Watch back Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s Southampton goals from the 2010-11 season, before he joined Arsenal for £15million a few days before his 18th birthday, you’ll see most of them came from a central position.
The teenager was racing in behind defenders and bowling over goalkeepers, or outwitting a crowded box with his skill before finishing. He was predominantly a winger and his pace and trickery on the flanks was mesmerising at times, but the goals largely came through the middle.
When Damien Comolli scouted him for Liverpool that year, the Merseyside club were lining him up to play in the hole behind Fernando Torres, in much the same way Dele Alli plays off Harry Kane now for Spurs.