Bend it like Beckham, indeed
After more than 98 minutes of play, the Byron Nelson (Trophy Club, Texas) and Allen (Texas) girls soccer teams were knotted at one goal a piece in double overtime of their bi-distict playoff match.
The game looked destined for a shootout, until Byron Nelson's Jeyci Lopex notched what might be the shot of the year. Even she was shocked as the ball hooked into the top left corner of the goal.
MY GOAL WAS JUST FEATURED ON CHANNEL 8'S HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SPECIAL pic.twitter.com/BvKWx9LZgH
— jc (@JeyciAmber10) March 30, 2015
Local reporter Matt Welsh captured the moment for the Allen American:
Inside the final two minutes of the second overtime, Lopez initiated a corner kick that was at first cleared away by the Allen defense. However, the ball rolled back into the crosshairs of Lopez, who from roughly 30 yards out, corralled the ball, spun around and rifled off a shot that floated above all players and snuck inside the upper left corner of the goal for the go-ahead 2-1 score with 1:37 remaining in the match.
“Anybody who saw it, that was absolutely just a wonder goal,” Allen coach Kevin Albury said. “I’ve not seen a shot like that in a long, long time … that was a one-in-a-million shot.”
S/o @JeyciAmber10 !! pic.twitter.com/ojQReGfzHs
— ByronSportPictures (@ByronSportpic) March 27, 2015
“There was no way. I could have had all three goalies in there, and they couldn’t have stopped that,” Albury said.
It was a tremendous shot, sending the Byron Nelson team on to the next round of the state playoffs.