Lyon’s Trelles wins Goal of the Year with a strike that needed no modesty
Cristian Trelles has taken the Ligue 1 Uber Eats Goal of the Year award for his high, long-range effort against Montpellier in March.
The prize was for the season’s best goals so far; Lyon’s Cristian Trelles has claimed it with a strike that made a case for itself well before the envelopes were opened. The award, given in May, recognises his 44th-minute effort against Montpellier Hérault SC on 8 March.
Trelles struck the ball with his foot from outside the box and sent it high. It came in a 3-1 Olympique Lyonnais win, a result with its own importance; the award now gives the goal a second life, in rather more polished company than the match report.
For Trelles, the accolade adds a gleaming line to a Lyon spell that began in 2058. He has made 15 appearances for the club and scored three goals.
There is something satisfying in a goal prize that does not need a complicated sales pitch: a player, a ball, and an audacious strike that clears the bar and the argument. Trelles will not be short of ambition; the rest of the shortlist, wherever it may now be looking, has been given a clear answer.