Ok i'll start:
1) Ronaldo Nazario's hat-trick at Old Trafford.
This is talked about on what seems like a weekly basis by fans, pundits and players. Yet if you watch his hat-trick back, 2 of the goals are just howlers from Barthez. Overrated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoPIUSG-vcg
2) Gerrard in Istanbul vs AC Milan.
Granted God-like status by scousers after this game in May 2005, people have decided to forget that he was atrocious in the first 45 and largely responsible for Liverpool being 3 goals down by the break; he simply couldn't cope with Milan's midfield and failed to protect Liverpool's defence. The introduction of Dietmar Hamann is actually what enabled Liverpool to get back into that game and take it to penalties. Overrated.
https://www.football365.com/news/jamie-carragher-did-hamann-liverpool-2005-champions-league-final
3) Ronaldo's Euro 2016 win.
Up until Messi achieved international trophies with Argentina, Ronaldo winning the Euros was seemingly used eternally by people siding with the Portuguese forward in the 'debate of the goats'. You'd constantly hear 'yeah but Ronaldo dragged a bang average Portugal side to victory in Euro 2016' over and over again. In reality Ronaldo wasn't even Euro 2016's top scorer, best player, or had any impact in the final; limping off the pitch in tears after 18 minutes and then proceeding to do an impression of every 'soccer mom' watching her child play football on a Sunday morning. Overrated.
https://x.com/NoloFCB/status/1605912337394716673
Over to you!
Footballing Moments That Are Overrated
posted 51 minutes ago
United’s 99 treble winners
Won the league with under 80 points
Poor Bergkamp penalty away from FA Cup elimination
We all know what happened in the CL final
It was a great achievement but by a lucky team as opposed to a truly great one.
United’s 07/08 team achieved less but were a far better team
posted 36 minutes ago
Gerrard number one and it’s not even close.
Diego Costa’s Chelsea career. Played well for about half a season twice, in their two title winning seasons, and did fack all apart from wind people up and get sent off outside of that.
posted 34 minutes ago
Gotta love this place
People saying winning a treble is overrated 😂😂😂😂😂😂
posted 27 minutes ago
Keane at the san siro in 99.
gazza at Italia 90
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 2 hours, 16 minutes ago
Everything Cheatchester City have achieved.
It's like watching Ben Johnson win the 1988 Olympic 100m final with his drug fuelled bloodshot eyes bulging out of his head.
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He was as clean as freshly fallen snow
posted 19 minutes ago
It was often the case that three man midfields killed two man midfields hence every team eventually changing to to three man midfield.
Tactical changes and changes in mentality changed the game the second half. Gerrard was phenomenal, earning MOTM and rightly so. Not sure what your opinion is based on.
Speaking to French outlet RMC Sport, as translated by Get French Football news, Cisse explained:
“I will never forget Steven Gerrard’s team-talk at half-time during the 2005 Champions League final.
[Rafa] Benitez comes into the dressing room, he does his coach speech, that we must not give up and that we need to score quickly.
“Steven gets up and asks all the coaching staff to leave the dressing room, because he wanted to be alone with just the players. All the staff left, even the physios who were giving treatment to the players.
“Stevie gets up and says that Liverpool is all he has, it is his club, all he has ever known and he does not want to be the laughing stock of the history of the Champions League.
“He says that if we respect him and love him as a captain, then we need to dust ourselves off and get back in the match.
“He scores the first goal, he gets the penalty. He has an extraordinary second half, finishing the game as a right-back. He has a crazy match – but that half-time speech will remain imprinted in my mind forever.”
posted 15 minutes ago
Didn't Gerard basically take over the team talk at half time when they were 3-0 down and galvanise the squad? The getting the early goal and winning the penalty, I think it's pretty clear he was vital in them winning that game.
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 18 seconds ago
Didn't Gerard basically take over the team talk at half time when they were 3-0 down and galvanise the squad? The getting the early goal and winning the penalty, I think it's pretty clear he was vital in them winning that game.
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That is exactly what the post previous to yours says in much detail
Putting Hamann on, Milan thinking they had won it already and Dudek's double save all as much a part as Gerrard though.
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 18 seconds ago
Didn't Gerard basically take over the team talk at half time when they were 3-0 down and galvanise the squad? The getting the early goal and winning the penalty, I think it's pretty clear he was vital in them winning that game.
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That is exactly what the post previous to yours says in much detail
Putting Hamann on, Milan thinking they had won it already and Dudek's double save all as much a part as Gerrard though.
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Yeah you don't turn around a 3-0 deficit because of one thing. There has to be multiple factors.
Also Milan missed a couple of great chances and they looked shell shocked by the time the second went in. They played their part in it too. Player for player they had a much better team, yet fell apart when the pressure was put on them. Even during penalties they looked done.
posted 3 minutes ago
His dive was vital. Spent the remainder of the match chasing shadows as Milan dominated and couldn’t put them away. By far the most overrated performance in the history of football.