Sam Byram

Picking up the ball just outside the penalty area, he beat two Oxford defenders with his first and second touches before chipping the goalkeeper from inside the box in the 34th minute to give his team a 2–0 lead.

An impressed Neil Warnock told reporters after the game that "Sam will probably never score another goal like that in his career".

Samuel Mark Byram (born 16 September 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right back for Championship club Leeds United.

He has also played for West Ham United, Nottingham Forest and Norwich City.

Byram was born in Thurrock, Essex, before moving north, where he attended Ralph Butterfield Primary School, Haxby, and then Joseph Rowntree School in York.

He played for the City Schools team as a boy before joining Leeds United.

After completing his secondary education at school, he signed scholar forms with the West Yorkshire club in 2010.

During his first year as scholar, he played 'down' a year in the under-16 team to help his development as a footballer.

He later progressed to his age group in the under-18s where he would become a regular in the team during his second year in 2011–12.

As an integral part of the team, he scored several goals over the course of the season as the under-18s finished as runners-up to Newcastle United in their divisional academy league.

Following the end of the season in May 2012, he was one of five young players rewarded with their first professional contracts for their performances in the campaign.

In the first friendly match of Leeds United's 2012–13 pre-season against Farsley Celtic, Byram was one of a number of youngsters given an opportunity to impress manager Neil Warnock when he lined up for the second half at Throstle Nest.

United recorded a convincing 5–2 victory over their city rivals.

Nevertheless, he would travel with the first-team on their pre season tour of the South West of England the following week, featuring in the games against Tavistock, Bodmin Town and Torquay United.

Byram remained as part of the first-team in pre-season after returning to the North; playing for an hour and scoring in the game away to Preston North End.

After impressing in pre-season, Byram was handed the number 25 shirt for the season ahead and he made his first team debut at Elland Road in a 4–0 victory over Shrewsbury Town on 11 August in the League Cup.

Byram retained his place in the first-team the following week in United's first league game of the campaign against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

He was part of a defence that kept a clean-sheet in a 1–0 victory over one of the early favourites for promotion and his performance out-wide against the England international Matt Jarvis won praise from several observers.

He signed a new three-year contract with the West Yorkshire club two days after his league debut and only three months after signing his first professional contract with the club.

Byram scored his first professional goal on 28 August in the 3–0 League Cup second-round victory over Oxford United.

This goal was later voted as Leeds' Goal of the Year for 2012.

Byram remained a permanent feature in the first-team squad during the early months of the season with United legend Eddie Gray tipping him to win a call-up to England Under-21 squad in the near future if he maintained his form.

His former manager in the under-18s, Neil Redfearn, stated that Byram's rise through the ranks at the club served as a good example for other promising youngsters including his former teammates in the academy side, Ross Killock, Dominic Poleon and Simon Lenighan.

On 2 October, he scored his first league goal for Leeds in a 2–2 draw away to Bolton Wanderers, heading in a cross from El Hadji Diouf.

An away match at Leicester City on 5 March saw young Byram score his third goal for Leeds in a 1–1 draw.

The hip injury sustained at the end of the 2012–13 season ruled Byram out of the England under-20's World Cup.

After his impressive form for Leeds linked him with Premier League interest, Byram signed a new contract with Leeds on 26 January 2013, to extend his stay at the club until 2016.

He scored his second league goal for the club on 6 March, in a 1–1 draw away at Leicester City, and followed this up with the equaliser in another 1–1 draw, at home to Peterborough United.

On 26 April 2013, Byram won the Yorkshire Evening Post Player of the Season award with 99% of the vote.

After being linked with an £8 million move to Manchester City in the summer, Byram proclaimed that he wanted to stay at Leeds to try earn promotion.

At the club's annual end of season awards on 27 April, Byram won the Player of the Year Award, Young Player of the Year Award, Players Player of the Year Award and also the Supporters Club Player of the Year Award.

On 30 July 2013, Bryam was named in Sky Sports Football League Players to watch out for in the Football League.

Bryam's injury caused him to miss the entire 2013–14 pre-season friendlies for Leeds.

After missing the start of the 2013–14 season, on 6 August Leeds manager Brian McDermott announced that Byram had an injection in his hip and the injury may require surgery which could potentially rule him out for several months.

Byram made his first-team return on 21 September 2013, playing 57 minutes in Leeds' 2–1 defeat against Burnley.

He also played Leeds' next game, a League Cup defeat to Newcastle United, playing the full 90 minutes.

Byram played just 27 games during an injury hit season.

On 1 August, Byram was assigned the Leeds number 2 shirt for the 2014–15 season.

On 9 August, Southampton manager Ronald Koeman confirmed that Leeds had rejected a bid of £4.5 million to sign Byram.

Byram was given a straight red card on 23 August against Watford for an off the ball incident with Watford defender Daniel Pudil.