Jesper Blomqvist: Better Than Pelé. Sort of.

Our list of the 10 (Actually 12) Greatest Almost Goals of All Time yesterday featured the famous Pelé miss from 1970, where the Brazilian bamboozled Uruguay’s goalkeeper by running the opposite way to the ball, but pulled his shot just wide.

I doubt Swedish winger Jesper Blomqvist would make too many claims about being better than Pelé, but in terms of finishing off that same move with an actual goal, he did what the great man couldn’t quite manage. The video above is from 1995, with Blomqvist scoring for IFK Gothenbeurg against Helsingborg. The slo-mo replay suggests the Helsingborg keeper’s brain and body both freeze when Blomqvist goes one way and the ball goes the other.

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