IF YOU WERE glued to the action in the Aviva last night, chances are you may have missed a few cracking strikes from the other qualification deciders around Europe.
We’ve been up all night watching re-runs of the footage and have finally narrowed the list down to our five favourites. Here you go.
Dare Vrsic (Slovenia 1-0 Serbia)
Serbian keeper Bojan Jorgacevic won’t have slept too soundly last night after he was caught badly for the goal that ended his team’s chances of qualification. Take nothing away from Dare Vrsic though — this was a wonderful strike, putting Slovenia one up on the stroke of half-time.
And yes, of course he meant it.
Mesut Ozil (Germany 3-1 Belgium)
How about this beauty from Mesut Ozil? Head down, clean strike, plenty of power — there ain’t no stopping those bad boys.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Denmark 2-1 Portugal)
Even when he’s scoring meaningless consolation goals in injury time, C-Ron does it better than everybody else.
Edin Dzeko (France 1-1 Bosnia)
Dzeko’s first-half curler proved once again than you simply cannot allow him an inch of space on the ball. A quickly-taken free caught the French defence napping and by the time Adil Rami realised what was happening, the ball was in the back of the net.
David Silva (Spain 3-1 Scotland)
Silva got two last night against Scotland. This was his second, linking beautifully with Pedro before placing the ball just beyond the outstretched arm of Allan McGregor.
