Minnesota United extended its unbeaten streak to ten games with a dominant 5-1 win over Indy Eleven last night. Aaron Pitchkolan, playing in midfield with Juliano Vicentini out injured, opened the scoring after 25 minutes, and Christian Ramirez and Daniel Mendes added goals before halftime to take the game out of reach at the halfway mark. In the second half, Jamie Watson added a fourth and Ramirez a fifth before the hour mark. Kleberson scored a consolation for Indy, 20 minutes from the end of the match.

I tell you all that so that I can tell you this: all anyone can talk about is Ramirez's first goal, which came from a bicycle kick in the Indy area. You can see it below, beginning at about the 2:30 mark.

The win takes United, at least for the moment, to the top of the fall-season table. San Antonio plays at Ottawa later today, but after six games for both teams, United has 16 points and the Scorpions 15.

Ramirez's two goals extended his lead atop the NASL scoring race; the young striker now has 12 goals in 15 games this year. To put that in perspective, only two players scored more than 12 goals in all of 2013, and only four players have ever tallied more in the three previous NASL seasons. And keep in mind that Ramirez has a dozen games to go this fall.

We all wondered how United could cope this year without injured striker Pablo Campos, who scored at least 12 goals in each of the three years of the NASL. It's safe to say that Ramirez has filled those shoes admirably.