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Jeremy Menez rounds Parma goalkeeper to score clever backheel

Milan and Parma turned off defending and played a delightfully absurd match that produced a truly wonderful goal from Jeremy Menez. With Milan up 4-3 in the 78th minute, Menez, who had already scored from the penalty spot, ran down a ball near the endline at the edge of the six-yard box, passed it around the keeper to himself and as he ran across the face of goal, he backheeled it in.

It was an excellent bit of creativity that reminds us why Menez was once compared to Zidane and it extended Milan's lead to two goals. A Mattia De Sciglio own goal from distance in the 89th minute gave Parma a bit of hope, but Milan held on for the full three points.

Here's the own goal to illustrate just how nutty this game was...