I don't recall him getting attacked for the celebration
of his scorpion kick.
Here is Henrikh Mkhitaryan's goal v Sunderland below, a beaut
of a scorpion kick from Manchester United's Armenian player in their Boxing Day clash on 26 December, 2016.
Not exact matches
What with a doctor dragged screaming and
kicking off a plane, another person in first class threatened with handcuffs if he didn't leave his seat for someone
of «higher priority,» or the man reportedly stung by a
scorpion that fell on him from an overhead bin.
The
scorpion kicking Frenchman is on a red hot streak in front
of goal at the moment and if Arsenal are to make a fist
of this title challenge we will need him to keep it up.
The improvised
scorpion kick finish from the Frenchman may well end up being the Premier League goal
of the season as the pundits agreed that it was a more difficult and better finish than the
scorpion kick by ythe Manchester United star Henrikh Mkhitaryan against Sunderland a few days ago.
I remember describing one
of those shots to someone years ago but I didn't know they called it a
scorpion kick (I had a difficult time describing what I saw), the one I seen didn't go in as it thumped back off the crossbar, was watching Brazilian football at the time and it certainly left a mark on me.
The Frenchman though has still made a big impact as a supersub and has scored five EPL goals despite his limited game time, and
of course he scored that fantastic
Scorpion kick against Palace yesterday.
A red card for Francis added to the hope and Arsenal gave it everything and continued to threaten and in the second
of six injury time minutes the
scorpion kick hero and late goal specialist Giroud heaed us level, almost unbelievably.
The Armenian forward won December's Premier League Goal
of the Month award for a spectacular acrobatic
scorpion kick, but failed to be selected for the coveted award.
But the French international (who keeps Lacazette on the bench for his country) scored a famous amazing
Scorpion Kick last year against Crystal Palace which has been declared as the top most skillful goal
of the whole year.
Arsene Wenger has witnessed the likes
of Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp finding the back
of the net but the manager insists that Olivier Giroud's
scorpion kick is the best Arsenal goal he's seen as Arsenal manager.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan picked up the goal
of the season gong for his
scorpion kick effort against Sunderland, while Antonio Valencia landed the Players» Player
of the Season award.
When you look past the unbelievable
scorpion kick goal last season and his admittedly crucial goal in the Europa League final, the contribution
of Mkhitaryan in big games, in particular, has to be put under the microscope.
When Mohamed Elneny left for the Africa Cup
of Nations on January 2, Arsenal had just beaten Crystal Palace 2 - 0, with Olivier Giroud's
scorpion -
kick goal the talk
of football.
The France striker received the award named in honour
of Hungary great Ferenc Puskas for a spectacular «
scorpion -
kick» against Crystal Palace in January.
The hosts dominated the start
of the second half, Aaron Ramsey first seeing a volley blocked by Giroud before firing a
scorpion kick fractionally over.
The movie
kicks off with the story
of the
Scorpion King (WWF's The Rock), who is attempting to conquer the world.
We like to think
of him as the
Scorpion of the series, with the perfect blend
of speed and power attacks to
kick seasoned players» asses without breaking much
of a sweat.
While
Scorpion impaled enemies with his trademark spear, Ryu's arsenal
of hadoukens, hurricane
kicks, and dragon punches left nearly all contenders unconscious and seeing stars.