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This post is about players who scored only once for a specific team, or in a specific league. This is not a list of players who scored once in their entire career as even Mascherano, who has more own goals than goals, has scored 2 goals in his career. Those players who have scored once under the criteria we mentioned, had their goals go on to be written in history.

5- Laurent Blanc

Laurent Blanc has scored only one goal in the Premier League for Manchester United in a Two-years stay. This goal wasn't solely responsible for the Premier League title Manchester United went on to lift. However, the story that goes with it is what puts into the books of history.

“Lads, it's Tottenham”, if you are a follower of Premier League history then you'd know what that sentence refers to you. Those were the words said by Sir Alex during the halftime break after Manchester United were 3-0 down to Tottenham. It wasn't a scream or a shoe throw, it was a simple, calm “Lads, it's Tottenham”. As in, you're the ones complicating it for yourselves.

In the second half, Manchester United scored within four minutes but still needed a goal to keep the spirits up. That goal was a header by Laurent Blanc in the 58th minute. Manchester United went to make a comeback and win 5-3 against Tottenham. Blanc had a total of four goals for Manchester United, 3 in the Champions League, and only one in the Premier League, the one he scored against Tottenham.

After that the sentence “Lads, it's Tottenham” became a famous one for Manchester United supports.

4- Shigeyoshi Mochizuki

During his 20 years, long senior career Shigeyoshi Mochizuki scored 19 goals in total from the midfield. 18 of those were with clubs he played within the Japanese league. His 19th goal, however, he scored that in 2000 in the AFC Asian Cup final against Saudi Arabia. That goal was the only goal in the game and gave Japan its second AFC Asian Cup final win.

3- Eder

In his career with Portugal, Eder scored 5 goals in 35 matches. 4 of those goals were in friendlies. The fifth was a miraculous goal that gave Portugal the 2016 Euro title. Eder's only official goal brought Portugal its only silverware in major tournaments also one of two official titles, along with UEFA Nations League. This goal, in a very lackluster career, makes it seem like Eder was born only to win Portugal their Euro 2016 title.

2- Juliano Belletti

This player was the inspiration behind this entire post. Belletti played for Barcelona for 3 years, he played well under Rijkaard, making a total of 102 appearances with only one goal. Belletti's goal was Barcelona's winner against Arsenal in the 2006 Champions League final.

1- Patrik Andersson

Many German media outlets described this goal as the goal that broke the hearts of millions as it stole the title for Schalke, the dubbed "Champions of Hearts". In the last game in the Bundesliga 2000-01 season, Bayern Munich needed a draw to win the title in their game against Hamburg as Schalke have done their part and won their game. In the 90th minute, Hamburg scored what would have been the winner.

In injury time, Bayern had one last attempt to score the draw and save their season. A miscommunication between Hamburg players led to an indirect free-kick inside the box. Up stepped Patrik Andersson, receiving a pass that he scored into Hamburg's net. A last-minute goal that brought Bayern Munich the league title, that was Patrik Andersson's only goal for Bayern Munich. It was the most dramatic goal in Bundesliga history.

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Those are my picks, do you have any other picks I should have added to the list? Write them in the comment section below. Thank you for reading.