MLS called it a plasma rocket. Others called it "stunning", an "absolute scorcher" and a "laser beam."
Benny Feilhaber's game-tying goal against the Houston Dynamo on Saturday sent shockwaves throughout the Twitterverse and gave Sporting Kansas City a hard-fought point on the road. And now, the goal that gave Feilhaber his first MLS brace has been nominated for MLS Goal of the Week.
"I saw it was going to come to [Graham] Zusi and I was asking him to lay it off," Feilhaber told reporters after the match. "He laid it off perfectly and I just wanted to get a good strike on it, let it sit properly with little baby bounces. I tried to hit it low to get it on target and thankfully it snuck in the near post."
Feilhaber's goal capped off a back-and-forth affair that began when Krisztian Nemeth scored the game's first goal in the second-minute of the match. Houston responded with three straight goals before Feilhaber's first MLS penalty kick leveled the match in the 80th minute. The Dynamo regained the lead through Raul Rodriguez's header in the 84th minute, but it was Feilhaber who the got last laugh, lacing a shot past homegrown goalkeeper Tyler Deric in the fifth minute of stoppage time to cap off the 4-4 match.
Voting for MLS Goal of the Week opened on Monday and will run through Friday morning at 1:59 a.m. CT. Feilhaber's goal is the first MLS Goal of the Year nominee for Sporting KC in 2015.
