Shoot!’s FA Cup Awards (Fourth Round)

Goal of the Round: Yaya Toure (Manchester City)

After a mediocre start to the season and a training ground bust-up with manager Pep Guardiola, Yaya Toure’s Manchester City career was seemingly nearing an end.

But in recent weeks he has come back into the fold and has made himself a key player for the Citizens, and he showed why by shining in the Sky Blues’ 3-0 win at Selhurst Park on Saturday.

Sam Allardyce wasn’t happy that Toure was even still on the pitch in the first-half, he was booked after a mistimed tackle on Joe Ledley in the middle of the pitch, and could’ve received a second yellow after a coming together with Joel Ward on the right wing.

But referee Mike Jones decided to keep his card in his pocket, this time.

Wisely, Toure stayed out of the limelight for the rest of the game. That was until the 93rd minute.

With the game already finished at 2-0, a rash foul on Gabriel Jesus, purely out of Palace frustration, gave Manchester City a chance to seal the game in style.

Toure did just that, in typical fashion. From about 25 yards out, he stepped up and expertly made it look easy, wrapping his right boot around the ball and whipping it over the Palace wall and into the top right corner of Wayne Hennessey’s goal.

It’s been highlighted on social media recently that the Welsh ‘keeper seems to be on the receiving end of all great goals: Dele Alli’s brilliant volley, Dimitri Payet’s jaw-dropping free-kick, Andy Carroll’s brilliant overhead kick, Olivier Giroud’s wonderful scorpion kick and more…

So I guess that’s another to the collection!