Jamie Carragher and Thierry Henry Laud Amad’s Technical Prowess in Last-Minute Goal During Manchester Derby
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Jamie Carragher and Thierry Henry were analyzing Amad’s performance during the Manchester United vs. Manchester City game, focusing on his last-minute winning goal. Carragher was particularly impressed by the skill Amad exhibited.
Jamie Carragher said, “This is just out of this world from this young lad, Thierry.”
Initially, Thierry Henry offered some constructive criticism of Amad’s run but quickly transitioned to praising his awareness and technical ability, especially highlighting his timing and control during the critical moment.**
Thierry Henry said, “You wanted to talk about this run. He started his run really early. It was actually a poor run, initially, and he makes it too early, but the way he checks that run… That’s magnificent. He goes early, but he checks and makes sure that he wasn’t going to be offside. He was never going to be offside, because Ruben Dias was covering, but he does something very important, and this is why I always talk about. When that ball goes over his head, if you can scan back, it’s very important [that he doesn’t] carry on looking at the ball. If he looks at the ball, he will never get it. At one point, you will see, he looks at the ball, but he stops looking at it and he looks where the ball is going to bounce. That’s the only way he can get it. He’s in the air there with his other foot. To control that at the tip of the boot when he’s actually in mid-air… What you have said there about watching it. What you’re talking about, with the eye movement and going for the bounce, to roll the ball around the goalkeeper. Sensational. It was a pressure moment, the last minute of a derby.”
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