Olivier Giroud, Arsenal v Crystal Palace, 1 January Never mind us waffling on about this, here’s Arséne Wenger: “Any goalscorer is ready to take any part of his body, even if it’s the little toe, to score a goal and Olivier had that kind of reflex. He transformed that goal, I would say, into art. “It was art because of the surprise, because of the beauty of the movement and because of the efficiency of the movement. That will be remembered as the ‘Giroud goal’, which nobody will forget. Every striker is certainly remembered for one or two or three special goals and that will certainly remain with him forever. “Olivier brings the unexpected and we all come to football to get the unexpected. I have been spoiled in my career because I had many great strikers but that is certainly in my top five [of great goals] Thomas Lemar, Monaco v Marseille, 15 January In a few years we’ll look back on the Monaco side of 2016-17 and recognise the crying shame that they couldn’t all stay together for a season or two more. Still, Thomas Lemar is there for now, and as long as he is, there’s the possibility of him doing more stuff like this. Andy Carroll, West Ham v Crystal Palace, 17 January Being a West Ham fan this year has been a relatively grim business, but there was the odd speck of light. Well, thundering barrage of blinding light, if Andy Carroll is involved. Not a footballer prone to subtlety, Carroll didn’t faff around with this one, when a cross from Michail Antonio floated a little behind where he would like to land one of his Thor’s hammer headers, so he improvised. Improvised the ball right into the top corner at ferocious speed, but his scissor-kick was executed with a grace you don’t necessarily expect from a man of Carroll’s dimensions. Perhaps the most satisfying goal of the year.. Here’s the Inter centre-back’s athletic attempt to trump Andy Carroll. Dennis Kempe, Karlsruher v Bielefeld, 29 January A goal made by the quickest 360 roulette turn you’ll see this year in the hip environs of 2 Bundesliga. Fernando Torres, Atlético Madrid v Celta Vigo, 12 February Do you remember Fernando Torres when he was in his pomp at Liverpool and banging goals in from ridiculous angles as though his boots had laser-guided targeting built into them? Well, this goal was an example of that Torres. Back to goal and 18 yards out Thelo Asgaard, Wigan U15 v Blackburn Rovers U15, 17 February Ah, the impetuousness of youth. You have to be either pretty fearless or pretty foolish to attempt a rabona from the edge of the area, given the things that could go wrong and the thick ears he could be given. Who knows which Thelo Asgaard is, but we do know this: when it comes off the results are most impressive. Jordi Mboula, Barcelona U19 v Borussia Dortmund U19, 22 February There are few things more beautiful in football than the Marseille turn, a skill mastered so expertly by Zinedine Zidane that some now call it the Zidane turn. But in February, it was a boy from Barcelona making it his own: Jordi Mboula. Playing in the Uefa Youth League, he starts just inside Dortmund’s half, spinning effortlessly around his marker before dashing down the right wing. He slows to compose himself, dissects two Dortmund defenders with absurdly quick feet and finishes calmly into the bottom corner. Watch out for the expression on the Dortmund defender’s face, just after he’s been done for a second time. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Memphis Depay, Lyon v Toulouse, 12 March The best thing about this goal, other than the fact it was from the halfway line, is that Memphis Depay – from the moment he picks the ball up to the moment he lets fly – doesn’t look at the goal once. He just knows. Sometimes with goals of this ilk there is goalkeeper error involved but here the Dutchman’s speed of thought and foot is so quick, and the weight of shot so measured, that we simply have to applaud the brilliance displayed. Harry Kane, Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea, 22 April Of the billion or so goals Harry Kane has scored this year there have probably been more technically accomplished, certainly more spectacular and, as Tottenham lost this game 4-2 anyway, more meaningful ones. But this gets our nod just because it was so unusual, Kane stooping and allowing the ball to flick off the top of his head and into the corner of the net. Great goalscorers such as Kane will always find some way of getting the ball into the net, and often ways that the rest of us wouldn’t even have considered possible, never mind been able to actually execute. highlights,best goals 2017,messi best goals,ronaldo best goals,kane best goals,sports,soccer,la liga,Premier League,barcelona,real madrid,Arsenal,Thomas Lemar,psg,coutinho,cavani,nymar,mohamed salah,highlights best goals 2017,goals,2017,highlights,football highlights,bundesliga,mohamed salah goals,Jeison Murillo,liverpool,man city,football,epl,bpl,messi vs ronaldo,best goals 2017/18,top goals 2017