Vincent Kompany kept Manchester City’s title hopes alive with a mesmerizing goal

Manchester City went into Monday’s Premier League match with Leicester City trailing Liverpool by two points in the standings. City needed a win to remain in the driver’s seat on Championship Sunday.

With the match scoreless into the 70th minute, Vincent Kompany put his stamp on the title race with perhaps the biggest Manchester City goal since Sergio Aguero’s epic winner in 2012.

Kompany saw window to goal from outside the box and went for it. He unloaded a blistering strike from 30 yards right into the top corner of the net.

It was the perfect shot that sent Manchester City back into first place.

Vincent Kompany with one of the all-time great goals in a Premier League title race. City wins, one point ahead of Liverpool with one game to play.pic.twitter.com/sujOT91K59

— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) May 6, 2019

This was just Liverpool’s luck. It had been six years since Kompany had a shot on target from outside the penalty area. He chose quite the time to break that streak.

Vincent Kompany had his first shot on target from outside the penalty area since December 2013, his last goal from outside the box was for Hamburg vs Brann in 2007. Liverpool’s luck in a nutshell.

— Mootaz Chehade (@MHChehade) May 6, 2019

The wonderstrike was so ridiculous that Aguero was telling him not to shoot in the lead-up to the shot.

NOOOOO VINNY! NOOOOOO! 😂 pic.twitter.com/iBJLnddsIg

— Manchester City (@ManCity) May 6, 2019

It was a “No, No, YES!” goal if we’ve ever seen one.