villa-revolution Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 We all know that the single value of a goal whether it goes in jammily of your backside after tripping up over your 2 left feet (copyright Emile Heskey) or whether it screams into the top right hand corner from 35 Yds out still only counts as one. However, some goals are so crucial that it is almost practically impossible to quantify & evaluate their overall importance to the team & to the club itself. I'm not talking about the quality here either because this season we have witnessed some truly fantastic goals. My top 3 would be Matty Lowton V Stoke, Benteke v West Brom & Weimann away at liverpool. More importantly I am talking about the timing of the goal & what it means in the overall context of the match & it's later overall implications. So for me it is a toss up between Matty lowton's fantastic late strike at Stoke which gave us further momentum & belief versus Gabby's dramatic late, late winner at Norwich which took us to the crucial 40 pt mark & practically rubber stamped our Premier League Survival. So - All things considered - I just have to come down on the side of the Gabster because just how priceless was that goal at Stoke in the overall greater scheme of things to the future of our great, great & famous old football Club? To highlight my point the winner of the Championship play off final between Palace & Watford is reputedly worth a minimum £120M to the winner. We have scored 45 Premier League goals so far this season...............surely none more crucial than Gabby Agbonlahor's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PieFacE Posted May 15, 2013 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2013 Theo Walcotts against Wigan. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG_Villa_Fan Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Gabby's at Norwich surely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Villain Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 (edited) Tekkers one against QPR that won us the match I reckon... Really helped give us momentum for the next few games and gave us the belief that we could get out of it.... Edited May 15, 2013 by DJ_Villain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Loads really, this is similar to moment of the season thread is it not? For me, either Benteke's header against Reading at Home. Horrid performance, scraped a win. Gabby's header at home to QPR just before HT. To come in at 1-1 after that rat performance must have made Lambert's talk a lot easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Theo Walcotts against Wigan. Tiendelli for Swansea was just as important Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nath182 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Gabby at Norwich has to be up there, so late in the game and the season. Without the extra points we would still have been firmly in the shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted May 15, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted May 15, 2013 Lowton vs Stoke for me. Purely because it reminded me that even in the face of desperation and despair, I could still be made to jump out of my seat and run around like a loon by Aston Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Most important? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Lowton vs Stoke [2] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Gabbys for me, i know you could say this about every winning goal but it really was huge, those two points are what secured our survival last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Early Season Clark against Newcastle, assisted by Barry Bannan. Gave us our first point of the season. Crucial to get the young team, slated by Robbie Savage, off zero points, following two straight defeats to West Ham and Everton. Followed it up with a win at home against Swansea. Mid Season Weimann against Liverpool, assisted by Benteke. A world class goal that showed a glimpse of what the team was capable of doing. Defeated Liverpool, our biggest scalp of the season. Alan Hansen never showed up on MOTD. It was great. Late Season Lowton's against Stoke. Out of nothing, against the run of play after Stoke had equalised after Charlie Adam was subbed on. Gave the fans, and probably the players too, a lot of self-belief that we could not only hold on but win late - a trick we repeated against Norwich three games later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 15, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted May 15, 2013 Lowton's. No question. Had we drawn that game we'd be down by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Gabby's against Sunderland. 6-1 - is so much more of a msauling than 5-1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I think it's going to be Bowery's against Wigan making it 9-0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Early Season Clark against Newcastle, assisted by Barry Bannan. Gave us our first point of the season. Crucial to get the young team, slated by Robbie Savage, off zero points, following two straight defeats to West Ham and Everton. Followed it up with a win at home against Swansea. Mid Season Weimann against Liverpool, assisted by Benteke. A world class goal that showed a glimpse of what the team was capable of doing. Defeated Liverpool, our biggest scalp of the season. Alan Hansen never showed up on MOTD. It was great. Late Season Lowton's against Stoke. Out of nothing, against the run of play after Stoke had equalised after Charlie Adam was subbed on. Gave the fans, and probably the players too, a lot of self-belief that we could not only hold on but win late - a trick we repeated against Norwich three games later. I love the way you have thrown assists into the equation just so you can type 'Barry Bannan' (who is shit). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted May 15, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted May 15, 2013 Early Season Clark against Newcastle, assisted by Barry Bannan I don't believe you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oaks Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 (edited) So many really, Benteke vs Swansea was also important as it stopped the rot. Edit and when I said Benteke I ment Weimann. Edited May 15, 2013 by Oaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Gabby vs QPR (if I had to pick one) We'd just beaten Reading, but had yet to really find our form. We were playing pretty poorly against a QPR side that for a while looked like it was getting the Harry Houdini effect (sorry guys ) and suddenly that goal came from nowhere. Completely changed the confidence with which we played our football, although how much that was down to the goal is debatable I guess, as always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I'll go with Benteke at Reading. This was the 1st of our many relegation 6 pointers and wed gone 1-0 down. We go straight down the other end and score and immediately take all the momentum. Had we not done that and they'd had a little time to settle on their lead, who knows? Hitting back right away gave us confidence, we went on to win and then continued that form for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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