ONLY CRISTIANO PIPS PAYET...
HERE we are again talking about yet another stunning Dimitri Payet free-kick. His one for France last week was spectacular but the strike against Crystal Palace on Saturday was outrageous. The flight of the ball was so high and the dip was venomous. I don’t know how you stop that. He went for the keeper’s side and the keeper was still nowhere near it. We’ve had some incredible set-piece specialists in the Premier League — David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, Yaya Toure and now Payet (right). But was this the best I’ve seen? Almost. Ronaldo’s incredible strike against Portsmouth in January 2008 just pips it. He changed the way people hit the ball — all power and swerve — and when he scored all I could think was: ‘How on earth has he done that?’