Topic: Best ever single performances from players?

[sinnermichael]

another shout for zidane vs brazil 2006.

gerrard has too many to mention. you'll never see a better 30 minute cameo than he had vs newcastle at home last season.

[rowan_d]

another shout for zidane vs brazil vs france 2006.

A 3-way match, with one team only having one player? Must have been fun

[jay0130]

Best one I have been to was Tino Asprila when he got a hat trick against Barcelona at St James' Park   

Youtube or it never happened haha

[reds9]

For me it's Zidane in 2006 against Brazil, as well as in 1998 vs Brazil as well! He hardly scores from headers and he got 2 against Brazil in the final of World Cup! Love that 1998 french team as well, which was truly a brilliant well rounded side.

[loureds]

Roberto Baggio , 1994 World Cup, everything including the final penalty

[Flon]

Xabi Alonso in the derby when Gerrard got sent off early.
Nedved vs Holland at Euro 2004.

[Hazell]

Roberto Baggio , 1994 World Cup, everything including the final penalty

After the group stages he was immense, rightly the best player of the tournament. A shame about what happened in the final.

[Mutton Geoff]

Stan Mortensen  Hat trick in a Cup Final and they called it the Matthews final

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

Drogba throughout the whole of chelsea's champions league campaign. (i know its not a "single performance but it deserves a mention")

Joe Hart vs Dortmund 2 weeks ago

[Something Awful]

Still remember this. Was fantastic.

I remember watching it and being absolutely mindblown. And then they scored and that fuck Tyldesley was like AWAY GOAL AWAY GOAL as if there was even another team in that game.

[Samie]

Ronaldinho v Real Madrid at Bernabeu

To get clapped off by supporters of your biggest rivals shows you the kind of game he had that night.

[loureds]

After the group stages he was immense, rightly the best player of the tournament. A shame about what happened in the final.

yep, he even pulled his ham at the semi final

[Mutton Geoff]

Maradona against England also.

[Solomon Grundy]

Xabi Alonso 4-1 against united. Where I believe Redknapp said :

"Xabi Alonso was sensational spreading the ball to Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard that day."

Haha, shame he didn't even play though.

[Motty]

About half a dozen goalies against us last year

[bird_lfc]

 Gareth Bale vs Inter Milan

But in all seriousness, Zidane vs Leverkusen is the best I personally have seen.

[Anywhichwayicant]

About half a dozen goalies against us last year

[Hazell]

About half a dozen goalies against us last year

Someone mentioned Given vs us at St. James Park when we won 5-1 in 2008. We could have been 3 or 4 up before Gerrard scored the first if it weren't for him.

[Rohit]

Zico vs us.

[Suárrezard]

World Cup Final hat-trick at Wembley for England. The stuff of Legend.

[DerKaiser]

Fernando Redondo vs Man U
Toni Kroos vs Madrid

[tonysleft]

Redondo vs Man U
Toni Kroos vs Madrid (A)

Redondo is a great shout. Ronaldo took all the plaudits for that hat trick game but Redondo was mesmeric in that tie, especially the second leg.

World Cup Final hat-trick at Wembley for England. The stuff of Legend.

Can't even imagine the glorifying that would occur for a player who did something like that today. A hat trick, world cup final, home ground. Couldn't write it.

[Brentieke]

Zidane vs Portugal Euro 2000 semi final.

[Crosby Nick]

Redondo's masterclass at Old Trafford was 2000. Was he still there in 2003?

[Motty]

Someone mentioned Given vs us at St. James Park when we won 5-1 in 2008. We could have been 3 or 4 up before Gerrard scored the first if it weren't for him.

yeah good shout that ,he was brilliant first half especially

[tonysleft]

Redondo's masterclass at Old Trafford was 2000. Was he still there in 2003?

I was thinking he squared it to Ronaldo after that beauty of a flick and not Raul, mix up 

[Anywhichwayicant]

Someone mentioned Given vs us at St. James Park when we won 5-1 in 2008. We could have been 3 or 4 up before Gerrard scored the first if it weren't for him.

Nah, fucking shite goalie.

[Redondos Barber]

Roy Keane. Turin. 1999.

Think it was a bit overrated by the media to be honest, especially after the suspension. But as we're on the subject, Keane vs Holland, Lansdowne Road, 2001. An absolute force of nature that day

[sinnermichael]

clive mendonca for charlton against sunderland in the 4-4 playoff final. 

look it up on youtube. unbelievable hatrick

[NeoAdjuvant]

Gonna throw something a little different into the mix;


Craig Bellamy
Liverpool vs Manchester City
25th January 2012
Anfield

Never have I seen one man run, spit, fight, bleed, torture and downright humiliate a back 6 like that before. He was immense. An absolute force of nature that night, the greatest performance in a red shirt I have ever seen (in the flesh that is). I was the perfect level of drunk for that match, and we were still figuring out how to deal with the Luis shape hole our team had found itself in. If I remember correctly, it stands to this day the only time he played Centre Forward for us during his second spell.

I had the scars for weeks after that match, and I wouldn't have swapped them for a million pounds cash and a blowjob from (insert lust object here).

Craig fucking Bellamy. Somebody wipe me dry.

[scatman]

Someone mentioned Given vs us at St. James Park when we won 5-1 in 2008. We could have been 3 or 4 up before Gerrard scored the first if it weren't for him.

he was actually shite that day, reason we were banging at the door for so long was because we knew he wouldnt come out and claim any crosses, we bombarded their box with crosses and corner after corner

[DutchRed]

Luis Suarez, 6th of March 2011, Anfield, Liverpool - Manchester United.

[Hazell]

he was actually shite that day, reason we were banging at the door for so long was because we knew he wouldnt come out and claim any crosses, we bombarded their box with crosses and corner after corner

We created chances from open play before we scored and Given really kept them in it. Fair point about the corners, we had a couple I think cleared off the line, another one where Lucas might scored and we scored two of ours from that. And yeah, he does have a strange fear of not coming off his line in general, he might have come out earlier for Gerrard's second.

[Ziltoid]

talking to my old neighbour of mined the other day and he was discussing this guy as he was born in halifax and he'd had drinks with him as a youngster,  will always be remembered for his one man show against Arsenal in League cup 1969 for Swindon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Downsborough

[harrythered]

For me, Carragher and Hyypia vs Juve in Turin, 2005, were amazing performances.
Ronaldo vs Manchester Utd another good shout.
And, as above, when Suarez tore Man Utd a new one in his first season, brilliant.

[Red Ol]

Stan Mortensen  Hat trick in a Cup Final and they called it the Matthews final

Good shout. What about Best V Northampton

[sinnermichael]

alonso vs fulham away in rafa's first season when we won 4-2 having been 2-0 down at half time. he singlehandedly turned the game on it's head.

[Chalky Boots]

If we're talking midfield masterclasses away from home than Momo in the Nou Camp deserves a mention.

Have to say, as far as destructive midfield performances go that's one of the best I've seen.
Never gets mentioned enough in comparison to Arbeloa that night.

[Fruity]

Xabi Alonso in the derby when Gerrard got sent off early.
 

That was one of my favourite alonso performances. He really took the game by the scruff of the neck. Gerrard has put in many man of the match performances in the past so you come to expect it from him.

Momo had a few as well - chelsea away one year, the nou camp and a few more here and there. Its great when one player puts in an almighty display. I also recall Benayoun having a couple of blinders as well.

[Clayton Bigsby]

I loved Momo against Chelsea in the Charity Shield. That tackle in Ballack was epic. Have some of that !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa4N-ypfPGw