UPDATE: We did it, fam.
Still bummed we didn’t get it over 50 percent, but a 14-point gap seems more appropriate. pic.twitter.com/EF1riPSNe4
— Sounder At Heart (@sounderatheart) April 13, 2017
Nicolas Lodeiro scored one of the most amazing goals in MLS this season. In case you somehow forgot in the frustration over the ultimate result, let me remind you: Lodeiro took Clint Dempsey’s blocked free kick out of the air on the outside of his left boot, somehow threaded it through a wall of three defenders standing just a couple feet away and through a sea of deeper defenders and kissed it off the inside of the far post. Right now, it’s probably the most impressive goal anyone has scored in MLS, if we’re simply basing it on degree of difficulty.
As it should be, Lodeiro’s strike is currently leading the Goal of the Week contest. What’s ridiculous is that it’s only beating Darlington Nagbe’s completely run-of-the-mill strike by a few percentage points. Watch this and tell me that’s not a gross miscarriage of justice:
Nico & Nagbe are locked in a tight one.
— Major League Soccer (@MLS) April 12, 2017
Get those #ATTGotW votes in: https://t.co/nH4Cx5jkJW pic.twitter.com/P0YzXrRUSF
NOTE: Don’t follow the link above, follow this. For some reason, the link above won’t let you vote.
We haven’t done as many of these types of posts recently, but Lodeiro’s strike was just so good. It should be winning in a landslide. Let’s make it happen.