When Lorenzo Macheda was old enough to go on YouTube, it wasn’t long before he came across the clip of his dad scoring one of the most incredible goals Old Trafford has ever seen.
Teenage substitute Federico Macheda spinning away from the Aston Villa defence on his debut in April 2009 and curling home a 93rd-minute winner to give United a 3-2 win and a decisive push in the title race with Liverpool.
‘He didn’t know, I didn’t tell him about it,’ Macheda says of his seven-year-old son. ‘He was surprised.