Mkhitaryan's scorpion goal wins goal of the month

Armenian
soccer star Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s scorpion
kick for Manchester United against
Sunderland A.F.C. won a landslide victory
in the Manchester United “Goal of the
Month” poll.
Armenian soccer star Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s
scorpion kick for Manchester United against
Sunderland A.F.C. won a landslide victory
in the Manchester United ‘Goal of the
Month’ poll. (Photo: Manchester United)10
The remarkable goal, which sealed a 3-1
win over Sunderland on Dec. 26, claimed 79
percent of fans’ votes on ManUtd.com, out
of a 10-goal shortlist. Two of Mkhitaryan’s
other goals— against Zorya Luhansk and
Tottenham Hotspur—came in second and
third place in the vote.
“[It was] the best goal I’ve ever scored,”
Mkhitaryan told MUTV, the soccer club’s
official channel. “I was very excited. The
first thing I did was look at the assistant
and I saw it was not ruled offside so I just
started to celebrate… I was expecting the
ball to be in front of me and then I realized
I was in front of it. As the ball was behind
me, the only thing I could do was a back
heel so I did that and I succeeded,”
Mhitaryan added.
Mkhitaryan also finished as runner-up to
Zlatan Ibrahimovic for the Manchester
United Player of the Month award.