Riley McGree scores his stunner against Melbourne City.Credit:AAP
''He’ll never score a goal like that ever again in his life. It’s behind him isn’t it. He just sticks a leg out and it goes in the back of the net. That’s football,"Joyce said.
Dario Vidosic,the City midfielder,said the goal was''freakish''but no one in the stadium,or those millions around the world who have now seen it replayed countless times on social media,will care.
It was fantastic,it was fanciful,it was fabulous – indeed,it will become the stuff of legend in McGree's life from here-on in,even if the youngster himself admitted that it was a trifle lucky.
''I did get a bit lucky,but I had the momentum going forward,I just happened to swing my leg at it and it went in. Definitely a bit of fluke I think,but you’ve gotta try it to get it.”
McGree sees his shot into the net.Credit:AAP
Social media went into meltdown,as might be expected,while many highly credentialed former players and pundits have labelled it the best goal ever seen in the A-League.
Still more are claiming it should get the Puskas Award for best goal of the season scored anywhere in the world by a male or female.
It will be of scant consolation to a disappointed City that it took a freakish strike and a defensive error for the Jets to get the two goals that won the game,but on the balance of the 90 minutes the hosts deserved their grand final spot.