Juan Mata's Classy Goal Celebration Vs. Leicester City Explained

Juan Mata is a classy, classy bloke. And his goal celebration against Leicester City proves that.

The Manchester United midfielder bagged a brace on Saturday including a superb free-kick to put his side in front.

But before his set-piece effort, Mata leveled with a tidy finish to level the Premier League fixture, barely celebrating with the Spaniard hellbent on restarting the game.

He then converted a set-piece in the second half, celebrating in unique fashion.

_{Schmeichel is beaten. Image: PA}

After curling the ball over Leicester's wall and past a hapless Kasper Schmeichel, Mata wheeled away in celebration by running over to United's traveling support where he also confronted the TV cameras.

He gestured 'namaste' with his hands which paid homage to the OSCAR Foundation in Mumbai, India.

Mata kept his promise by dedicating his goal to the children of that charity.

"For the first goal, I didn't do it because we needed another goal but, for the second one, I thought about them and this goal was dedicated to those kids in Mumbai," he told French outlet L'Equipe.

_{Mata celebrates after scoring his sides second goal. Image: PA}

Mata helped launch the new global initiative Common Goal which aims to convince players to donate one per cent of their salary to Football For Good charities such as the OSCAR Foundation, per MUFC.

He also spoke about Harry Maguires's last-gasp stoppage time equaliser.

_{Maguire pops up in the last minute to score for Leicester. Image: PA}

Lamenting United's missed chances when 2-1 up.

"We didn't kill the game and we should have killed it - it's easy to say now. If we won, we would have been saying it was a fantastic game and we came back and did the most difficult thing which was to score twice after they went ahead.

"But that's football and in the last seconds they put the ball into the box and scored," he added.

Topics: Juan Mata, Football News, Manchester United, Premier League

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