West Ham's Dimitri Payet finishes off a brilliant run with a goal against Middlesbrough on Saturday in EPL action. ( GLYN KIRK / AFP/GETTY IMAGES )LONDON—Thirty years after Diego Maradona’s goal of the century, West Ham winger Dimitri Payet wound back the clock with a brilliantly executed solo goal on Saturday evoking memories of the Argentina great. Unlike Maradona’s 1986 World Cup strike after charging through brittle English resistance, Payet’s mazy run through Middlesbrough’s defence came on a far less significant occasion. But the English Premier League point it secured might just have saved Slaven Bilic’s job, with the 1-1 draw preventing West Ham from crashing to a fifth successive loss. “It was a brilliant moment of magic.”Article Continued BelowBut West Ham remains winless since the opening day of the season, lodged in the relegation zone with four points from seven games.

Source: thestar October 01, 2016 19:41 UTC