Bend It In Like Beckham!

Remember David Beckham and his brilliant set pieces? Well, he may have aged but don’t write him off yet!

David Beckham in action during the Galaxy-Chicago Fire game

Beckham produced some of his old magic from a dead ball situation by scoring directly from a corner to lead the Los Angeles Galaxy to a 2-1 win over the Chicago Fire in the U.S. Major League (MLS) on Saturday.

He rolled back the years to prove nobody else can bend it like him when his ball from a corner deceived everyone before nestling inside the back of the net, moving the Galaxy five points clear at the top of the Western Conference.

Beckham had earlier supplied a cross from another corner kick in the 58th-minute for Landon Donovan to open the score before Cristian Nazarith equalised in the 62nd minute with a well placed header.

“I saw the goalie cheating a little out of goal and saw a gap,” Beckham said after the game. “I knew if I put it in area, it was going to get a touch off somebody or go straight in.

“Luckily, it went straight in.”

“We hurt ourselves with the set pieces,” Chicago Fire interim coach Frank Klopas said. “When you give opportunities to set pieces to the player that is the best in the world at that, we put ourselves at risk.

“We should have done better with the marking.”

At the other end, Galaxy coach Bruce Arena praised the England midfielder.

“I don’t know how that went in,” Arena said. “That’s what we pay him the big money for.”