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09th Feb 2015

Vine: USA’s Alex Morgan pulls of a sensational backwards nutmeg against France

Had her on toast

Gareth Makim

That’s what we called a nutmeg.

The US women’s team were playing France yesterday and the highlight (well for the US anyway, as they crashed to a 2-0 defeat in Lorient) was this audacious piece of trickery by forward Alex Morgan.

Morgan shields the ball from the defender before deftly dragging the ball backwards between her opponent’s legs and spinning past her.

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