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 | | Monday, 25 March, 2002, 06:52 GMT Smicer's smasher  Vladimir Smicer has been one of the supporting cast in Liverpool's challenge for the Premiership title. But his injury-time winner against Chelsea would have won any goalscoring Oscar. He will be happy to settle, though, for it being voted BBC Sport Online's Goal of the Week. Chelsea looked to have prised a point from Anfield which would have been precious to their own aspirations of claiming a Champions League place. But Liverpool had one last hurrah left in them. Jari Litmaanen has so much more to his game than just being a mere penalty box predator. The Finn collected the ball some 40 yards out and clipped a beautiful pass into the path of Emile Heskey, marauding down the left.
Heskey took it in his stride and whipped a left-footed cross into the middle. It found Smicer, who quickly sized up the situation. The Czech had little or no time to control the ball and get in a strike, so he opted to shoot first time. There is no more difficult task than to volley a ball accurately, but Smicer displayed the perfect technique. He got his body-shape just right, and keeping his eye on the ball, ensured he had his knee over the ball when he struck it. The ball was struck as sweet as a nut, and never went above head height as it fizzed into the goal to put Liverpool top of the table. | |
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