Aston Villa's Douglas Luiz has one of the wildest talents in football right now

Douglas Luiz has one of the most random, but fascinating talents in world football.

Regularly ranked amongst the Premier League‘s finest defensive midfielders, the 24-year-old is now in his fourth season at Aston Villa and boy did he open his account for 2022/23 in style this week.

Luiz’s position means that goals aren’t exactly his priority whenever he takes to the pitch and just six strikes from over 100 appearances for the Villans does little to prove otherwise.

However, the Brazil international’s sixth and most recent goal should frankly have counted as a hat-trick because it came in extraordinary circumstances against Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday.

Villa actually found themselves 1-0 down to the League One club when Dion Charles scored after 24 minutes, but Steven Gerrard’s men eventually left the University of Bolton Stadium with a 4-1 triumph.

Goals from Danny Ings, Lucas Digne and Leon Bailey ultimately ensured the victory, but it was Luiz who got the Premier League side on level terms with what many refer to as an ‘Olympic goal’.

For those less familiar with the unofficial terminology, that refers to the extremely rare situation where a player finds the back of the net directly from a corner.

Yes, that’s right, the corner taker scoring a goal with one fell swoop of their boot from the quadrant without anybody getting a significant touch along the way that would see the scorer credited as someone else.

And while, yes, the likes of Roberto Carlos, David Beckham, Toni Kroos and Thierry Henry have all achieved the feat over the years, the simple fact of the matter is that you don’t see Olympic goals every day.

So be sure to check out Luiz joining the club with his spectacular strike against Bolton, catching out Joel