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Players injuring themselves while scoring: a recent history

Ryan Mason and Nathan Dyer both got injured scoring winners on Sunday, so here's some more of that kind of thing.

Robin van Persie is one of our players who injured themselves scoring
A&E: RVP (Image: Florian K)

What with Tottenham’s Ryan Mason and Leicester’s Nathan Dyer both injuring themselves scoring late winners on Sunday, we had a rummage around for footage of other recent such instances.

Please note: players injuring themselves celebrating a goal were not included for consideration. That’s another list for another day…

Robin van Persie for Arsenal v Birmingham, 2011 League Cup final

Vintage RVP, this: scorcher of a strike, niggler of an injury…

Gary Cahill for Chelsea v Barcelona, 2015

Taking a whack to the nose in one of those glorified friendly things…

Loïc Rémy for Chelsea v Maribor, 2014

A fine microcosm of the French striker’s career to date…

Nicklas Bendtner for Arsenal v Cardiff, 2014

Yes, Bendtner did score as recently as 2014…

Leon Osman for Everton v Man City, 2011

Extra marks for celebrating with the crowd when he eventually gets up…

Romelu Lukaku for Everton v West Ham, 2013

Here he is talking about the late winner on his Everton debut that he couldn’t remember…

Alvaro López for Cobreloa v Union Espanola

Not for the squeamish…

Julio Baptista for Malaga v Getafe, 2011

Worth it, frankly…