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Mexes scores a better goal than Zlatan.

2.4K views 53 replies 32 participants last post by  Kopite  
#1 ·
It was.
 
#7 ·
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#16 ·
Lol Galliani, can he just ****ing relax and enjoy it instead of bitch about it?
 
#19 ·
Ofcourse they would have, but its still no need to bitch about it. And bringing up Ibra's goal and how it was in a friendly hehe, couldnt just say Mexes scored an awesome goal, its just not his nature.
 
#28 ·
Mexes goal is more constructed beautiful self set up and a cool acrobatic lob, plus has a goalie on the net, better executed goal than Ibra for sure but Ibra's goal has that boom first go element though, a punishment to Joe Hart and to the whole English media, a suprise wow goal. Mexes goal was better but Ibra's was more spectacular and is more memorbale.
 
#30 ·
Filipe may be a hateful hoe, but there's a point there. A lot of us give credit for things outside the aesthetics, difficulty, technique employed, etc. in scoring a goal. For example, the occasion. If it's done at a World Cup Final, it makes it better.

Like Rob said, people would be hailing it as the best goal if it was Messi or Ronaldo. But maybe that's not just because of bias but because people assume that Ronaldo and Messi are proven goal scorers with great technique and that it wasn't a shot in the dark since those players knew exactly what they were doing.

In other words, the players who use their skill and know-how, instead of what can be described as blind luck, deserve more props. I think there's some ground there for how we judge players.

Put another way, if a player scores directly from a corner kick, it seems we give Maradona more credit (since he's a player who can...and has done) instead of, say, Traore scoring directly from a corner (we'd call it blind luck if it happened).