Melbourne Victory defender Thomas Deng has been voted by the fans as scoring the best goal from Round 25 of the Hyundai A-League.
The 21-year-old took the honours thanks to his memorable volley in Victory’s entertaining 3-1 win over Western Sydney Wanderers on Saturday night.
With the match on a knife’s edge with his side leading 2-1 in the second half, Deng produced his unlikely moment of magic to light-up AAMI Park.
After great work down the left by Leroy George and Terry Antonis, the latter did superbly to float a cross to the far post.
And that’s where the Nairobi-born Deng was, timing his run to perfection before blasting a first-time volley low and hard across Vedran Janjetovic into the bottom corner of the net.
Deng celebrated wildly and his beaming smile summed up what a truly exceptional strike it was.
The goal was a standout winner, earning 59.2% of the fan vote to easily claim the Round 25 prize.
Adam Taggart’s cracking curler against Sydney FC on Thursday night was next best, securing 27.9% of the vote, with Dario Vidosic’s free-kick against the Jets third with 12.9%.
WATCH DENG’S DELIGHTFUL GOAL IN THE VIDEO ABOVE
