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Player Micky van de Ven
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Vicario owes him one big time
He owed Vicario for giving him the opportunity to write himself into Spurs legend folklore
Vicario fumble was awful , I didn’t realize until I saw it this morning
Anyways we won
Just gets better every time I watch it.
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/0ik3n18XtUY?si=dzdi2BKCsjXKm2tV
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/0ik3n18XtUY?si=dzdi2BKCsjXKm2tV
First major final and you do that?
CBs like this don’t grow on trees.
You don't need to say things like "trouble is..." for a while now. That only matters when you're not winning. When you're winning, winning is all that matters.
Although if Micky went I'd cry more than I did during Goose's death in Top Gun
The header seemed to go in slow motion…………how he got that I will never know
Still be watching that in 20;years, obviously hoping I’m still alive
Still be watching that in 20;years, obviously hoping I’m still alive
Iconic moment in European final history.
It gets more remarkable with each viewing/angle.
It defies logic. Supreme athleticism to reach the ball let alone the tekkers to manage to clear it away from the goal.
It will be my abiding memory of the actual match.
Micky van de Ven: “I thought, ‘how am I going to do this?’” | Tottenham Hotspur
European glory is built on moments - Dyson’s double in 1963, Big Chiv’s rocket in 1972, Parky’s penalty save in 1984 - add Brennan Johnson’s goal and Micky van de Ven’s spectacular clearance off the line to that list.
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Micky van de Ven: “I thought, ‘how am I going to do this?’
European glory is built on moments - Dyson’s double in 1963, Big Chiv’s rocket in 1972, Parky’s penalty save in 1984 - now we can add Brennan Johnson’s goal and Micky van de Ven’s spectacular clearance off the line in Bilbao to that list.
It was a moment of pure instinct, a breathtaking display of agility - spotting that the danger from a cross hadn’t been cleared, and with Guglielmo Vicario struggling after being bumped in mid-air by Dominic Solanke, Micky naturally headed back to the goal line as Rasmus Hojlund looped a header towards the empty net. The Dutch defender had a millisecond to make up his mind - and somehow got enough airtime to hook the ball away.
Here's his version of events. “In the game, I saw the ball coming, Vic was there, I don’t know what happened, I saw the ball coming back and went to the goal line... the ball went high up in the air, and I thought, ‘how am I going to do this?’. I thought, ‘I need to try’, and I don’t know how, but...
“I’m really proud, really happy for this team. What can I say? Everyone is talking about the clearance, but everyone is talking about us. Everyone wanted this trophy, and we did it.”
Has anyone got a video of his reaction at he final whistle? He runs over to Romero shortly after, but haven't seen his initial reaction