Luiz’s volley versus Manchester United (2011)
Neutral readers may not find this goal as exciting as the others. But this is a Chelsea site, and this goal was against Manchester United, and the spark that began a fight back to become one of the just four teams the Red Devils lost to that season.
Yet again it’s David Luiz popping up out of nowhere to do something that he shouldn’t be in position, or have the instincts, to do. With an onrushing Patrice Evra, Luiz set his body shape to hit a volley. Before Evra could make contact Luiz had connected sweetly, driving the ball into the turf.
A tenth of a second later and he’d have hit the ball into Evra’s torso. Instead, the ball skidded off the turf like it had been fired from a cannon, spinning inside of the near post and leaving Edwin Van der Sar with no job to do other than admire…then retrieve the ball.
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