5 of the best footballers and their one glaring weakness

#4 Manuel Neuer – Concentration

Neuer lapses a lot for someone of his calibre

Manuel Neuer is the banter goalie of our era. This is a guy that spends most of his time chilling nearer to the centre-circle than his own box and makes some of the best saves one could ever have the privilege to see.

For example, last season in the Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo received a great ball from the left from Karim Benzema. The Portuguese took one touch to control it and go to the left of Neuer before shooting it towards the right-side of the German keeper with his very next touch.

Now, the former Schalke man was already moving towards his left when the ball was blazing past his right, but somehow managed to block the ball by extending his right arm. The sheer audacity of the save lies in the fact that the German didn’t move a muscle apart from his right arm and the ball thundered off his hands as if it hit some kind of a wall.

And it was shot by Cristiano Ronaldo, the man who could actually let NASA use his feet as space-shuttle launchers and save billions of dollars in the process.

But there’s another side of Neuer that almost always pops of every now and then. Bayern are so dominating in the Bundesliga that Neuer could basically take a pillow and blanket and sleep on the pitch in front of the goal.

And sometimes he really does that, mentally at least. His lack of concentration often makes him the centre of some of the most hilarious mistakes as you can see in the video below.