Best World Cup goals: The Maradona magic that left Gary Lineker in complete awe | BBC Sounds

In the opening episode of a special World Cup series of Match of the Day: Top 10, Gary Lineker is joined by Micah Richards and Alan Shearer to discuss the best goals the tournament has ever seen. They reflect on Diego Maradona's second goal vs England in the 1986 World Cup quarter final and Gary shares what it was like to witness it on the pitch.

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[juppderwal]

I remember the farewell game from Lothar Matthäus in Germany.
Many stars and Maradona were on the pitch. But nobody was looking on Matthäus, the spectators all wanted to see Maradona, despite his chubby appearance. He showed some tricks und the people were going nuts.

[ftmsafc]

“You had a birds eye view, you were right behind him.” A birds eye view is from above Alan!

[fredrikdahl]

In terms of the Maradona and Messi debate, and the fuetbol goat debate in General, i dont know how to judge or analyse who is the best footballer, considering the different eras these players play/played in. But what i will say is that the achievement of winning with napoli and Argentina, in the 80s as a football era, in the best league at the time in serie a, is beyond impressive by Maradona imo. Also, every serie a team in that time had all time great teams and Quality players in every team, not to mention the physical and rough style of play at the time in Football. Also what messi was doing in his later Barca years and the world cup in 2022 was equally impressive. But for me, i would say Maradona stayed and Performed for a longer time than messi in average teams, while messi played for great teams for the majority of his career, especially at the club level with Barcelona. I would ib other words say that messi played on great Barca teams from 2004 when he began his professional career with Barca, until 2017 when neymar left and the msn era was over. Because what Messi did with that good but maybe not great barca teams from 2017 to 2021 was the most impressive achievement in Messis career together with what Messi did with Argentina, with Argentina winning the 2022 world cup in Qatar. Mainly because those Barca teams was not as great contenders as in the years past. Either way for me there is no goat but great and in their own right inspiring footballers because it is a team game after all. No player can do it alone and the player is only as good as the te around the player is although some players might be more distinctive than others but every player is still important to the Teams success imo😊❤🙌⚽

[donramonramirez]

Definitivamente, Mr Gary Lineker es un CABALLERO 👋👋👋👋👋👍🇦🇷

[thisisanfield]

Maradoo was the King of Football. RIP Legend

[arfenmalik]

Maradona and then later on it was Ronaldinho knocking England out when they had a goal
It always has to be a brilliant South American youngster

[tonyfagiolo]

Who ever has followed football and loves the game must recognise the uniqueness of Diego Armando Maradona, Messi no were on the same level

[dnyjdik]

1990 world cup Diego played with enjury and people can't understand what does it mean for player..he played under injections whole world cup and reached finals..try to find his career in details in Barca in national team whow many obstacles had to overcome..than u start thinking and realize that Diego was unbelievable player and person❤❤R.I.P🙏🙏

[billybigtime]

Always felt when he went on that run for the second goal it was out of guilt for the 1st goal just to balance it up

[tvgcmma]

Maradona had a similar run year before and got chance from se angle but shot and it was saved - so when he was 1-1 which shilton he remembered that so went around him and scored - to have the skill is one thing but under that pressure to have time to change mind is just as impressive

[Chuckson]

Maradona won that World Cup on his own. He also went to one of the worst teams in Italy and won them 2 league titles. He didn't go to an already established top 4 club. It would be like Messi going to a club in England today like Burnley and winning the title.

[dgcm]

Messi doesnt have the character and charm of a Maradona. Its not about statistics. Its about the impact and influence to the world Maradona has that. Maradona is the GOAT

[Tonysmithmusic]

he played a different game to all other players. no one comes close. not even pele.

[knighthawk]

A birdseye view? not sure Diego was that short Alan.

[annandune]

Every time I have to hear about this goal I remember what my mum said at the time which was that Diego might not have found it so easy to go past all the England players if they hadn't still been in shock from the first goal and I think there is a lot of truth in that.

He scored a similar goal against Belgium which I think would be a better one to choose as he hadn't just cheated prior to that so hadn't left the opposing team stunned as to what just happened.

I do end up agreeing with Lineker about Maradona in general though. I really didn't like him as a kid but the more I found out about him the more I thought he was probably a very troubled individual with great talent who probably wanted to do the best for his loved ones. RIP.

[The_Boss.]

Maradona was not a football player. He is football.

[laureanoalfaro]

I really like Gary, because he actually loves the game per se and I know he is joking, but the day someone do a REAL analysis of the whole game, would notice that to the very least Fenwick deserved two red cards (including an elbow that was quite atrocious), the fouls specially on Diego that day were way out of line...but I guess it's part of the twisted way we all tend to see the game (specially old farts like me in the past) that when violence or mere witty fouls are made it's part of the game but when the offensive players take some advantage it's not. Even with more protecting rules, it still feels that the majority of us "wrongly" still lean to this approach

[Swat-edbt]

England are still needing therapy from those goals 😂😂😂😂🎉

[jaimerivera]

It wasn’t a foul before the play.
England’s player dive.

[Vendetta_Yaya_Toure]

Bwoy Linker cannot let go as to carry belly after what short man did that day