10 Outstanding Goalkeeper Double Saves
By Chris Wright
With a doff of the cap to Mr Abbiati’s exertions last night, here’s ten more fine, flying, clawing, sprawling goalkeeping double saves to feast your peepers uponst…
1. Jim Montgomery, SUNDERLAND vs Leeds
Regarded by gentlemanly scholars as the greatest double save to have ever graced the game, so a fitting place to start. Coming during Sunderland’s 1-0 win over Leeds in the 1973 FA Cup final, Montgomery pounces to foil first Trevor Cherry then Peter Lorimer and preserve his sides’ fragile lead…
2. Gregory Coupet, Barcelona vs LYON
After flinging himself headlong to keep a looping pass-back from his centre-half out of the net with his head, Coupet somehow also manages to save Rivaldo’s follow-up into the bargain…
3. Chris Tardiff, OXFORD UNITED vs Shrewsbury Town
Point blank…
4. Edwin van der Sar, Chelsea vs MANCHESTER UNITED
Techincally a triple save, Van der Sar foils Chelsea not once, not twice, but thrice – and all without getting up off his backside…
5. Tim Wiese, Eintracht Frankfurt vs WERDER BREMEN, 2010
Who’s this Wiese guy, eh?
6. Fernando Muslera, Argentina vs URUGUAY
Behold, the importance of making oneself ‘big’…
7. Jerzy Dudek, AC Milan vs LIVERPOOL
The Champions League final in 2005 was unequivocally Dudek’s finest night’s work in a Liverpool shirt. After Liverpool had pulled themselves back from the brink to level the score at 3-3, the Pole pulled of an incredible, instinctive double save to deny Andriy Shevchenko from nabbing a late winner. Dudek then gave Shevchenko the old ‘Grobelaar wobbly legs’ in the shoot-out and saved his sudden death penalty too, thus winning Liverpool the big one…
8. Julio Cesar, INTER MILAN vs Roma
Another triple-whammy…
9. Wojciech Sczszesny, Liverpool vs ARSENAL
Yes, Deadly Dirk’s rebound effort was naff, but Szczczzzzszccczzzesny still had a lot of ground to make up…
10. Victor Valdes – BARCELONA vs Villarreal
Having deflected Giuseppe Rossi’s one-on-one effort onto the crossbar, Valdes miraculously manages to get back on his feet and claw the rebound away from the Italian forward on the line with the goal yawning in front of him…
Any we’ve missed (there are a few we couldn’t find videos of; Peter Schmeichel vs Barcelona, Shay Given vs Tottenham, Jussi Jaaskelainen vs can’t quite remember), give us a nudge…
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How is dudeks not number one!!
It was in extra time of the Champions League final!!
@Seb: They’re not really in any particular order – just 10 (should that be 22?) great saves for you ‘orrible lot to enjoy.
It’s Tim Wiese not Tim Weise. He just made an appearance for the german national team vs. France. And he wasn’t the one to blame for the defeat. btw, his contract is expiring by the end of the season
@Gerry: Right you are Sir. Duly amended.
Can’t find the link but i recall peter schmeichel making a tripple save which included one of his famous star jump spread body saves.
Lukasz Fabianski Teriffic double save. Arsenal Vs Wigan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX6wHV9CDmA
Neville Southall!
Take your pick!
Come on Pies!!!!!!
@RFenna: Sorry buddy, you’ll just have to make do with this…
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/everton/86473/youll-never-beat-neville-southall-video.html
I still don’t know how Dudek made that second save…
@ Foran44 Schevchenko shot right at him. It was more luck than good goalkeeping.
@tom jones…..man u fan by any chance???? shot straight at him……you my friend are a gimp of the highest order
Might not be the most acrobatic of saves, but a quadruple save by Kasey Keller in his last home game with Seattle Sounders FC last year was pretty good. Thoughts?
http://youtu.be/chmd18ZhEhw
I wish I could remember who it was against but Tim Howard made this diving effort to push one away from the top left corner, then ran over and dived into the top right to stop it again. Incredible! … can’t find it anywhere tho… so it prolly didn’t happen…
Iker Casillas vs Sevilla in La Liga a few seasons ago?
Arni Arason Man City vs Tottenham. The infamous 4-3 Fa Cup comeback with 10 men.
Casillas vs Sevilla…uh hello? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9hhj1B1otk
*ahem*
1:58 (only link i could find)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxH55gBWda4
@foran44 – im not sure he knows himself.
@tom jones – shut up you spa, you sound like an idiot. it was a class save. he had to put his hands out so it wasn’t straight at him.
@anon1 – Dudek did stick a hand out but I doubt he knew much about it. For me Coupet’s was the most aesthetically pleasing of the bunch.
Kuszczak > Dudek. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tlqxW4qTPs
Szczesny once again – 2:21 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTO_5QDMGGw&feature=related
Ben Foster… WBA v Blackburn 3-0 in 2012… game-turning save, Prem survival *almost* clinched… well, success is all relative, innit?