Post by stefancrosscoe on Aug 14, 2017 8:53:51 GMT
No surprises with the winner:
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40710224
I began to follow Premier League and Man Utd as a kid back in the mid 90s, so I have not seen all the great and classic goals of that era and the clips down below are therefore in most cases taken from matches where United played and the ones that imediately comes to my mind:
(Yeah, I know the picture quality us not crystal clear in some of the videos, but I really hate the music that is featured in 99 pecent of the Youtube footbal/Premier League clips/videos, so I am sorry about the sound "quality" in some of these videos, but in the end, it is the football which matters, not the crappy music)
Nani vs Arsenal during the 2009-10 season
Back when Nani actually made some of the fans "forget" Ronaldo for a short while, but sadly he would never became the player many hoped he would become but still for a few seasons he was one of the best wingers in the league and in this game he terrorized the Arsenal defence with a fantastic display.
Thierry Henry vs Manchester United during the 2000-01 season
Poor Barthez, he must still have nightmares of the horrible blunders he made in the 2001-02 game at Highbury where Henry made him look like a complete fool, but the stunning goal that Henry scored against his fellow countryman in the season before that, was no accident, and is one of the most beautiful goals of that I have ever seen as Thierry made it look so easy.
Matt Le Tissier against Manchester United in 1996-97 season
Southampton where a bit of a pain in the butt for Alex Ferguson and his men, as I remember them being blown away 3-1 the season before, and then ending up getting humiliated 6-3 the next, where Le Tissier scored this beauty against big Schmike and this time Fergie could not blame the performance on the grey shirts at half time.
I remember United also got beaten 5-0 by Newcastle that year, but still they did end up win the league title but those losses still hurt.
Peter Schmeichel and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer goal during the 1996-97 season
Big Pete did a lot of these insansely powerful long throws which often would break up or take the opponent by surprise and started up a lethal United counter attack and this was as good as they get, where I think United is up against either Bolton or Derby but could be Middlesborough too and United ended up taking great use of a poor freekick, where Schmeichel imediately finds Solskjaer with an almost pefect assist and the rest is history, the end.
Torres against Blackburn in the 2008-09 season
I remember this day very well, of course best from what would happen later that day (United coming back from 0-2 with Macheda to score the winner to 3-2 against Aston Villa later that Saturday), but this game and goal by Torres was a brilliant warm-up for a fantastic title race where Rafa Benitez side had blown away teams such as Manchester United (twice), Real Madrid (twice) and Chelsea (twice) that season already and with a solid performance winning 4-1 against Blackburn, Torres started the day with this beauty which inspired his team to yet another great victory.
In that season Liverpool and Torres really looked like the real deal. They were fantastic to watch and I feared them more than ever before and after. But in the end, they or Rafa lost the plot and the title to Fergie and United.
Van Nistelrooy against Fulham in the 2002-03 season
I guess his powerful 1-0 goal against Arsenal at Highbury a couple of weeks later on would also be a worthy contendor as that was against a far better opponent/defence and in a much more important game, but still it was quite the surprise to watch the dutchman score this kind of a goal, as he had kind of been "put down" by some nasty critics as nothing more than a lethal poacher, but proved from time to time that he could do much more and from 2001 and up to 2006 he was an unstoppable goal machine that during the 2002-03 seasons would end up beating Thierry Henry to the top scorer thrown and win the Premier League title by scoring over 44 goals in all competitions.

