Best Soccer Games: Bend It, Blast It, Bury It

Browser soccer knows its strengths and plays to them: not the ninety-minute simulation, but the ninety-second moments the simulation builds toward. The free kick with the wall set. The fifth penalty with everything level. The absurd, big-headed international where a bicycle kick is a reasonable defensive strategy. This collection gathers the soccer shelf plus the finest football fixtures hiding in our sports category, and ranks the lot.

Three of the four games we've annotated below are about a single kick and its consequences — which is only fair, since that's where soccer keeps its drama. Bring a strong nerve for the shootouts; the keepers on this site have read your scouting report.