Wycombe winger Garath McCleary has reflected on his stunning goal in Wanderers’ 2-0 away win at Forest Green Rovers.
After David Wheeler gave the Chairboys the lead on 14 minutes, the former Jamaican international scored an incredible strike on the outside of his right foot from 20-yards out.
The goal just before the half-hour mark even got some of the home fans on their feet applauding as McCleary bagged his third of the campaign.
The way @gmccleary12 curls that with the outside of his foot 😳@wwfcofficial | @EFL pic.twitter.com/SHXEHiebkE
— ITV Football (@itvfootball) November 12, 2022
Amazingly, out of the 54 league goals he has bagged for Nottingham Forest, Reading, and Wycombe, only three have come away from home in League One fixtures.
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The first was for Forest in their promotion-winning season of 2007/08, when he scored the second in a 2-0 victory at Carlisle United in April 2008.
The second was 14 years and four days later when he bagged the fourth in a 4-1 win at Cambridge United for Wycombe, with the third away goal of his League One career coming in Saturday's triumph against the Green Army.
Speaking on the strike, he said: “I have been told that it was cross to the far post, but I definitely meant it!
Ricardo Quaresma-esque!
— Wycombe Wanderers (@wwfcofficial) November 12, 2022
Garath McCleary played his part in today's victory over Forest Green with a sensational effort - hear what he had to say about it after the match.#FGRvWYC
“It was good to get the goal, but it was more important to get the win.
“The last few games that we have played, we haven’t got the results that we have wanted, even though in a few of the home games I thought we did well.
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WHAT A GOOOAAAL! (Garath McCleary)
— The Wycombe Way (@theWycombeWay) November 12, 2022
0-2 [27’] #Chairboys pic.twitter.com/t9RgwCCowH
“The game today [November 12] however, in the first half we did really well and we need to take that into the second half as well.
“But it was good to get the win and it’s something to build on.”
McCleary has played 94 times for Wycombe and has scored 18 goals.
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