Ker-ringe!
Embarrassing own goal alert!
Clear it, clear it!… d’oh!
Everyone’s been there – watching one floating in, planning in your head to hoof it into Row Z, this should be easy enough. Only, rather than hoofing it as planned, at the very last second you dink it quite exquisitely into your own net.
Triple cringe!
Still, on the plus side, at least you’re not playing an important Champions League qualifier. Isn’t that right, Jan Lecjaks of Anderlecht?
Aug
19
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Bokolis // August 19, 2010 at 5:15 pm
This is why Bokolis tells my midfielders to either stand next to a man or stand outside the box and wait for the breakout pass; they come in and take unnecessary risks with the ball, as if you get points for spectacular clearances. If Lecjaks were any good, he’d have juggled the ball before clearing it. A professional footballer should never be panic-hoofing, let alone while storming his goal.
It didn’t help that the back, while he was standing there ball-watching, seeing two men attack the ball, he preferred to mark the six-yard line instead of the striker. Had he done this, Lecjaks, even while taking a poor angle, could have easily- ala Andy Cole- flashed wide from 7 yards because the back wouldn’t have been standing directly in Lecjaks’ line.
That’s what Alan Shearer said anyway.
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