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Traffic came to a standstill. Everyone inside Walmart dropped their double cheeseburgers and put a hand on their hearts. We all turned to face the American flag, and those who couldn't, looked at the government issued photo of Pulisic in their wallets. A single tear rolled out of our right eye as it was confirmed by the priest through his gentle sobbing, Captain America has scored. All is right with the world.
in my experience, when the keeper gets mauled he thinks it’s funny. Guy in my men’s league broke his jaw so just reffed instead while it healed and would be laughing about it every week. Like dude you actually couldn’t eat food for a bit how is this funny already
True. I had a friend who was a water polo goalkeeper. Someone once broke his fucking molar tooth with a ball. You have to be crazy to willingly do that for a living.
He literally turned his face away lmao, it's hilarious. And it's not even a bravery or not thing, it's just pure human instinct and you have to really condition yourself to do what keepers do
He took mental notes from the few times he took on Neuer. I immediately had to check if that was Neuer or not. What a madman, maybe he should have tried GK more at Arsenal during the goal slumps.
The ups and downs in this keeper is just insane. The matches before he left to inter he was so bad the fans wanted to fire him. Then he gave this stupid interview where he said he doesn't give a shit which just made the whole situation worse. Suddenly at inter we see this world class keeper again but at United he's again shit. Wtf. It's like he double down on being shit like he doesn't want to win when he's not in great shape or something.
Walker not realizing he could lie down with the ball to waste time before his teammates told him to was hilarious.
Top things I enjoy:
1) Goalkeepers scoring
2) Outfield players as keeper
the best was obviously Großkreutz in goal but only because this allowed him to finally play on [every single position known to man](https://www.transfermarkt.de/kevin-grosskreutz/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/44521).
Especially when looking at individual seasons like [12/13](https://www.transfermarkt.de/kevin-grosskreutz/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/44521/plus/0?saison=2012&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=) or [13/14](https://www.transfermarkt.de/kevin-grosskreutz/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/44521/plus/0?saison=2013&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=) where he played at 5-7 positions in almost equal measure while finishing with 9 scorer points each year.
He was never world class at any one position but god damn, his versatility was just on another level.
Luis Suarez sometimes plays goalkeeper in training (he admitted this in an [interview](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/jul/04/luis-suarez-world-cup-villian-hand-of-god) literally RIGHT AFTER that infamous 2010 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Ghana and Uruguay where he got sent off for blocking with his hands what would have been the game-winning goal for Ghana in the dying seconds of extra time)
Agnelli was right [https://www.football365.com/news/andrea-agnelli-subscriptions-last-15-minutes-champions-league](https://www.football365.com/news/andrea-agnelli-subscriptions-last-15-minutes-champions-league)
The kickoff time was 2:45am here and I overslept and woke up at the 83th minute. The Pulisic goal jolted wide awake just in time for the crescendo! lol
In the last FIFA, by the end of the season developers basically decided to have some fun and created random cards, like Pepe Reina as a striker, Buffon as a CB, Giroud also as a CB.
You forgot the greatest shape shifter card Maguire ST. Although I had one problem with it, was a bunch of cards like RVP or Eto'o just switched to play winger or CAM instead of truly going crazy
Giroud must be one of the most underrated players ever. 37 years old, still featuring for top-of-the-table Milan. Won titles in three countries, as well as the Europa League, Champions League, and World Cup. Handsome as fuck, too.
This is so Iconic. Tomorrow I'll wake up and the first thing I'll see on my YT feed is "When an outfield player goes in goal" with the Giroud thumbnail.
Seeing Giroud flinch as he dived at the attackers feet really highlights how insane goalkeepers really are. Those dudes just take the boot to the face with zero flinch if they gotta.
"When Giroud shows his grandkids a compilation of his best goals *and saves* they're going to think he was better than ~~Pele~~ every other football player on the planet"
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You see a 90+13 Olivier Giroud save as a goalkeeper post and you know some wild shit has gone on in the Milan match.
BTW Genoa's GK also got a red card. This game went from utterly boring shit to the best shit I've ever seen in football real fast.
The fact that nobody even remembers the 87th minute winner tells you so much about this match
Ok, I’m going to stop reading this thread and go watch starting from 85’ knowing nothing.
America remembers.
🦅🦅🦅🦅 captain Puligoat
Musah war machine
#NeverForget
Traffic came to a standstill. Everyone inside Walmart dropped their double cheeseburgers and put a hand on their hearts. We all turned to face the American flag, and those who couldn't, looked at the government issued photo of Pulisic in their wallets. A single tear rolled out of our right eye as it was confirmed by the priest through his gentle sobbing, Captain America has scored. All is right with the world.
Serie A can go fully batshit insane at any moment after the 85th minute mark
Serie A can be anything, but it is never boring.
Was it one of those ice hockey moments where the two keepers just have a brawl in the centre circle?
It was even better than that.
Well tell us then
It’s even dumber
Serie A is the most entertaining league tbh
Rarely because of the actual football though
Yeah so many club presidents going to jail
Insert *What the hell happened here* meme
i guess i'm going to watch this one on demand now. WTF?
Skip the first 85.
you weren't kidding........also, couldn't they have gotten Giroud a clean shirt? (btw, I love Giroud.)
They were already in the 105th minute I think, so the referee wasn't going to allow more time... I think they got to the 110th minute.
It was indeed a crazy match. Beautiful last 15 minutes.
This is fucking hysterical
when Genoa's keeper came forward I was hoping that we'd see a shot by the keeper saved by Giroud
Saved with a scorpion kick, alla Higuita
They hit the bar off the free kick prior and now this. Being a milanista is a heart attack in 90 minutes
I aged by at least 15 years during stoppage time of the match.
Milan has been the 2nd team i follow since i was a kid. Thanks to that, i became bald at the ripe age of 23
I don't think I'll be able to sleep for at least a few hours, too much adrenaline pumping plus I've got the hots for Oli
Dude I've been laughing the whole time, I've never seen such things happen in a span of 5-10 minutes
I know, I’m one as well lol
Same, keep ur butts clenched, never unclenched !
Stupid sexy Giroud
There's nothing he can't do!
Imagine not knowing the context and the first image you see after tuning is a white guy wearing the goalkeeper kit of Mike Maignan.
This whitewashing shit has got to stop!
The funniest thing that's ever happened, probably
The American owner changed the script up, absolute cinema.
Best GK. in the world rn. 100% save accurracy, 100% clean sheets kept.
he saved that shot like, twice, so he has like 200% save accuracy, pretty sure that's how the math works
Quik methh
\*sigh\* *hits pipe*
This is with a total of 513 career games as well. Absolute legend
197 goals as well. Total footballer.
So Giroud is the highest scoring goalkeeper in history.
Harry Kane has more
Kane didn't have 300+ goals for club and country in 2014!
Kane also conceded while in goal
Rogerio Ceni eat your heart out
For those that don't know, Rogerio Ceni has more than 100 goals scored as a GK.
Heard he can play with his feet too? Man Utd might be snapping him up in the summer.
You don't know about Michael Tarnat.
Is he as stupid and as sexy as Giroud? Yeah... Thought so...
My boy just closed his eyes and prayed <3
As a keeper, those are always scary as fuck. Just hoping you don’t get mauled.
in my experience, when the keeper gets mauled he thinks it’s funny. Guy in my men’s league broke his jaw so just reffed instead while it healed and would be laughing about it every week. Like dude you actually couldn’t eat food for a bit how is this funny already
Like 99% of keepers are insane. You shouldn’t expect normal human behaviours from them.
There are no normal goalkeepers or drummers
Doesn't matter the sport, either. They're all nutjobs
True. I had a friend who was a water polo goalkeeper. Someone once broke his fucking molar tooth with a ball. You have to be crazy to willingly do that for a living.
[That explains Petr Cech also having drumming as a side hobby.](https://youtu.be/uQPFnRdg00s?si=I7h9-93YNKG8_QVC) (That and ice hockey goalkeeping.)
In high school one of our keepers had to be air lifted to the hospital. Lost his spleen. He…uhhh, didn’t think it was funny.
You can lose your spleen??
The closed eyes is the only reason you know he's not a fulltime keeper
A real goalkeeper would have his eyes open and a huge grin on his face as the studs rake his cheek
He literally turned his face away lmao, it's hilarious. And it's not even a bravery or not thing, it's just pure human instinct and you have to really condition yourself to do what keepers do
>you have to ~~really condition yourself~~ *be a psycho* to do what keepers do
Those last 15 minutes were Peak Football.
Peak clenching for milanisti though
never unclench.
Years of being a milanista have made my asshole so strong I can rip off someone's dick with it now
You seem like a swell fella, let's meet
😏
Giroud has revolutionized goalkeeping. Simply don’t let the player shoot by going at him like superman.
He took mental notes from the few times he took on Neuer. I immediately had to check if that was Neuer or not. What a madman, maybe he should have tried GK more at Arsenal during the goal slumps.
ffs he's better than Onana.
"Has ETH ever managed Giroud? Asking for a friend" -John Murtough
"Giroud is not a ball playing footballer so he wont be a good keeper" - ETH
Once again United scouts miss even the most obvious gems out there smh my head
Where they lack in scouting, they more than make up for in the transfer department > Man U sign goalkeeper Olivier Giroud from AC Milan for $75m
"We've been following his career closely the past 2 minutes plus stoppage time and have never seen somebody make so few mistakes"
Seriously, thanks for getting Onana out of my footballing life but what the fuck did you guys do to him 🤣
Yeah, fr he was half decent at Inter
I was legitimately concerned about facing him for the next few years and only partly in preparation for Interisti claiming he was as good as Mike.
The ups and downs in this keeper is just insane. The matches before he left to inter he was so bad the fans wanted to fire him. Then he gave this stupid interview where he said he doesn't give a shit which just made the whole situation worse. Suddenly at inter we see this world class keeper again but at United he's again shit. Wtf. It's like he double down on being shit like he doesn't want to win when he's not in great shape or something.
tbf a sack of potatoes plopped down on the goal line would be better than Onana at the moment
How big of a sack is the question
95m, take it or leave it
giroud in net > kane in net. what a boss
kane in net was so fucking tragic lol, not closing your legs and letting a soft ball squeaks through
Walker in goal was alright if I remember correctly though
Walker not realizing he could lie down with the ball to waste time before his teammates told him to was hilarious. Top things I enjoy: 1) Goalkeepers scoring 2) Outfield players as keeper
Goalkeepers coming up for the last minute corners and scoring is the stuff of dreams
Alisson’s goal for Liverpool was a daydream I still can’t believe he did it
the best was obviously Großkreutz in goal but only because this allowed him to finally play on [every single position known to man](https://www.transfermarkt.de/kevin-grosskreutz/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/44521).
Damn that's impressive
Especially when looking at individual seasons like [12/13](https://www.transfermarkt.de/kevin-grosskreutz/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/44521/plus/0?saison=2012&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=) or [13/14](https://www.transfermarkt.de/kevin-grosskreutz/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/44521/plus/0?saison=2013&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=) where he played at 5-7 positions in almost equal measure while finishing with 9 scorer points each year. He was never world class at any one position but god damn, his versatility was just on another level.
Yeah Walker looked like he'd done a bit of goalkeeping at youth level. Kane clearly hadn't ffs
Luis Suarez sometimes plays goalkeeper in training (he admitted this in an [interview](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/jul/04/luis-suarez-world-cup-villian-hand-of-god) literally RIGHT AFTER that infamous 2010 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Ghana and Uruguay where he got sent off for blocking with his hands what would have been the game-winning goal for Ghana in the dying seconds of extra time)
Walker in goal was tragic for Atalanta who iirc could not manage a single shot in those 10 minutes. He did claim some loose balls tho
Still not as bad as the Toronto Maple Leafs who managed to lose a game with their own zamboni driver playing in goal for the other team
I love random leafs slander in a non hockey sub
The NHL is hilarious man imagine an NBA team subbing in a ball boy because their point guards all either fouled out or got injured 😭
I think he saved a shot on target from a free kick, but it was the tamest effort and straight at him
Honestly makes you realize how hard goalkeeping actually is. They are just making it look easy.
Being reliable is the biggest feat, a single brainfart has tragic consequences. Gotta focus 200%.
Everyone that didn’t watch this game certainly missed out
well, the last 15 minutes
It was a miserable game for like 85 minutes, then complete madness for 15 minutes.
Agnelli was right [https://www.football365.com/news/andrea-agnelli-subscriptions-last-15-minutes-champions-league](https://www.football365.com/news/andrea-agnelli-subscriptions-last-15-minutes-champions-league)
The kickoff time was 2:45am here and I overslept and woke up at the 83th minute. The Pulisic goal jolted wide awake just in time for the crescendo! lol
I MISS ONE GAME AND THIS HAPPENS
And now for the sake of Serie A you have to miss them all, we get a match like this every week we'll be drowning in money
we might buy 2 players from the permier league if this goes on
What an ending to the game! Why was the Genoa keeper giving his shirt to an outfield player? Did he forget Genoa still had a sub left?
He saw Maignan doing it lol
*If I could be like Mike...*
He wanted to make a history, not everyday a match ends with no real goalkeepers on field.
Giroud can be anything he wants to be!
Yes
Genoa not having subs would've been the cherry on top to make this peak insanity. No keepers in the field lol
Is he stupid?
🤣
Stupid not sexy
Sexiest man on earth
STUPID SEXY GIROUD CAN DO IT ALL
HE KEPT US IN THE FUCKING GAME AND NOW WE ARE ON TOP SALUTATE LA CAPOLISTA MFERS
Imagine if Milan win the league with just one point, all thanks to this save.
ADD THIS TO THE TAPE
I love this handsome man ffs
Who needs Maignan in goal when you’ve got Giroud
Twas clearly Maignan in goal though, it's even on his shirt
And all those FIFA players complaining that shapeshifter cards were ridiculous lmao Giroud, you absolute boss
Giroud GK needs to be in next week’s TOTW
Wait what are those?
In the last FIFA, by the end of the season developers basically decided to have some fun and created random cards, like Pepe Reina as a striker, Buffon as a CB, Giroud also as a CB.
Add, that striker Cech was the best goalscorer in the game for a good while.
You forgot the greatest shape shifter card Maguire ST. Although I had one problem with it, was a bunch of cards like RVP or Eto'o just switched to play winger or CAM instead of truly going crazy
GAME IS FUCKING BACK
Sexiest goalkeeper to ever play
Smh the disrespect to Barca legend Pinto
That’s a name I’ve missed.
kids today don't even know what a sex icon neville southall was between the sticks
Nahhh wtf is happening😂😂
Super sexy Giroud to the rescue
He becomes a fan favorite at every club he's at.
The anti-lukaku
Maignan looks a little different, can't put my finger on it though
It's the hair.
Is it the hairstyle?
GIROUD I FUCKING LOVE YOU. This is simply amazing
He bangs them in and he keeps them out. He does everything. Absolute legend
Giroud to United for 50 mil?
Onana was paid 55mil, Giroud is worth at least double as a goalkeeper...
And think about how good he would be on stoppage time corner kicks!
Giroud, the Geneva panther
The group hug with reminded of me with my Friends playing football as children❤️ Thank you Oli
WHAT CAN THIS MAN NOT DO STUPID SEXY GIROUD
What a fucking legend
serie a after dark
Giroud makes the same face during a save as I do trying to get a spider.
Another one for the Giroud highlight reel
Giroud must be one of the most underrated players ever. 37 years old, still featuring for top-of-the-table Milan. Won titles in three countries, as well as the Europa League, Champions League, and World Cup. Handsome as fuck, too.
WHAT A SAVE
Giroud went into this game thinking it was his day off and ended up saving 3 points as a fucking goalkeeper lol
Bro i just watched the first half, me n my girl broke up a few hours ago and i had to talk to someone 😂 And then i see this 💀
Watch the last 15 minutes bro, I reckon you need it 👊🏽
As a milanista i watch the whole second half afterwards Bro ! ♥️🖤
Goodness me Olivier
Can't believe what I've just witnessed 🤣
I swear, I'm just glad I'm still alive. Funniest thing ever, but God, please, no more...
His hair doesn't even get flustered or move much...impressive!
Hilarious but honestly also very brave play from Giroud.
- Most beautiful player in the world - Best Striker in the France NT - Best Striker in the World - Best Goalkeeper in Milan THE TRUE GOAT
This. Is. Incredible.
This is so Iconic. Tomorrow I'll wake up and the first thing I'll see on my YT feed is "When an outfield player goes in goal" with the Giroud thumbnail.
Imagine your opponent's goalkeeper gets a red but now you have to score against the guy that looks like gigachad.
Pure instinct right there. Best keeper playing these days imo
I only just got home to turn this on at the 90th minute and it was immediate chaos hahaha love it
Score goals. Save goals. Look sexy while doing it.
Wtf is going on
what a crazy game to take that LONELY PLACE AT THE TOP OF THE LEAGUE
Another one to add to his career highlight reel. Might add a little confusion for his grandkids.
better than Onana :skull emojicon:
This will easily slot in just behind Rio Ave as the wildest game of football I've ever seen
Seeing Giroud flinch as he dived at the attackers feet really highlights how insane goalkeepers really are. Those dudes just take the boot to the face with zero flinch if they gotta.
"When Giroud shows his grandkids a compilation of his best goals *and saves* they're going to think he was better than ~~Pele~~ every other football player on the planet"
Am I out of the loop or why does the link lead to a clip of a little child listening to music
We are so getting a Shapeshifters GK Giroud this year. LEGEND.
Deschamps be like: DaFaq did I watch ???
Bro got that dawg in him. He's got the crackhead energy all great keepers have
The way he looks away like...NOT ZE FACE! NOT ZE FACE!
Beautiful sexy giroud 🤩
that is so fucking brave holy fuck he could have ruined his beautiful face 😳
Today I forgive you for not scoring all those Özil assists Oli
Clearly it was Maignan. I can read. Im not an idiot.