Chiellini slips – internet erupts with meme mockery

Date: 22nd April 2015 at 11:30pm
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While largely uneventful, Juventus’s Champions League quarter-final second leg against Monaco, which ended 0-0, was notable for an incident involving Giorgio Chiellini which spread like wildfire on the internet.

With Monaco’s Joao Moutinho poised to go clear on goal after the Italian lost his footing, he subsequently clawed the ball back to safety with his hand on his descent.

In typical fashion, within secondsĀ the internet had served up a host of memes mocking the slip, gathering hundreds of Twitter retweets in the process.

Here are some of the best:

Some of Chiellini’s performances this season have been deserving of a Superman cape, but his flying attempt is the best reason yet.

Only the best basketball stars can leap to block a Lebron James dunk, but internet jokers have launched Chiellini into uncharted territory.

Chiellini’s slip transported him back to 2012, taking the place of Gianluigi Buffon to claw out Sulley Muntari’sĀ goal that never was in a fiery clash at the San Siro.

Last but not least, the world of Twitter gave Chiellini the treatment of another viral phenomenon, the Randy Orton RKO wrestling move.

 

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