Shevchenko misses, turns around, runs into a bloke and falls over

You’ve probably seen it a 100 times by now but if you hadn’t, here’s a quick peek at Shevchenko’s miss against Blackburn on Sunday.

Sheva miss

Now, the thing that was really interesting in this one was not that Shevchenko missed a sitter (he did, but that was a combination of over-eagerness and lack of concentration) but how he went about redeeming himself afterwards.

He turns around, looks for the ball, realises that it’s too far away and then runs into the nearest defender and goes to the ground clutching his thigh.

Focused on finishing this one off the right way, he then gets up gingerly, looks around and walks away grimacing. If you saw just that moment you’d never believe that Shevchenko had missed a chance to win the semifinal for Chelsea. You’d probably be screaming at the ref for not giving a cast-iron penalty.

Good play to you, Mr. Shevchenko. Getting subbed soon afterwards didn’t help matters, but with 14 goals this season and West Ham and Arsenal coming up sooner or later you’ll get a real chance at redemption.

Update: Here’s the embedded video for the twat who can’t follow the bloody link:


Shevchenko Miss vs Blackburn
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Topics: Andriy Shevchenko, Football Videos

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9 Comments

  1. razorhead

    excellent post

    April 17th, 2007 @ 01:21
  2. David

    nice, great, wish there were more posts like this

    April 17th, 2007 @ 11:02
  3. Ahmed Bilal

    posted, with compliments :)

    April 17th, 2007 @ 18:09
  4. Jade

    Haha!! LMAO!!! And this is supposed to be a player worth £50 million and Hernán Crespo!!!! My baby sister could have put that one in and she can’t even walk!! :P :P:P Just Kidding Chelsea Fans!! … I just hope he does a lot of those at the FA Cup final ;)

    April 17th, 2007 @ 19:25
  5. Alex

    can’t see the vid, cant link, just post the videos will you

    April 17th, 2007 @ 18:05
  6. Alex

    Thankyou!!!!! what a SHAMBLES that was!!!!!!! schevvy the divvy!!!

    April 17th, 2007 @ 19:45
  7. comical

    i read a preview to the game quote:’The only problem I see with Blackburn is that they don’t have the defence to cope with Shevchenko – not even an out-of-form Shevchenko.’ ha ha! now thats funny!

    April 18th, 2007 @ 03:01
  8. Ahmed Bilal

    well, to be fair, they couldn’t cope with him. The only problem was that he couldn’t cope with it either…

    April 18th, 2007 @ 03:46
  9. Conor

    Also turns out that Sheva has injured himself with an air kick against Blackburn;

    http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/07/04/18/manual_100225.html&TEAMHD=soccer

    To think he was once the most deadliest striker in Europe! LOL Quality stuff!

    April 18th, 2007 @ 14:32