Juan Mata, author of a double with Manchester United against Leicester at King Power Stadium, dedicated the second goal to the children of Bombay as he had promised them some time ago, when a group of them from the OSCAR Foundation traveled to Old Trafford.
The Spanish midfielder equalized the score opened by Jamie Vardy to give his team the draw before halftime. Later, he scored a free kick, an hour into the game, which put Jose Mourinho's team ahead. However, in added time, Harry Maguier frustrated the Reds' expectations and sealed the final draw with which the match ended.
Mata took advantage of the celebration of his second goal, the one scored from a direct free kick, to fulfill a promise he made to the children of the Foundation who traveled from Bombay to visit him last October.
The Spanish player sent the ball into the net, approached one of the television cameras, and put his hands together in a praying gesture accompanied by a bow. "It was because when the children from the OSCAR Foundation, with whom we work for Common Goal, came to visit me at Old Trafford, they asked me to do this kind of celebration," explained the player to the Manchester United TV.
"I didn't do it after the first goal because we needed another one. But when I scored the second, I thought of them and that's why I dedicated this goal to the children of Bombay,".