BEVERLY HILLS, June 04, (THEWILL) – After almost 1.3 million votes were cast and accounted for, Porto’s striker Mehdi Taremi emerged as the 2020/2021 winner of the UEFA Champions League Goal of the Tournament.
The striker netted a gloriously stunning bicycle kick in the return fixture of the UCL quarter-final tie between Porto and Chelsea to win the game for his side at Stamford Bridge.
But, it was too little too late as Chelsea’s 2-0 victory in the first leg away at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, played in Seville due to COVID-19 concerns, gave the eventual winners a 2-1 aggregate victory and qualification into the next stage.
Fans selected Taremi’s bicycle kick goal from the top 10 goals of the season compiled by UEFA’s Technical Observers soon after the final. The shortlist of 10 went for a fan vote on Monday 31 May.
Taremi’s goal took the award at it received more than 750,000 votes of the near 1.3 million total votes cast.
Fans’ Goal of the Tournament top three
1. Mehdi Taremi, Chelsea 0-1 Porto
13/04/2021: quarter-finals, second leg
2. Lionel Messi, Paris 1-1 Barcelona
10/03/2021: round of 16, second leg
3. Olivier Giroud, Atlético 0-1 Chelsea
23/02/2020: round of 16, first leg
UEFA Technical Observers’ ten-goal shortlist
Mehdi Taremi, Chelsea 0-1 Porto
13/04/2021: quarter-finals, second leg
Alassane Pléa, Shakhtar 0-6 Mönchengladbach
03/11/2020: Matchday 3
Karim Benzema, Real Madrid 1-1 Chelsea
27/04/2021: semi-finals, first leg
Luka Modrić, Real Madrid 2-3 Shakhtar
21/10/2020: Matchday 1
Lionel Messi, Paris 1-1 Barcelona
10/03/2021: round of 16, second leg
Olivier Giroud, Atlético 0-1 Chelsea
23/02/2020: round of 16, first leg
Neymar, Paris 5-1 İstanbul Başakşehir
09/12/2020: Matchday 6
Manor Solomon, Real Madrid 2-3 Shakhtar
21/10/2020: Matchday 1
Angeliño, Leipzig 2-0 İstanbul Başakşehir
20/10/2020: Matchday 1
Kylian Mbappé, Barcelona 1-4 Paris
16/02/2021: round of 16, first leg
Jude Obafemi is a versatile senior Correspondent at THEWILL Newspapers, excelling in sourcing, researching, and delivering sports news stories for both print and digital publications.
