I’ve cried plenty of times after a goal in a Europa League game, but it’s usually when the Cypriot cup winners score a late equaliser against Rapid Vienna to ruin my accumulator or something similar, and it at least takes place in my living room.
Alvaro Morata on the other hand had the whole world watching when he broke into tears following his winner against MOL Vidi in the same competition two weeks ago.
The Spanish striker has since denied that though, and his quotes from an interview with El Mundo were carried on SportsWitness where he hoped to explain what happened:
“I don’t have to be happy for scoring against a far inferior team. What’s more is that I should have scored more than one, and that’s why I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t crying, or doing a lot of things that people said.”
It certainly did look like there were tears in his eyes, but perhaps that’s just us reading into the wet flannel impression we have of him.
We were surprised by the tears too – Morata had scored against Arsenal a few weeks before that, it’s hardly like he has gone 6 months without finding the net like Olivier Giroud has for the club – although he had at least has a World Cup winners medal to cheer him up if he feels low.
