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Payet evokes memories of Maradona with West Ham solo goal

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 defense 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.