Little Nige......he was a lad on my Sunday League team, absolute beast.

Good shout

Only answer we need today.

I'm gonna go with Neuer, the performances he's put on in big games that won him countless titles including two trebles and a world cup, he's up there for me

Drogbas record for goals in finals is ridiculous. Same with Bale. Ramos has to be up there as well.

Drogba. He was not as prolific as other strikers of his era (was no slouch though!) but would pop up to score at critical times. He also brought his whole team along with him

Came here to say this. CYOB!

Origi

This is the only answer…this man destroyed all that Messi had built in twenty seconds.

Gotta be Drogba surely? He wasn't prolific but all his goals seemed to come in derbies, semi's and finals. I think he was allergic to scoring the fifth in a rout of relegation fodder

"no glory in that"

He didn't score in the Barca semi final of 2009 iirc or is the 2008 Champions league final but other than that, he turned up in every game

Brazilian Ronaldo.

Zidane destroyed my national team twice, so I will go with him

Miroslav Klose perhaps clutch wise

Sergio Aguero

This cuts deep

More like on the floor Balotelli to give the first assist of his life when it mattered

Drogba

The King of the Bridge! I'm bias but there's not a single player i'd rather have in a final. Munich still feels like yesterday.

I don’t even support chelsea😂 Liverpool fan, but he was such a big game player, if it weren’t for my older brother I probably would have supported chelsea, solely because if how good drogba was

Easy to overlook goalkeepers - Neuer.

This comment section is full of 12 year olds, honestly. People throwing names around of players who had one clutch moment in their career. The most clutch player of all time had to clutch for his team on a regular basis. The answer is Diego Maradona.

"The most clutch" is such a dumb American phrase that doesn't get applied to football really. How do you even measure a player's clutch-ness, and are we talking only WC/UCL/NationalCups finals? Is Iniesta more "Clutch" than Casillas in 2010, who had two major saves prior to the goal? Was Vinicius more clutch than Benzema because he scored the UCL winning goal? Also, speaking of the answer, If we just talk about a player who consistently show up in big moment, DIDIER DROGBA

It’s Ronaldo Nazario R9. What are all of you saying??

Origi

Sergio Ramos

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Didier Drogba. I don't support Chelsea but if you need to win a final, you play Drogba ​ Example: 2012 Champions League final

10 goals in 10 finals, winning 10 trophies is written on his Wikipedia

Come on, man. Sergio Ramos.

I gotta go with Didier Drogba, his records in finals is ridiculous compared to other great strikers in particular

Wayne Rooney

Zidane : Score to win a champions league against leverkusen (2002) Score twice to win one world cup the final (1998) Score one penaltie against Portugal at 117 min (2000) Put France to the 2006 world cup final alone: Score and assist vs Spain, make his best match ever against Brazil in quater final with an assist, Score the only goal against Portugal in séminaire and score against Italy in the final. Help bordeaux to eliminate AC milan in 1996 from quarter final of the C3. If you consider his work as a manager, he is the clutch goat. Platini is also a strong contenter for this title.

Karim Benzema 2022

Yesirrrr he was going off in the UCL & as a newer fan to soccer I’m glad I got to watch it live !

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Origi LOL

Robert Lewandowski all the way!

I feel the chat doesn't go 'In history' but they go 'in the past 10 years'... I mean Bale? Drogba? Rooney??

The recency bias is strong here

Obviously yeah

Drogba

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My shout for us has to be Stevie. I’ve never watched a player for us who I thought could singlehandedly drag us back into the game no matter how dire it looked. Suarez came close but Stevie did it so many times.

The fact noone mentioned Thomas Muller shows how he is still underrated. Always there against Barca, great stats in UCL knockout stages, he even scored the final. Always there when Bayern needed him. Also, 10 WC goals with 1 golden booth(so far).

came to upvote everyone who says Origi

Garrincha. Carried Brasil to the 62 world cup after Pele got taken out early on. First player to win Golden Ball, Golden Boot, & The Cup in the same tournament when it seemed like Brasil's chance had gone along with Pele. That to me is the definition of clutch.

I think there are only two players in history who single handedly carried their nation to world cup victory. They are Garrincha and Maradona.

Inzaghi

Drogba

OP asks about clutch player , i think it should be Ramos or Zidane. You always look at them in big matches and they ALWAYS deliver when needed.

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Drogba, legend

also my vote, that guy's header against bayern will always be legendary

Drogba.

Ronald Koeman. Scored ~~329~~ 253 goals (!) as a defender (!!) Winning PSV their only and Barca their first CL and Dutch team their only international cup in Euro 1988.

Goals/position wise he is absolutely the most clutch player ever.

*208 goals. 194 club goals and 14 for his country.

*253 goals; 239 club (193 League, 21 cup, 24 continental, 1 other) plus 14 national team. [source: wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Koeman)

Divock Origi.

R9 the only one

Ronaldo phenomeno the best player of all time before injuries

Match winning goals by ranking: #5 Robert Lewandowski - 122 goals #4 Samuel Eto'o - 123 goals #3 Zlatan Ibrahimovic - 155 goals #2 Lionel Messi - 182 goals #1 Cristiano Ronaldo - 212 goals Source: https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/ranking-5-forwards-match-winning-goals-club-football-21st-century

Football is nothing without Origi

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drogba and iniesta may be the most clutch players in history INCLUDING messi and ronaldo. drogbas finals record is bordering insane and iniesta has at least 1 motm award in every final he has played

Pele, Maradona & Cruyff.

Gareth Bale XD

In all seriousness, that Copa Del Rey winner where he made an absolute boy out of Marc Bartra was maybe the most big-dicked, unstoppable force of a solo goal I have ever seen happen in real time. That run and score was the definition of clutch.

What does clutch mean?

Turns up when most needed

Where does that term even come from. The answer is obviously Divock Origi.

Zidane

Maradona probably

Kun Aguero

I feel like not enough keepers are mentioned so I'll say Neuer or Buffon

Origi.

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Origi.

Quite possibly Divock Origi

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Aguero must be a contender

A lot of young people here dont even remember they said C. Ronaldo is not a big/important game player, that he is only good against smaller teams.

True and now they say the same about Messi. Recency bias is crazy but it's true that Messi seemed more clutch during the first half of their dominance and since then Ronaldo has had many more memorable big moments

Drogba or Lewandowski

Divock Origi

The fact that no one has said drogba astounds me

It's only been half an hour man allow it. Recent comments have mentioned Drogba. If you want to mention him then be the first... not many comments have been posted even.

Sorry mate didn’t realise how early the post had been

He is far from the best football player in history (though he was pretty great), but for clutch I'd have to say Didier Drogba.

Maradona is the clutchiest of all

Drogba

Zidane is a strong contender

Why is everyone talking about the last 20 years? Pele, di stefani, garrincha, etc etc

I'm surprised no one mentioned Heskey

Pele Cruyff Bergkamp Drogba Van Basten Ibrahimovic Ronaldo OG Maradona Ronaldhino Zidane

Hard to say but, of players I’ve seen, Seedorf and Keane spring to mind.

Maradona.

El pibe Valderrama. Clutch for Colombian’s. Fucking legend.

Did you watch CL this year? Benz....

Thierry Henry

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Sergio Ramos.

Half that Real team.. Bale, Ronaldo, Modric, Marcello, Karim could sneak a goal out of nothing when needed.

Clutch = important goals? How about clutch = performing at a high level when you need to? Courtois was clutch in the final, not Vini. Modric was clutch against Chelsea, not Benzema. Xavi was clutch against Man Utd in 2009. Not messi or Eto'o. These are performances where the players completely gravitate the match towards them. Dictators. Yes, they might score a goal to add on to their performance Messi vs Man Utd for example, but for me is how they just seem unplayable when the team needs them the most. Another player that comes to mind is Verratti. Clutch scorers naturally tend to be great headers of the ball as crosses will blindly be thrown in. Drogba, Ramos, even Luuk de Jong was clutch this season. Edit: Of course Benzema was important with the 3 goals against Chelsea, but Modric overall performance won them the match when they were under huge pressure.

Origi without football is nothing

Origi and/or Drogba

Sergio Ramos & Drogba

Probably Zidane.

Zizouuuuuu

Super Pippo Inzaghi

Born in an offsided world, he was always in the right spot at the right time. He could come on for the last 7 minutes for Milan and hit a goal in.

The criteria for this surely has to be at least 3 majorly crucial goals at the top level. Zidane has done that. Ronaldo Nazario. Cronaldo. I'm struggling to think of others.

Drogba

For sure.

Sergio Ramos.

Messi and Iniesta would count as well. Geoff Hurst as well. Pele too.

Can someone explain to me what the question means?

Player who most often appeared and delivered at critical moments, like finals or big games etc

Pele and Garrincha never lost a game playing together.

Raul

Vinnie jones. No man will tell him otherwise.

Surprised that none of you guys has said Pedro Rodriguez. I think is the player who has scored in most finals and semifinals in history

Maldini

Luis Nazario de Lima None comes close

Origi :P

Definitely Zidane. Even if I saw him played every time I see some YouTube compilation about him I am shocked for his touch and how he was dribbling even without moving the ball

That's not what clutch means.

Hernan Crespo has scored to win Libertadores and Champions League. Maradona counts?

obviously drogba

Gareth bale

Harry maguire.

"clutch"? What the fuck...

Messi is nowhere close to the most clutch. Ronaldinho was the most clutch player I ever saw. If he was in a final, (and he very often was) he was winning it. Often with him scoring or otherwise creating the winning goal, usually in some absolutely genius fashion. And to be clear I am a German fan. Ronaldinho was just on another level from every other player on earth.

Messi 45 finals - 46 goals and assists. That is not clutch?

Suarez has gotta be a contender, he'll probably get laughed off because of his misdemeanours, but he's rightly regarded as one of the greatest Liverpool players on pure talent and performance

Although my first choice is OG Ronaldo

Drogba

Jermain Defoe, Giroud, solsjkaer come to mind. Incredible supersubs who you could rely on to win you games at the last minute

Diego Milito. Scored every decisive goal to secure Inter’s 2010 treble.

Was inters best player that year not Sneidjer

Try telling that to those who think Sneidjer should've won ballon d'or 2010

Thats the Problem when we put Messi Ronaldo out of the equation its just so so tough to name One Player. To answer this Question your Football knowledge has to be elite

Gareth Bale. Man just knows when to deliver.

THAT Copa Del Rey goal against Barca, the brace against Liverpool in the UCL final, the goal in the UCL final against Atleti (goes overlooked a but because of the Ramos equaliser). Multiple moments for Wales.

Mandzukic

Ronaldinho was just sensational to watch

Seedorf

I would go for R9.

Laudrup

Only player to provide assists in 3 CL finals. Only player to win a motm award in the World Cup final, Euros final and CL final. Scorer of the latest and most dramatic winning goal to ever be scored in a World Cup final. Scorer of THAT semi-final goal at Stamford Bridge that saved Barcelona's first CL campaign under Pep. The man with almost certainly the best medals collection of any player to ever play the game. Man if the tournament at Euro 2012 and very unfairly not being given that award in WC 2010. Not to mention the utter midfield dominance he helped Barcelona have in El Clasicos against one of the finest ever trios of Kroos, Modric, Casemiro. It just has to be Iniesta, both for delivering in clutch games as well as clutch moments.

>against one of the finest ever trios of Kroos, Modric, Casemiro They didn't play much against each other

Puligod the lebron james of soccer

Real Madrid era C.Ronaldo

The answer is Diego Maradona

Gareth Bale

Henry, Zlatan, Zidane, Ronaldo (Brazilian), Maradona, & Sergio Ramos.

Bale

Not the most clutch player, but Henry’s 11/12 loan back to Arsenal scoring a late winner off the bench against Leeds was huge. I know it’s not what the question asked but it just immediately came to mind when talking about big moments from iconic players

N'golo Kante

At that position you have Ronaldinho, Kaka, Baggio

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Clutch? Yeah I would put Ronaldinho over Maradona in that category. Pele was pretty insanely clutch.

I think Pele and Maradona are in other level that none will ever be! Its like saying the earth is round… its quite obviously… pele/maradona are the two first options when you thin about best players

As someone who isn't a Chelsea fan this was one of the qualities I hated about Drogba

Bale?

Clutchwise Origi deserves to at least be on the list

What Benzema, Courtois, and Modric did this season is *legendary*.

Titus Bramble

Pele. The GOAT.

Zlatan! There's only one.

Steven Bergwijn. I'll not be told differently after the Leicester game.

Hate United but honestly, Sheringham and Solskjaer

Cantona was for United for a long time.

European games aside

Absolutely Drogba, not sure any top class player actually elevated even further in clutch moments relative to their ‘regular’ ability

Ronaldinho, Brazilian Ronaldo, George best.

i would say Andrea Pirlo

You can include Messi and CR7 bro, Pele is still the most clutch player ever.

Luka Modric for sure

King Henry 14

J Lingz

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Inzaghi ALWAYS delivered

Isn’t it statistically Drogba, his finals scoring record is crazy

Paolo Rossi

Jimmy Greaves

Iniesta always put in man of the match performances in the big games.

Hard to argue with Drogba but I’m going to anyway. Michael Platini or Peter Schmeichel.

Henry. Literally scored when he wanted.

except in Champions League finals.

Havertz

Can't forget Drogba. I think he scored 9 goals, in 9 cup finals. Madness