Best Debuts of all time?

by samcooke1991 Thu Jul 18, 2013 12:57 am

what sticks in everyone's memory as the best debuts of all times? everyone tends to have a favourite after all.

Put together a list dedicated to just the best debuts in the premiership here: http://blog.oddslife.com/2013/07/best-premier-league-debuts/

But naturally there's many more from other leagues, the international scene etc. have your say!!

by Berbatov Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:34 am

Romario's hattrick vs Real Sociedad
Zidane's brace vs Czech Republic
Rooney's hattrick vs Fenerbahce
Robben's brace vs Wolfsburg

by B-Mac Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:42 am

Rooney's debut for Everton and Manchester United, scored a wonder goal against Arsenal invicibles in his Everton debut, champions league hat trick against fenerbache in his Manchester United debut

by Ganso Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:48 am

Considering i havent been watching football for a very long time, Oscar's brace vs Juve and Aguero brace in a few minutes vs Swansea for me

by Pedram Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:55 am

Woodgate.

by Uncanny Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:36 am

I'm going with Gondi and saying I haven't watched football for that long so my memorable debuts were seeing Sergio aguero being awesome against Swansea with what little time he had, they were completely stunned by him.
And also Oscar's brace against juventus, and seeing Buffon's facial expression. Those are it for me this upcoming season for football holds a lot of promise.

by Forza Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:40 am

Paloschi's 18 second goal.

by fatman123 Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:40 am

Bertrands CL debut :coffee:

by B-Mac Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:47 am

Macheda vs Aston Villa...to bad he has done nothing since lol

by zizzle Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:44 am

Recoba, he debuted in the same game as Ronaldo and absolutely overshadowed him

by Zlatan Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:08 am

B-Mac MUFC wrote:Macheda vs Aston Villa...to bad he has done nothing since lol

He scored the winner in the next match as well :coffee:

by rwo power Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:30 am

Okay, not fully debut, but it was his DFB-Pokal debut (10 days after his BL debut as 4th youngest player ever with just 17 years, 117 days). Julian Draxler was subbed on in the 116th minute of the DFB-Pokal quarter final Schalke vs Nürnberg when the match was at 2:2 in extra time, and he scored the winning 3:2 in the 119th minute. :bow:

Oh, and a memorable debut, but unfortunatelöy not really one of the category "best of" was Marc-André ter Stegen's in the German NT. In his firsr NT match, Switzerland managed to defeat Germany 5:3 - the first Swiss win after 56 years and incidentally the same result as the very first match of a German NT in 1908, that, too, ended 5:3 for Switzerland.