McGree’s spectacle moment

• Riley McGree is nominated for a FIFA Puskás Award
• Australian netted marvellous scorpion flog for Newcastle Jets in Apr 2018
• Is it a best idea of 2018? Vote now for your favourite!

Riley McGree has always been a bit special. Called into Australia’s inhabitant group patrol only 6 weeks after creation his initial start in comparison football, a aggressive midfielder displayed peculiar flashes of singular class.

But nobody ever approaching that ‘Did it unequivocally happen?’ impulse final Apr when McGree – still a teen – constructed a singular jaw-dropping idea that had amicable media abuzz opposite a world.

The context only combined serve to a special inlet of a goal. After a angel story assign to a A-League semi-final, outsiders Newcastle Jets seemed to be pang a sip of theatre trepidation in a club’s biggest compare on home dirt for during slightest a decade. An gifted Melbourne City led 1-0 with a Jets clearly out of aggressive ideas as a second half wore on.

Then came a moment. McGree exchanged passes with team-mates on a corner of a chastisement area and within a blink of an eye a ball, roughly inexplicably, was unexpected looping over a stranded goalkeeper with apparent pinpoint precision.

With a pass delivered waist-high and somewhat behind him, McGree had instinctively flicked his leg during a round achieving a ideal scorpion flog to secure an unusual momentum-changing equaliser and permitting a Jets to eventually overcome 2-1.

“You try anything unequivocally and if it pays off, good done,” a 19-year-old said. “If it doesn’t, have another go. It is a bit instinctive. You have to have a bit of improvisation.”

Quirkily, McGree, who was on loan from Club Brugge during a time, now plays for a unequivocally bar he scored his famous idea opposite – Melbourne City.

“It [the scorpion kick] was unequivocally a large prominence in my career in so distant as a approach it was scored and what it did for a Jets, though we didn’t unequivocally let all a courtesy impact me too most and attempted to take it in my stride.”

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