Crystal Palace winger Andros Townsend had been awarded the Premier League’s Carling Goal of the Month award for March for his impressive, sensational 80-yard solo effort against West Bromwich Albion.
The winner of the prize was decided by a panel of experts and Premier League fans who voted online, and their votes saw Townsend beat off competition from Fernando Llorente, Eden Hazard, Harry Kane, Robert Huth, Jesse Lingard, Alexis Sanchez and Oumar Niasse to claim the award.
His goal against West Brom was the second of the game and saw Townsend run the whole length of the pitch after he dispossessed Jonathan Leko and shrugged him off on the edge of his own area. When he arrived in the West Brom half he was 1-on-1 with Gareth McAuley and after some stepovers he fired low to score against Ben Foster, sealing an important 2-0 win for Allardyce’s men.
Speaking to the Clubs Official Website, Townsend said: “I shrugged off Leko and Christian [Benteke] ran away so he left me the space, and even though I had nothing left I thought ‘I’m going to have to go for this.’ It ended up as a two-v-two attack and thankfully I scored the goal.”
“It’s definitely up there as one of the best in my career. I’ve been criticised that I’m a great scorer of goals, but not a great goalscorer. I’ve scored one for Spurs from a similar distance against Swansea, and a couple for England against Italy and Montenegro as well as another for Leyton Orient against Yeovil from a similar distance, so I’ve scored quite a few!”
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@andros_townsend has won the @premierleague’s Goal of the Month award for March!
What. A. Run. ️https://t.co/SCE4T3lABO (@CPFC)
