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Football: Under the flood, Plymouth may have scored the funniest and "most English" goal of the year

2021-10-20T08:46:47.770Z


The English third division team of Plymouth Argile has been making social media laugh since Tuesday night with a goal as unlikely as


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This Tuesday evening, while PSG struggled to beat Leipzig, or Benzema's Real Madrid crushed Shakhtar Donetsk, the Plymouth Argyle team performed a home recital against the Bolton Wanderers, former residents of the elite.

A 3-0 victory that ended with a goal as improbable as it is ridiculous.

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The Greens were comfortably leading 2-0 when torrential waters began to hit Home Park.

The opportunity for the premises to trap one last time their opponents who lost the ball on an innocuous pass in defense, the ball having been stopped dead for the waterlogged lawn.

Thirteen seconds later, Plymouth will score a third goal without us really knowing how they managed to push the ball home as nothing seemed to be under control in this open-air swimming pool.

Impossible ball handling, hazardous goalkeeper exit… Pure football hurray.

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NEW: A scrappy goal scored by Plymouth tonight pic.twitter.com/g6yCHyC5Hv

- Football For All (@FootballlForAll) October 19, 2021

To see a truly technical gesture in this action, you have to wait for the celebration.

The Plymouth forwards performed superb stomach slides before mimicking the front crawl swim in front of their home crowd.

“Very English goal last night - and a magnificent celebration!

Long live the rain!

», Commented on Twitter Darren Tulett, the famous football specialist across the Channel.

Source: leparis

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