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The striker scored twice but his second goal has been hogging the headlines. It has been described as a cheat goal with resemblance to football video-games in which cheat codes can throw up unbelievable moves.
Martins had scored the opening goal of the match with a left-footed shot from close range after connecting Brad Evans' cross sweetly.
If the first of his two goals was sweetly struck, the second was not just not only a clear candidate for MLS goal of the season, but a special finish that left the crowd inside the Providence Park enthralled.
The former Inter Milan man defied the odds and should have easily been dispossessed at least six or seven times before he scored. Instead he waltzed his way through the defence of the Timbers, did a one-two with Gonzalo Pineda and still stumbled his way through a forest of legs and towards his opponents' goal and finished off with a calm chip over Portland Timbers goalkeeper, Donovan Ricketts.
According to Brooks Pecks, who blogs Dirty Tackle on Yahoo, Martins "must have used an invincibility code because nothing was going to stop him from scoring."
However, British newspaper, The Guardian, did not know whether to describe Martins' move in the build-up to the much-talked about goal as a "dribble or stumble."
But 101greatgoals.com known for capturing some of football's great goals simply stated that "the ex-Magpie (Martins) bulldozed his way past six Portland players before the Nigerian produced a cool finish into the net."
So far this season in the MLS, Martins has scored 10 goals and helped Seattle Sounders with eight assists in 21 appearances.
By SuperSports
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