Chelsea had leveled the scoreline against Porto at the end of the first half, but now trail again early in the second thanks to a fantastic header from Maicon and their defense kinda falling asleep.
Porto defender scores awesome bending header against Chelsea
Maicon just scored on a header that barely seems possible.
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Credit: user JCMarino123 on r/soccer
The focus will be on Chelsea's defense for many -- and that's fair, because that's just not great defending of a corner -- but let's instead concentrate on how fantastic Maicon is here. The movement to react to how the ball is coming in from the corner is excellent -- but that header. Wow, that header. He's moving away from goal with a player behind him, and Maicon still bends it around Ramires and beats the goalkeeper to the near post. That's just unfair. It almost seems unreal. He makes it look easy, but that is an extraordinarily difficult way to score.
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