5 instances when goalkeepers scored insane goals
How often do we see goalkeepers score a goal that isn’t in a penalty shootout but during the game? Instances like these are few and far between with many of them being either freak goals or scored from a last-minute scramble in the box. But there have been instances when the men with the gloves have also scored from other situations. We take a look at few such goals that will always be remembered by the fans. Goals which the opposition goalkeepers would like to forget but probably never will.
#1 Tim Howard
Before Tim Howard shot to fame in the World Cup when he made 16 saves in a Round of 16 match against Belgium, he was just another American footballer who reached the shores of England, trying to make a name for himself in the Premier League.
But one moment in 2012 will be a major highlight in his career – when he scored from his own box in an EPL match against Bolton Wanderers. As the ball rolled into his box, Howard attempted to launch an attack upfield with a long ball.
Only it was too long, thanks in part to the windy conditions at Goodison Park that winter night in January. The ball bounced once outside the box and looped high above Adam Bogdan in Bolton’s goal before bouncing again inside the goal line. On another day, he may have judged that perfectly. Not that night.
Howard refused to celebrate, as most goalkeepers do when they score against their opposite number. "It was cruel. You saw the back fours and the keepers not being able to believe balls all night, and at the back one wrong step and it can be a nightmare,” Howard said, according to The Guardian.
“For our goal I was disappointed from a goalkeepers' union standpoint. You never want to see that happen. It's not nice, it's embarrassing, so I felt for Adam but you have to move on from it.”