Favourite Arsenal goal in the Wenger era

[Bumble]

A nice positive thread. There has been so many to choose from. A few of my favs are the bergkamp goal v Newcastle, Henry's lob over bartez and vieira against the spuds which sums up that team perfectly from defending to scoring in tem seconds.

[Munchies]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGdvzDdxFrw

[Heisenberg]

Vieira against Spurs.

Love team goals in general, but that one in particular was a free flowing counter from defence to attack. Against Spurs at their place too, winning the league that afternoon. What a goal, what a team!

[Munchies]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv2mxzmVvdg

[GP]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELbLywum6ug

[Niall_Quinn]

"A player who struggled in his first season in this league and is now dominating it..."

Too many to choose from but this springs to mind.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rszBQM02Tj0

[Mr. Lahey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELbLywum6ug

came here to post this - my favorite arsenal goal ever.

[Niall_Quinn]

An incredible goal, but sad in a way as he was never the same player after that filthy ape of a non-footballing not that type of brutal thug incident. But what a goal.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT-aL--07TA

[I am invisible]

Bergkamp vs Newcastle for me - I've never seen anyone score a goal like that before and I doubt I ever will again. All the flowing moves, mazy runs, long-range drives, volleys, lobs, etc are great, but you see a lot of them over the years - that one was almost unique...

[Globalgunner]

I love the Overmars goal against United. That goal was the one that kicked off the Wenger era. Showed what we were all about. Lightning quick on the counter and utterly ruthless with it.

[Dein-machine]

Too many to choose from but this springs to mind.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rszBQM02Tj0

This one for me - not the best quality wise but it summed up the way we were playing when your two centre backs can link to score like that. Good finish from TA though.

[AFC Leveller]

Henry Vs Spurs in the 05-06 season where we were losing 1-0. Extremly important goal in terms of 4th place.

My Favourite however is Viera against Spurs 03/04.

[Özim]

This one for me - not the best quality wise but it summed up the way we were playing when your two centre backs can link to score like that. Good finish from TA though.

I loved that goal, such happy days!

[LDG]

I was in tears when that one went in from big Tone.

Boy did I celebrate that day :beer:

[Özim]

The Henry goal against Man U


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyAYSm4Ud8o

Also the Bergkamp hattrick goal against Leicester City.

[Marc Overmars]

Far too many to pick from.

Wiltord vs United, Ljungberg and Parlour in the cup final, countless Henry and Bergkamp goals, Adams vs Everton...We've really been spoiled rotten.

[LDG]

I remember those couple of Freddie Ljungberg goals v West Ham and Bolton, where we were on the title run in, and we needed to win, and he made the difference.

They weren't the best of goals, but certainly some of the biggest in terms of pure relief.

Not sure what my favourite is.

I think it would have to be:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RrK-ifLCZc

[Power n Glory]

Bergkamp vs Newcastle for me - I've never seen anyone score a goal like that before and I doubt I ever will again. All the flowing moves, mazy runs, long-range drives, volleys, lobs, etc are great, but you see a lot of them over the years - that one was almost unique...

:gp:

Sublime goal. In that same season I think he did an outrageous chip goal and that beauty of an assist to Ljunberg against Juve.

[Letters]

I remember those couple of Freddie Ljungberg goals v West Ham and Bolton, where we were on the title run in, and we needed to win, and he made the difference.
Yeah. I remember that. Can't remember the goal but I remember the sense of relief. One of those game in a title run in you just have to win and it's scrappy and then you get the goal and it's all

:dance:

and

:yippee:

[LDG]

:gp:

Sublime goal. In that same season I think he did an outrageous chip goal and that beauty of an assist to Ljunberg against Juve.

Yeah, for sheer quality, class and other-worldliness, I'd have to agree.

For what it meant to me, though, I'd say Overmars, because it was the time I knew we were on the way to finally winning the league....magic moment.

[selassie]

Too many to choose from but this springs to mind.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rszBQM02Tj0

This, loved that goal, was really fitting.

[Munchies]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3e8IB4NK8

I remember this game well, was watching it with one of my cousins who's a huge United fan.

Ryan Giggs :pal:

Edu :bow:

Fergie and Beckham after the game :haha:

[Bumble]

Bergkamp vs Newcastle for me - I've never seen anyone score a goal like that before and I doubt I ever will again. All the flowing moves, mazy runs, long-range drives, volleys, lobs, etc are great, but you see a lot of them over the years - that one was almost unique...

that is what i was thinking, you see counter attacking goals, goals from long range etc but you dont see a guy flick the ball round the defender and spin the other way to totally bamboozle everyone. bergkamp was different gravy.

[Bumble]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3e8IB4NK8

I remember this game well, was watching it with one of my cousins who's a huge United fan.

Ryan Giggs :pal:

Edu :bow:

Fergie and Beckham after the game :haha:

i was getting sky installed that day and had to keep running between rooms to watch the football and ensure the sky guy was doing the job properly.

[Niall_Quinn]

All the goals and all our play and players in the 7-0 demolition job on Everton (which we are repeating this weekend by the way).

You can take your Barcelonas and Madrids and your Messis and Ronaldos and roll them into whatever configuration you want but nobody in the modern game played such exhilarating and jump out of your seats in astonishment football as we did - bar the Brazilians when Brazilian football was Brazilian football. Football has changed much for the worse. Watching the CL this week you see all the big names and big budgets, but who actually enjoyed watching it? Certainly some good goals but the shit you have to endure in between and on top of that the rolling and the diving and the cheating. We used to laugh at Uruguay, now this is normal and shits like Rooney are indignant when you mention it. You have to hand it to Wenger, he has a vision of the way football should be and he's one of the very few who has managed to realise that vision on the pitch. Everything is drowned in cynicism and cash now, but we all got to see football how it can be and with the added bonus of it being played by our team in our shirts. It was never about the trophies, it was always about watching football like that, played the way it was meant to be.

Just look at the roll call of masters in this video. We sometimes forget just how amazing these guys were in our rush to applaud the few scraps we see by comparison today.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PboL6hSIb9M

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

WILTOOOOOOOOORD

[LDG]

Joy to watch that, NQ. Ta.

Control, speed of though, speed of body and pure fuckin power.

Wenger. Please watch this again.

[Heisenberg]

Oh goodness, the FA Cup win at OT was a classic. Wiltord's goal was lovely, but the Giggs miss is just such a classic.

Not even just that it went over, but that the defending was such a farce: Keown slips, Seaman goes to ground and doesn't get there, Campbell falls over... and still over the bar :haha:

[Letters]

Joy to watch that, NQ. Ta.

Control, speed of though, speed of body and pure fuckin power.

Wenger. Please watch this again.
Bergkamp's ball for the first goal... :wacko:

Players like that don't come along very often, and to have him and Henry in the same team :blink:

[GP]

Bergkamp's ball for the first goal... :wacko:

Players like that don't come along very often, and to have him and Henry in the same team :blink:

Bergkamp's vision was unmatched. I've never seen anything like it.

[Marc Overmars]

Cole vs Villa. :wacko:

Another perfect Bergkamp assist.

[Letters]

Bergkamp's vision was unmatched. I've never seen anything like it.

Bergkamp > Ozil, clearly, but Ozil has the ability to play similar balls. Next season if we have a player who will make the right runs he could be very effective.

[LDG]

Bergkamp's vision was unmatched. I've never seen anything like it.

:gp:

Just from that clip alone, you can tell he was pulling most of the strings.

The movement all over the place, and the way it was all orchestrated is just something else.

How that team never became European Champions, I'll never know.

[Munchies]

^ Nearly did in 04. Don't remind me of that cunt Bridge's goal, I blocked it out for ages. :(

Just saw that whole 7-0 vid...

Bergkamp :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

[Power n Glory]

Yeah, for sheer quality, class and other-worldliness, I'd have to agree.

For what it meant to me, though, I'd say Overmars, because it was the time I knew we were on the way to finally winning the league....magic moment.

That was a magic moment. That year was just tremendous! Anelka's debut season, Overmars and Bergkamp, the FA Cup....I miss those days.

[Ernesto]

Oh goodness, the FA Cup win at OT was a classic. Wiltord's goal was lovely, but the Giggs miss is just such a classic.

Not even just that it went over, but that the defending was such a farce: Keown slips, Seaman goes to ground and doesn't get there, Campbell falls over... and still over the bar :haha:

I've been told that in the build-up to that second wiltord goal in the cup game, every outfield Arsenal player got a touchon the ball (with the exception of Jeffers, whose clever running off the ball was enough to drag the defence away and make space for Wiltord's shot)

[IBK]

:gp:

Sublime goal. In that same season I think he did an outrageous chip goal and that beauty of an assist to Ljunberg against Juve.

This. Nothing. Better. Ever.

[IBK]

This. Nothing. Better. Ever.

But also - remember this one?


A warrior with a cool head and a stare that could melt the ice caps, his most glorious moment of that Double Winning season came in a tense and much fabled North London derby that April. With Arsenal closing in on the title and the scores locked at 1-1 in the final minute, Henry was fouled in the area and won a penalty. With regular taker Henry off the pitch receiving treatment, Lauren gamely stepped up to the pressure cooker. It was truly one of those slow motion moments; I remember peering on from the Clock End, all of us gripping each other, unable to stomach the unbearable tension. A Hollywood Director could have carte blanche with a moment like this, a stadium full of people collectively inhaling; the sound of silence punctuated only by 38,000 hearts thumping in chests as Lauren mops his brow and coolly rolls the ball down the middle of the goal at about 1mph. There is a mutual heart skipping as the ball brushes the studs of keeper Kasey Keller, but nevertheless has just enough puff to roll over the goal line unperturbed. It really was one of the most heart rendering and iconic moments of that season. As well as winning an F.A. Cup and Premiership Winners medal that year, Lauren won the 2002 African Nations Cup with Cameroon, once again Lauren successfully despatched in the Final shoot out with Senegal. The player continually proved himself to be a man for the big occasion. He would prove his unswerving commitment to his club shortly afterwards, announcing his retirement from international football that year at the age of 26, citing his focus on club matters as his reason. Personally, I`ve never forgotten that, even if most people have.


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