Micky van de Ven ran the length of the pitch to score one of the great Champions League goals this week, but where does it rank among the competition’s longest such runs?
On Tuesday night at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, something extraordinary happened.
No, we’re not just talking about Tottenham winning a match at home, although they did record their biggest margin of victory under Thomas Frank, scored all four goals in open play and did so despite the fact they’d had a man sent off with the score at 2-0 and more than a third of the game remaining.
“It was a game we completely controlled from minute one,” Frank said afterwards, which isn’t something he has been able to say very much at his new club.
But Spurs doubling their lead with 10 men to win a Champions League encounter with FC Copenhagen 4-0 on home soil, where they have struggled for good results and performances of late, wasn’t the most remarkable element of this game.
Instead, it was a single moment when the clock read 63:38. Spurs were two goals to the good but a man down, and Copenhagen were looking for a way back into the game. João Palhinha nudged former Southampton forward Mohamed Elyounoussi off the ball and laid it off a single yard to centre-back Micky van de Ven on the edge of his own penalty area.
Everything about the game at that point screamed for Van de Ven to play it safe. His team had a two-goal lead that could easily be made to feel quite brittle given they were also a man down, and Spurs needed to prioritise protecting their lead. A simple pass to left-back Destiny Udogie (top right of the below image) was very much on.
But Van de Ven got his head down and charged forward, fully confident in his ability to run his way out of trouble. He recorded the highest top speed of any player in the Premier League last season (37.1 km/h), and he is also pretty strong. Once he gets going, he can be difficult to stop, as Copenhagen would soon find out.
A few seconds later, he was well clear of danger, but he was surrounded by five opponents and he had only one teammate – striker Randal Kolo Muani – ahead of him.
Then, with a quick shift of his feet, he skipped past the one remaining obstacle between him and the Copenhagen goalkeeper, and he was away.
By this point, the crowd had realised a goal was possible. Everyone was on their feet, and Van de Ven still had half the pitch to run into.
It’s important to note the role of Kolo Muani, who didn’t even get close to touching the ball at any point, but without him, the goal may well not have happened.
That’s because Copenhagen centre-back Pantelis Hatzidiakos wasn’t able to engage Van de Ven as he would have left Kolo Muani a clear run at goal. Udogie (top left of the below image), meanwhile, had his hands on his head in disbelief at what he was witnessing.
Hatzidiakos may have known about what Van de Ven has done before, so he could have foreseen the Netherlands international looking for a pass.
In August and September 2024, Van de Ven recorded two of the top five longest assist-ending carries on record (since 2015-16) in a Premier League game. On those occasions, he ran 60.4 metres to set up Son Heung-min against Everton and 56.1m to tee up Brennan Johnson against Manchester United.
Whatever the reason, Hatzidiakos hesitated, and by the time he’d changed his mind, it was too late. Elyounoussi had tracked Van de Ven all the way, desperate to make up for giving the ball away, but despite doing pretty well to keep up, he couldn’t stop him.
Van de Ven charged into the Copenhagen box and finished like a seasoned centre-forward (he is Tottenham’s top scorer this season, so maybe that was to be expected) to score one of the great Champions League goals.
UK readers can relive the goal below:
OH MY WORD MICKY VAN DE VEN Incredible goal by the Spurs centre half, as he runs the full length of the pitch before a fantastic finish past Kotarsi – INCREDIBLE GOAL!Watch live on @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK pic.twitter.com/txG6v8s8jH
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) November 4, 2025In the 10 seconds between taking his first touch and scoring, Van de Ven ran 67.7m with the ball. It is the longest goal-ending carry by any player in Opta’s record books in a Champions League game (since 2015-16), overtaking Vinícius Júnior’s 64.9m run to score for Real Madrid against Borussia Dortmund in October 2024.
Comparisons have naturally been made with an astoundingly similar goal scored at the same ground, in the same goal, almost six years ago by the now-departed Spurs legend Son. The two players picked up the ball in incredibly similar positions before running the length of the pitch to score.
They're the same picture. pic.twitter.com/dh2zkTa30C
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) November 4, 2025Son’s goal, scored against Burnley on 7 December 2019 and the winner of that year’s Puskás Award, required a run of 72.3m with the ball before he scored.
That is almost five metres longer than Van de Ven’s goal, in part because it was a more winding run – and Van de Ven’s was more direct – but also because Son ran closer to goal before finishing.
Son’s remains the third-longest carry ending in a goal recorded (since 2015-16) in a Premier League game.
The longest goal-ending carry ever recorded in the Premier League was scored by former Spurs man Andros Townsend for Crystal Palace against West Brom, when he ran an incredible 78.9m with the ball before scoring in March 2017. Townsend didn’t even have the energy to celebrate his goal, instead just collapsing to the floor.
Van de Ven has written his name into the Champions League history books, but given he has previous when it comes to running the length of the pitch with the ball, this might not be the last time we see him do something like this.
The Longest Goal-Ending Carries in the Champions League
*since 2015-16; data as of 5 November 2025
Micky van de Ven – 67.7m, Tottenham vs FC Copenhagen, November 2025 Vinícius Júnior – 64.9m, Real Madrid vs Borussia Dortmund, October 2024 Rafael Leão – 62.6m, Milan vs Dinamo Zagreb, October 2022 Karim Adeyemi – 62.1m, Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea, February 2023 Marco Asensio – 60.8m, Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich, April 2017 Loïs Openda – 57.8m, RB Leipzig vs Manchester City, November 2023 Brais Méndez – 55.4m, Real Sociedad vs Red Bull Salzburg, October 2023 Davide Zappacosta – 55.3m, Chelsea vs Qarabag, September 2017 Ousmane Dembélé – 51.5m, Barcelona vs Tottenham, December 2018 José Izquierdo – 47.1m, Club Brugge vs Leicester, November 2016Subscribe to our football newsletter to receive exclusive weekly content. You should also follow our social accounts over on X, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.
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