This chip shot penalty style is now named after him. Panenka softly chipped the ball up the middle of the goal as goalkeeper Sepp Maier dived away. Antonin Panenka - CZECHOSLOVAKIA v Germany, 1976Īntonin Panenka scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia after the 1976 European Championship final against West Germany had gone to a shootout. You can vote on your favourite (including Schick's) at the bottom of this page. The subject of the best Euro finals goal was the subject of a recent Match of the Day Top 10 podcast, in which Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards listed their favourites. It has some stiff competition, with the likes of Marco van Basten's angled volley for the Netherlands in the 1988 final, Paul Gascoigne's solo effort against Scotland at Euro '96 and Hal Robson-Kanu's turn and finish in Wales' 2016 win over Belgium all lauded for their greatness.
The question has to be asked why he's so far out of goal, because Scotland don't use their goalkeeper as an extra defender." One of the great Euros goals?Ī masterclass in awareness and execution, Schick's goal oozed quality, but where might it rank in a list of great European Championship final goals? It's a brilliant finish by Schick, but if you are that far out as the keeper, you better be able to get back in. That's as good a goal as I've seen for a long time."įormer Scotland captain Darren Fletcher: "That's an unbelievable execution from a top-class striker."įormer Scotland international Pat Nevin: "Marshall finds himself a long, long way out of goal. He's shaped it outside the post, and brought it back underneath the crossbar beyond David Marshall. 'You have to applaud' - the reactionįormer Scotland winger Neil McCann: "I'm sitting here as a Scotsman and I'm gutted, but you have to applaud that class, skill and execution. He was also, by far, the highest-rated player by the BBC Sport audience with a score of 8.66. He won the ball back for his side five times, as well as becoming the first Czech player to score twice at a finals in 15 years. The Sparta Prague academy product scored 13 goals in 36 games at club level, and before kick-off at Hampden had been involved in eight goals in his last eight starts at international level.īut it wasn't just Schick's goal-scoring that caught the eye. Schick, a £22m-signing for Leverkusen from Roma last September, came into this summer's finals on the back of an impressive debut season with the Bundesliga side. But the Scotland keeper found himself crashing into the net, along with the ball. Marshall, who clearly wasn't expecting the Leverkusen forward's strike from distance, was sent scrambling. Schick stepped forward into the Scotland half and unleashed a ferocious effort that started well outside David Marshall's left-hand post. While some fingers might be pointed at Scotland centre-back Jack Hendry, whose ambitious shot was blocked and bounced into the Schick's path, but few could have foreseen what would happen next. Then he took the air from the Glasgow ground entirely with what might just be the best European Championship goal ever. 'Painfully familiar, as Scots suffer again'.The Bayer Leverkusen forward had already scored a splendid header just before the break to deflate a Hampden that was fit to burst in Scotland's first appearance at a men's finals in 23 years.
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