Ten years ago today, Pajtim Kasami scored one of the Premier League's greatest goals when Fulham travelled to Crystal Palace during the 2013/14 season.
The most impossible of goals. 🤯
— Fulham Football Club (@FulhamFC) October 21, 2023
It's been ten years since @PajtimKasami scored one of the best the @premierleague has ever seen!
The Swiss midfielder's unbelievable chest and volley set Fulham on their way to a 4-1 win at Selhurst Park in October 2013, and would also be nominated for the FIFA Puskas award.
Several Fulham players from that match, including Kasami, shared their memories of that spectacular strike on the club's official website.
Pajtim Kasami: “I saw Sascha Riether had the ball and I saw the space which the coach always told me to attack if the full-back had the ball. I attacked the space, he chipped the ball perfectly, I took it on my chest and then on my right foot, and unbelievably it went directly in the top corner on the left side.
"It was just instinct. You don’t even have seconds to think about it, you just instantly think what's the best thing to do. It’s only after the game when you see it that you realise what a goal it was.”
Dimitar Berbatov: “That was an unbelievable goal. The pass is going to no man’s land, so I’m just jogging and thinking, ‘I’ve not got anything to run for because he’s not going to do anything with the ball.’ And then he controls it – and I’m still not thinking he’s going to do anything special – and he shoots right away.
"Then I’m like, ‘f***, it’s going in!’ I was clapping that goal inside, because that was something special.”
Philippe Senderos: “Ten years, bloody hell… I was quite far back, but I had a great angle of it from behind. It was impressive. The ball comes up to him, he takes it on his chest while he’s running, and just hits across it. It was an unbelievable goal. It's definitely one of the best I’ve seen."
Steve Sidwell: "Watching that Kasami goal, when he put that in, I’ve not seen a better goal live. At all. Ever!"