Manchester City were crowned champions of Europe for the first time in their history on Saturday evening after beating Inter Milan 1-0 in the Champions League final in Istanbul.
Scorpion kicks and 40-yard lobs - how Man City's latest first-teamer caught the eye of Pep Guardiola
25.05.2023 - 11:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
"It was instinct. I've seen the ball come into me and thought it was the right thing to do in that moment. It came off and we won the game."
If you hadn't seen the goal Nico O'Reilly was describing, you would expect a run-of-the-mill finish, maybe something a little bit impressive, but nothing too extravagant.
So it's probably a reflection on O'Reilly's laid-back demeanour that he was reflecting on his outrageous scorpion kick from a tight angle in the 94th minute to win the game for Manchester City last month and keep their U18 Premier League title challenge on track. Seven days later, after seeing his wonder goal go viral, he sent City fans wild again with a 40-yard lob in a Manchester derby victory. With both wins, City went on to win their division.
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"I saw the 'keeper off his line and tried it and it came off," he said this time of the goal against United, in another contender for understatement of the season.
While O'Reilly didn't pay too much attention to the online hype around his two spectacular strikes, and wasn't giving any thought to calls for a Puskas Award nomination, he did expand a little on his favourite goal of the pair: "The scorpion kick, it's not something you see all the time. With the United one, it's hard to pull off, you need the confidence to do that. But definitely the scorpion one."
Even Pep Guardiola made a point of congratulating O'Reilly on his two impressive goals when the forward was called up to first-team training shortly after, along with a number of the senior members in the squad. O'Reilly's head coach Ben Wilkinson, though, had a slightly different assessment of the scorpion kick winner.
"If we gave him 100
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