Tony Yeboah looks back on memorable Monday night strike for Leeds

Tony Yeboah struck a stunning volley for Leeds as they beat Liverpool at Elland Road during the 1995/96 season

Two decades ago, Tony Yeboah scored one of the most memorable goals in Premier League history, for Leeds United against Liverpool.

Everyone who has seen it, knows it - an Exocet of a first-time volley which rebounded in off the underside of the bar and lit up an early installment of Monday Night Football on August 21, 1995.

In an exclusive interview with the Yorkshire Post, Yeboah says memories of the goal are crystal-clear and that not a goalkeeper in the world would have kept it out.

"It was live on Sky, so no-one was watching anything else," Yeboah said. "On a Saturday, you had games everywhere but on Monday, Leeds and Liverpool. Nothing else.

Image: Tony Yeboah scored one of the most memorable Monday Night Football goals when he fired home a volley for Leeds against Liverpool in August 1995

"He (David James) was stretching and stretching as far as he could. He did everything he could do but the (placement) was perfect. I don't think a goalkeeper in the world can save that. I'm not being disrespectful but what would they do? David James couldn't do anything.

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"Not everyone can score a goal like that. But it wasn't lucky. In the same situation, I could have done that again. Of course I could."

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