Jamie Vardy,Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane will fade to Euro 2016 as representatives of the best the Premier League has to offer and Roy Hodgson can be excused a little pride in these goalscoring richesSometimes in sport the real question is not whether something is brilliant but simply which are the most brilliant of its many very obviously brilliant parts. At which point enter Jamie Vardy’s goal on Tuesday night, that first-time shot spanked past Simon Mignolet that simply made you want to laugh out loud as it billowed the Liverpool net.
You can pick absent at the outer layers here. The decisive pass from Riyad Mahrez, or for example,wasn’t just accurate but hit with a deadening spin that made it dip and curl into Vardy’s sprint. The goal itself wasn’t the third in a 4-0 win or an early-May consolation thwack but the first of the night in a title-chasing arm-wrestle in February.
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Source: theguardian.com