Meet Football's Biggest Choke Artists 

Gerrard dragged an average Liverpool to beating one of the best teams of all time after being 3-0 down in a cl final

Leverkusen "won" or achieved a triple in 2002 - by choking in three different competitions in that year, in the CL final, the Cup final and placing second in the Bundesliga, which was decided on the last matchday. Some Leverkusen players also lost the World Cup final with Germany in 2002.

I know Gerrard has had a slip or 2 but his fa cup final performance in 2006 alone is enough to make him clutch imo. Add on Istanbul as well

We need a part 2 most of the chokes have effect on the team for years it's mad

Dortmund had a title choke very similar to Newcastle's against Bayern in 2019. They were going almost unbeaten in the first half of the season, losing only one match and drawing one match while winning the other 15 of the 17 matches. I think they were c. 10 points ahead of Bayern. Shortly after the start of the second season half they were suddenly losing and drawing against several mediocre teams, of course like always lost in Munich (they had won the first match in Dortmund), were soon taken over by Bayern (who won every match except two in the second half of the season), seemingly lost their last chance for the title by losing against terribly bad archrivals Schalke. On the match before the last one, Bayern did not decide the title with a 0-0 against Leipzig (a goal of them being declared extremely slim offside), Dortmund reduced the distance from 4 to 2 points, but then Bayern easily decided the title on the last matchday by trashing Frankfurt. They finished 78 points, Dortmund 76 points. Dortmund and especially very quiet Lucien Favre were critisised for missing mentality, and emotion and never having showed the real effort to win the title (as it never was their season aim). Dortmund's choke this year was remarkable as a team leading before the last match and then playing at home had never before lost the title in front of its home fans. Also remarkable was that Sebastien Haller missed an early penalty to turn around Dortmund's match. In 2000 Bayer Leverkusen choked leading before the last match. They lost against a relegated team, with Michael Ballack scoring an own goal. In 2009, I think, Schalke choked by losing against their archrivals Dortmund (similar to Dortmund losing the title against Schalke in 2019). In the 1980s Werder Bremen had two terribly tragic chokes against Bayern. There was one season where Bremen had led the table between the 1st and the 33rd match, they lost the title to Bayern on the last match. In another season Werder only needed to win against Bayern in the 32nd match to clear the title. Bremen's penalty taker who had never missed a penalty throughout his whole career (and would never miss another penalty) shot the penalty against the post, the match stayed 0-0, I think. Bayern won the title as Bremen did not win the following two matches.

The Gerrard slip is the most over used idiotic talking point out there. They lost the game 2-0. The slip didn’t cost them the game. It didn’t cost them the league title either. Gerrard is easily one of the best midfielders of all time who gets way to much hate bc he didn’t win a Prem but everyone ignores the horrible ownership that nearly bankrupt LFC and the horrible teams he was part of. If Gerrard left LfC for Chelsea or another club he would have easily been regarded as the best English midfielder of all time. Even Zidane himself called Gerrard the best player on the planet back in 2009.

Biggest chokes in LaLiga must be the Madrid one from 03/04, although I don't remember any iconic moment. 06/07 was a wild one because at one point Madrid sat 4th and 6 pts away from the leader (Sevilla) and 5 pts away from Barça in 2nd. It was an impossible title won on tie break rules and had the Tamudazo as an iconic moment. It could be considered a choke by Barça

I remember Chelsea coming 3rd in 2013/14 but I forgot how close they were to the top because of the liverpool-city storyline and Mourinho's "two horse race and Chelsea are a baby horse who will race next year" press conference

There are so many teams. Tottenham when they see a trophy, the Belgian National Team, Borussia Dortmund last season

putting gerrard on the thumbnail is probably a wrong decision. Istanbul cancels out the slip imo.

Viz you should do a video about clubs biggest downfalls like middlesbrough blackburn leicester bolton clubs like that

Gerrard scored in every major cup final during his career, and was MoM in four seperate finals.

Robben is a weird one, he choked in the 2010 wc final and 2012 ucl final, but made it (almost) all good in 2013 ucl and 2014 world cup

The context of the Crystal Palace match was summed up well in Henderson’s auto biography We had to hammer them by 8 and we had to keep attacking even at 4-0

that bottling of 3-0 lead against crystal palace was way worse than slip against chelsea

My Goat is back ! I love your content and everytime you post it's a gift from the heavens and always a banger! Thanks Mate !

Im an american liverpool fan and my first memory of english football was in middle school watching city lift that trophy. i had no idea back then the subsequent pain and shame i would feel in the years that followed, but I'm from boston so my choke tolerance would already be junkie-level

“With Newcastle only being 4 points behind Newcastle” - A legend

Bro ur videos r super nice. U always have a different way to look at something and convey the gravity of that peeiod in time 🔥

Bayer Leverkusen with Michael Ballack in 2001/2002. On for the treble ( The bundesliga, DFB Pokal and The Champions League). They lost the DFB Pokal to Schalke, lost the Bundesliga title to Borussia Dortmound and lost the champions league final to Real Madrid with that Zidane volley sealing the win in Hampden Park. They have since gain the nickname of Never-Kusen from rival fans. This happen as well the previous year.

"Newcastle being 4 points behind Newcastle"😂

Sporting 2004-2005 is unbelievable. Lost an almost certain league and the uefa cup final at home. Benfica 2012-13 is beautiful as an FC Porto fan I loved it.

banger of a vid thus far here Viz!

Solid vid, well done. More like this will definitely be appreciated

I love what you do man and you are one of my favorite RU-vid channels I just want to say love what you are doing and keep doing it❤

Gerrard is not a choker… not at all. By the way… crystanbul wouldn’t change anything, Liverpool was depending on city’s results after Chelsea.

I dont agree the Liverpool season was a choke, your definition stated being favorites is part of it. Liverpool was in great form but at the start of the season was expected to challange for top 4 at most. It was a team full of average players, especially in defence, and some world class players. Competing against oil clubs with squads way more packed out.

The Liverpool part is incorrect, they needed to beat Palace about 8-0 to win the league because City had 2 home games against average teams with nothing to play for. That's why they were bombing forward at 3-0.

Inter Milan in 2001/02 was considered the most heartbreaking chokes in Italian Football. Before the final day, Inter were in top of the table with 69 points, but had 1 point separated between them and Juventus and 2 points above Roma. Despite being 1-0 and 2-1 ups at the grueling game vs Lazio, they conceded 3 and lost 2-4, with Ronaldo 9 being subbed out before the game concluded. The Brazillians reacted in tears after seeing Juventus and Roma leapfrogged them for Top 2 with narrow wins over Udinese and Torino, respectively, giving Juventus the Scudetto at the conclusion of the season.

Brilliant video liam would love u to do a part 2

Niran is Gonna love this!

We need a part two to be even longer

I'm not sure why, but the Premier League will always have a culture of choking & nobody is immune to it

Hi Vizeh! Great video! My question why did you put Odegaard on the thumbnail of this video? Did had a big choke moment?

IT WASNT THE GERRARD SLIP! It’s the Kolo Touré failed backpass to Peter Odemwingie against West Brom that made Liverpool lose that 13/14 title. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G1_a44KZSf0.htmlsi=QxJnLZXwJ7x5EYr1 If it weren’t for that mistake they wouldn’t have wasted points against West Brom and inevitably won the league

Part2 pls vizeh

It's silly how Gerrard's career can be distilled into one incident. Calling him a choke after over a decade of being the KEY factor to pulling victory out of defeat again and again and again is simply ignorance

Not a season choke but PSG absolutely melting in La Remontada losing 6-1 after winning the first leg 4-0

Please a part 2!!!!!

My first season watching football was 95/96. My introduction to football was watching my local team bottle the league. Explains a lot.

Leverkusen in 2001-02, on course for a historic trebel & managed to lose everything in May, special mention to Ballack who went on to lose the World cup final

Please do another Choke Vid! I’d love to learn more about the history of Arsenal and Spurs 🤣

I'm already calling this before watching the video: Rensenbrink in the 1978 WC final. Not scoring, but shooting at the inner side of the post. In the Netherlands we even named that type of miss a "Rensenbrink". But you might miss out on Robben vs Casillas' toe.

Part 2 Please

As a liverpool fan, it still hurts man. Even though I must admit, if the team had won, Rodgers would probably never leave so soon in the next season, as he would be immortalized by the fanbase as the first Premier League winning manager in history. Which means that Klopp might never have come. And all those years later, having Klopp as the manager of Liverpool is something which only made me love the team more, as a person who lives abroad but still watches every match.

Add England vs Italy, imo England should have beaten them and won the Euros.

How about the Liga MX 2013 final, America vs. Cruz Azul? Cruz Azul were up by 2 on global, up by one man, 3 minutes left, and America forced penalties, then won! Also, Cruz Azul in general chokes so much that they have the word Cruz-Azuleada used in place of choke

That title with the thumbnail is wild, welcomed but still wild.

Sporting 2004-2005 (league and uefa cup final at home) and 2015-2016 (league with Bryan Ruiz missing a sitter against benfica)

Love it keep it up.

Idk whats worst. Gerard slipping, or Demba Ba actually scoring.

WOULD LUV PT 2 PLS

14:59 Newcastle 4 points behind Newcastle😂😂 that slipped past the edit

Biggest chokes in spfl Celtic 2003 lost the Europa league final to Porto 3-2 lost the Scottish league cup final to rangers 2-1 and lost the league on the final day of the season on goal difference by 1 goal to rangers

Unbelievable that you didn't include Leverkusen

I think you skipped over the part that barbosa didn’t just burn the goal post he invited all his friends over grilled it without them knowing and then served it to them to eat it 😂

need a peterborough choke in the playoffs last season

WE DON"T LET THIS SLIP

In the 2009 Brazilian League, Palmeiras were 5 points ahead with 10 matches to go, a difference that had never been overcome at that point, but they had a terrible sequence and ended up not only losing the title to Flamengo, who was 5th with 10 matches to go and 9 points behind, but they couldn't even get a spot for the Copa Libertadores, finishing 5th on the league. Then in 2020, first São Paulo had a 7 points lead with 11 matches to go, but the team melt down and with fights in the dressing room, they lost the lead to Internacional in the 31th round, after a 5x1 loss at home, but on the 35th match Inter lost 2x1 to Sport, who was fighting against relegation, and then on the 37h round, they played away against Flamengo, with a 1 point advantage and the chance to win the league, but they lost 2x1 and FLamengo took the leadership before the fnal match. But then, when it was looking like Flamengo was also going to choke, with a 2x1 loss away aginst São Paulo, Inter had a draw at Home against Corinthians in a dramatic game, with lots of missed chances, a controversial handball that the ref didn't gave a penalty, and a offside goal on the injury time of the 2nd half, after Flamengo's match, which became a meme here in Brazil.

if the gerrard slip counts as a choke, then surely asamoah gyan's penalty miss also counts in the 2014 World Cup. It would have seen an African country get tot the semifinal of a World Cup for the first time (good thing Morocco 2022 happened) Asamoah was one of the best players in the continent and in the world but that pen miss is his defining moment.

I think you should do a second video on Andrés Escobar, as that could have been the worst skip up in football history

That gerrard slip is the best thing that happened to english football

Ajax vs spurs 2019, Bayern x man united 1999… those were major choke jobs.

Morocco vs Tunisia in the final of the AFcon 2004

Arsenal and Liverpool in 07 Liverpool '09. When they thought they would win the league with that dossena goal

when was this recorded this season just started😊

Helicopter Sunday deserves to be here, the Scottish league came to the last few minutes, Rangers had beat Hibs at eater road with Celtic having to beat Motherwell away to win the league, celtic were 1-0 up for 80 minutes before a Scott McDonald double for Motherwell sent the helicopter carrying the trophy the other way to Easter Road.

We need the collab with Maqwell

It was West Ham who City played in the last game of the season in 13/14

Hungarian golden generation losing their first game in the last 60, but it happened to be the world cup final

Dortmund last season completely bottling the league on the final day against a mid table team, With Bellingham getting injured and unable to help

When I think choke in footy, I automatically think of that Roberto Baggio penalty 😳

was waiting for that dortmund shambles last season

Liverpool won a Covid PL with no fans to celebrate lmao gotta feel bad for them.

14:99 with Newcastle only been 4 points behind Newcastle 🤣🤣

Usually love your stuff but Stevie G was the definition of clutch his entire career. Dont be ignorant and jump on the "slippy G" bandwagon, he;s a bonafide legend and one of the greatest midfielders ever to play the game....and FAR from a choke artist.

I wonder if you will comment on the new Dude Perfect ownership at Burnley.

Any iceberg vids soon ?

8:41 How much do you want to jinx it? All of Brazil: Yes.

How about the England national team? Always seems to be a favourite in major tournaments but always fail to deliver the prize 😅

Vizeh is definitely starting to really love these Lemmino bgm 💀

JT slip, Gerrard slip, spurs bottling prem, bayern not killing the game with that penalty. We're so weird

Borussia Dortmund chocking at the very last match against 1.FSV Mainz last season.

How is Liverpool over Milan not on here??

4:19 it was since 1990 not 92 that Liverpool won 🤔

Liverpool covered up Arsenal choke in the same season. City choke against Chelsea team with no strikers and ok forwards, plus Chelsea having a wishi washy season (In the cl final). Leicester city choke in the championship playoffs after missing a penalty. Giving us one if the best commentary moments ever.

What's the song in the intro?

Leave my man Odegaard alone with that thumbnail 😭

Should have played for the Dutch national team

Choke also known as Spurs.

You used clips of it in the video: Chelsea vs Bayern in the Allianz Arena. Everything was made for this game to be Bayerns Champions League win, after failing against the italian treble team of inter. But fucking Drogba pulls that club out of the deep hell and almost every Bayern player fails the penalty shootout, except Neuer. This match is so deeply ingrained into my dads head, that he still hates Chelsea more than any other club in the world. More than Leipzig, more than Dortmund, more than anything. I watched it with him, I saw the euphoria, the happiness and then the absolute despair in his face. The only reason it hurts less is because of the treble the year afterwards, it was as if all the pain had gone away in an instant (and probably because it was against Dortmund lol).

Phew we are safe

Every penalty shootout for England..ever. Chokefest!

What Ødegård do?

Stevie G. 😍😍😍😍

BORUSSIA DORTMUND THIS YEAR

Tottenham 2016

Harry Kane choking we will be there

attendance in 1950 was actually estimated to be around 200 thousand, not 173.

Rotherham vs burnley at turf 2-1 Rotherham at 90 mins 3-2 Burnley at 100 mins biggest choke for rotherham