Last minute desperation in the cup, you get a corner and suddenly you call ‘rush goalie’ or ‘goalie when needed’ and your keeper is in the opposition area. Last throw of the die, last-chance saloon, last hope. Jesse Joronen wasn’t like that.
Responding to a Wycombe long punt turned through ball, the young Finnish stopper, on loan from Championship side Fulham, raced out of his area and basically kicked the laces off the ball. Up the field sailed the ball, arrow-straight and true before bouncing deceivingly over the bewildered Matt Ingram in the Wycombe Wanderers goal.
https://youtu.be/aRT29WC7ge0
In notching his first professional goal, Joronen set Stevenage on their way to a 2-1 victory which will have no doubt pleased Borough boss Teddy Sheringham who had seen his team fail to win in any of their previous seven matches. Sheringham himself commented on his keeper scoring goal, saying in an interview on the Stevenage official website, “There has been a few over the years. I didn’t think it was windy or skiddy enough to do it today but it just catches people out sometimes and we are delighted for a little bit of luck like that.” In scoring, Stevenage’s Jesse Jorenen became the first keeper to score in England’s top four flights since Asmir Begovic did for Stoke in November 2013.
All that was really left was for Stevenage’s official Twitter account to round things of by summing up the day perfectly:
Thanks for your superb support on another memorable afternoon at The Lamex. Striker scores. Goalkeeper scores. Standard day at the office
— Stevenage FC 🔴⚪ (@StevenageFC) October 17, 2015
