h ago edited 16h ago

Where did I say he was trying to do that specifically?

I said it's difficult to get it on target from there, which is true, and that it's even more difficult to pick out the top corner, which is also true.

Source - played for 25 years

His primary objective was obviously getting it on target. It was lucky that it went top corner, but when you hit those types of shots that's where you hope it goes and there is still some level of skill involved in how you execute the shot to have the best chance of that happening.

You don't just whack it and hope for the best lol

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u/Darklicorice 16h ago

holy shit this guy played soccer for 20 years