HandsomeHead
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Saeed Owairan for Saudi Arabia against Belgium in USA 94. Even better than Maradona’s against England. Best ever. End thread.
It’s not though, is it? It’s a bit like saying the guy down your park scored the best goal ever that time he beat everyone on the pitch, twice, before putting the ball in between the jumpers.
Maradona was the best player in the world in 1986 so all eyes were on him. The expectation on him to deliver, especially after the disappointment of four years earlier was huge, but he didn’t disappoint.
It was the quarter finals of the World Cup against another former winner, the player England simply had to stop if they were to stand any chance of progressing. And they couldn’t. He picked the ball up in his own half and ran past six of them, Shilton included.
It’s the best individual goal I’ve ever seen and given the magnitude of the occasion and who delivered it, I’m not sure it will ever be beaten.