Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho was getting an earful from assistant coach Benni McCarthy about attempting overhead kicks in training just the day before scoring one of the goals of the season against Everton on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n Garnacho opened the scoring in the\u00a03-0 win over the Toffees\u00a0at Goodison Park in spectacular fashion after just three minutes, connecting with Diogo Dalot\u2019s deep cross towards the far post.<\/p>\n The 19-year-old went airborne to reach the ball that was otherwise flying past, hooking his foot around and sending it flying into the top corner of Jordan Pickford\u2019s net.<\/p>\n He might never score a better goal, but the fact it went in might embolden Garnacho to try it even more often in training. That\u2019s because he was practising the skill as recently as the day before the game, albeit to the frustration of\u00a0United\u00a0coach McCarthy.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be honest, [on Saturday] the forwards were training with Benni McCarthy and he was complaining about Garnacho: \u2018He doesn\u2019t head the ball\u2026back post, you just want to do bicycle kicks!’\u201d Dalot revealed to the Premier League\u2019s\u00a0Matchday Live<\/em>\u00a0show.<\/p>\n \u201cHe showed [McCarthy] that he can do it and it was fantastic for him,\u201d the full-back joked.<\/p>\n Alejandro Garnacho took flight at Goodison Park \/ Shaun Botterill\/GettyImages<\/p>\n Although it didn\u2019t mean quite as much as Wayne Rooney\u2019s iconic winner in a 2011 Manchester derby, the strike was cleaner \u2013\u00a0Rooney famously \u2018shinned\u2019 his\u00a0\u2013 making Garnacho\u2019s a technically better goal.<\/p>\n Ex-United captain Gary Neville was covering the game as a co-commentator for Sky Sports and\u00a0admitted afterwards: \u201cI\u2019ve not seen a goal as good as that from an overhead kick.<\/p>\n \u201cI was there the day that Rooney scored against Manchester City and that was an amazing goal at that point in the game. Today, I just felt like that was something I\u2019d not seen before. What struck me is the fact that he had to move away [from the goal to reach the ball]. He moves his feet quite quickly and all of a sudden just throws himself in the air.<\/p>\n \u201cI played football at a professional level for a long time [but] I can\u2019t do that \u2013 and I\u2019m not talking about the overhead kick \u2013 actually getting into the air to make contact with the ball. I\u2019d break my neck and most players wouldn\u2019t know how to do that. That\u2019s gymnastics, not football.\u201d<\/p>\n
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