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Hapoel Tel Aviv 1

by Martin Spinks

SALIF Diao shook hands and embraced the opposition keeper before the game, then gave him a proverbial slap in the face by unleashing a remarkably struck effort to provide the stunning highlight of last night's friendly in Leoben.

Remarkable not just because it flew over the goalkeeper from at least 40 yards, but also because it was a first Stoke goal for a player recently dubbed the worst shooter in the club.

And to score it against a fellow African, a man he obviously knows pretty well, was all the sweeter for the former Senegal international.

Stoke, wearing a borrowed green shirt because of a clash of colours, produced just that one telling shot at goal in the first period of last night's action ... but what a shot.

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