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Watch this Fulham player somehow beat a man using his back

Published 22:15 5 Aug 2016 BST

Tom Victor
Watch this Fulham player somehow beat a man using his back

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Few things surprise us in football these days.

Rafa Benitez losing his first Championship game with Newcastle. Meh, it happens. Spurs beating Inter 6-1. Boring. Zlatan Ibrahimovic getting tips from Stormzy? Zzzzz. It takes something very special for us to sit up and take notice. And that something very special is this outrageous piece of skill from Fulham new-boy Denis Odoi.
KSC Lokern OV v FC Metalist Kharkiv - UEFA Europa LeagueEuroFootball/Getty Images
The Belgian international was making his competitive debut for the London club in the 1-0 victory over Rafa's Newcastle. He didn't score - that honour went to Matt Smith - but he did pull off something quite remarkable. As a high ball came his way  on the right, Odoi spotted Magpies left-back Paul Dummett out of the corner of his eye. He had three options:
  1. Head the ball inside to team-mate Tom Cairney
  2. Take a touch and knock a pass back to another colleague
  3. Control it on his chest and try to beat Dummett down the line.
Odoi, as you may have guessed by now, chose option four. https://twitter.com/sio_chamberlain/status/761661259892785152 It hasn't been a fun few years for Fulham fans. After relegation from the Premier League in 2014 they have lost some of their most talented players, with the likes of Patrick Roberts, Pajtim Kasami and Moussa Dembele (no, not that one, the other fella) moving to pastures new. So it goes without saying that when they saw Odoi in action, they were immediately won over. https://twitter.com/mlungz77/status/761666405129486337 https://twitter.com/ConnorDurham18/status/761666311986434048 https://twitter.com/AndyGlockner/status/761666050085695490 https://twitter.com/Fulhamaway/status/761665992392970242 Luckily no one got too carried away,though. https://twitter.com/RoryPage22/status/761666613364031488 Denis Odoi? More like Denis Oh-Boy, am I right? Joe.co.uk Snapchat

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Watch this Fulham player somehow beat a man using his back