Cambridge United CB Michael Morrison, 35, produces a incredible solo goal from the halfway line, dribbling past five Shrewsbury Town players.
The gone viral moment sees him score his first U’s goal in over 16 years and it was well worth the wait as he glided past five players, but unfortunately he was left frustrated it wasn’t enough for the win.
As can be seen in the video below, Morrison made his way forward from just inside the Shrewsbury half and beat past those who tried to reclaim the ball before slotting home.
Nothing to see here, just 35-year-old Cambridge CB Michael Morrison dribbling from close to halfway and beating 5 men on his way to scoring against Shrewsbury yesterday.
Lovely stuff.pic.twitter.com/eKjIKhnOSq
— HLTCO (@HLTCO) October 15, 2023
“I was delighted to score, I just carried on running and it opened up,” Morrison told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
“I should have scored in the first half as well and I’ve had (other) chances over the last six or seven months.
“To get that off my back – hopefully I can get a few more now, but probably with my head rather than running through and slotting it in.”
Morrison had gone without scoring in a league game since doing so for Reading in April 2022.
When questioned whether he had ever scored a goal as good as the one against Shrewsbury, he replied: “I think some Reading fans will claim I have, once at Bristol City.”
Despite his moment of individual brilliance, Morrison expressed being disappointed that his team failed to hang onto their lead, with the League One fixture ending in the “anti climax” of a 1-1 draw.
He went on to say: “We were counting down the clock with five minutes to go, I thought we looked quite comfortable and it was a goal out of nothing. That’s what happens when they’re tight games.
“It feels like two points lost. I think we were a little disconnected and I think there was a foul on myself in the build-up, it was a really scrappy goal to concede and I think that’s really disappointing on our part, at least make them work for it – it was a little bit too easy.”
Head coach Mark Bonner said Morrison’s goal “deserved” to be a match-winner: “I’m not sure how many chances we had after going 1-0 up. We became a bit too loose with the ball and turned it over too quickly when we could have tried to get some control of it.
“And then the goal… we had enough bodies there to clear the ball, but we don’t – 99 times out of 100 we defend that properly, but we don’t and it’s cost us two points.”
“It’s the difference between 10th and 17th in the league, that,” Bonner said on Taylor Perry netting two minutes from the end to secure Shrewsbury a point. “That’s how close the table is. Obviously it can change very quickly but that’s a big difference for us. We could have been looking at something very, very different.
“It’s not a great game by any stretch of the imagination and the goal we concede at the end is a moment we would defend a hundred times. It’s an easy moment to defend but we don’t defend it well enough. Then we get punished and we drop two points.
“If you look at the balance of the game, a draw’s probably the right result but when you’re 1-0 up with a few minutes to go you’ve got to get the maximum. So we’re kicking ourselves because the moment that we concede the goal is a really poor situation for us and we should take the points.
“At times today it was a bit too slow and we looked a little bit bruised by a couple of bad results recently. We’ve got to find that confidence to just go and play.”
Cambridge have now gone six league games without a victory and now place 17th in the League One table going into next Saturday’s trip to bottom side Cheltenham Town, who have only scored one in the league this season.
Shrewsbury boss Matt Taylor said: “I’m pleased that we scored a goal so late in the game. I’m pleased that the players showed a togetherness to come back into a game where I felt a point was a fair result.
“I’m pleased for the players. What they’ve done today is they’ve come back into a game and looked really strong in the last five or six minutes.
“I felt we were good today, just that one error where their centre-back runs through all of our players and passes the ball into the back of the net. But we responded really well to that.
“Things, I believe, are getting better. A month ago we probably wouldn’t have got a point. What they’ve showed together was a huge togetherness to get a point.
“If we’d have lost here it would have been a travesty because we deserved at least a point out of that game today.”
Twitter users reacted after the Cambridge CB, 35, produces an incredible solo goal from halfway line dribbling past five Shrewsbury players…
@lee_sifford: The commitment of the Shrewsbury no.11 is laughable… if I was their Manager he’d have been subbed straight away
@pauljam19759849: This is brilliant 👏👏
@ChesnoidGaming: Aaaand October goal of the month competition is closed 😂
@JanoidLCFC: Loved him at Leicester!
@hallsy7: Great goal, great to see his family celebrating too
@_tomrip: Criminal that this wasn’t a winning goal
@TonyHeath15: What a goal.
@milkyreyno: That’s what we are capable of now come on and push out of this form
@Houses456: Still got a bit 😳🔥
@planespotter19: Shows up our totally incompetent forwards…
@TheSirRobotto: Ex-Leicester lad loving life back at Cambridge.
@kennedy107: Left Back scored a Worldy, can see meself in the crowd 😁
@missywolland: Goal of the Season and well deserved ⚽️💛🖤
@leftwardcargos: Still properly disgraceful that this goal didn’t win the game
@doodlebuggy1234: Not bad for a 35 year old CB 😉😉
@Tom_K_doctor: Off the scale!
Sounds familiar https://t.co/aov38DPLkT pic.twitter.com/udCbZhXOcq
— Jack Buchanan (@jack_buchanan_) October 15, 2023
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