 After the match, Diego Maradona stated that the goal was scored "a little with his head, and a little with the hand of God".At the end of the first half, while the game was still tied at 0-0, Maradona was beginning to influence the end result of the match.Six minutes into the second half of the game, Maradona took the ball out of the box with his left leg and passed it to teammate Jorge Valdano.