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In One Shot: Mkhitaryan’s beautiful goal against Buffon


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These days Henrikh Mkhitaryan shows magic and makes history in England. He shone in the Armenia national team too, scoring beautiful goals in several important meetings.

In this issue of Mediamax Sport’s In One Shoot series, we tell about the goal Mkhitaryan scored in 2014 World Cup qualifying game between Armenia and Italy.

On 12 October 2012, Armenian team hosted Italy at Hrazdan Stadium. The people in Armenia felt high interest to the game against the Italian team that brought an all-star squad to Yerevan: Gianluigi Buffon, Andrea Pirlo, Sebastian Giovinco, Daniele De Rossi, Leonardo Bonucci. The match was even organized at Hrazdan Stadium to fit more viewers.

The guests scored as soon as at the 11th minute when Pirlo realized the penalty kick. However, Vardan Minasyan’s men managed to equalize in the first half.

At the 27th minute, Mkhitaryan received the ball in the central part of the pitch, dropped off the Italian defenders and scored a beautiful goal against Buffon.

Mkhitaryan was affected himself by the goal that gave the fans moments of pure joy.

“I felt wonderful after that goal. It’s a big happiness to score like that. I only regret that it wasn’t enough to bring us victory. We lost that game, but we played well and we could have won if we used other goal chances we had,” the player said.

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