There’s something especially pleasant about a striker having a trademark finish.
Ask any football lover, millennial or otherwise, to name a forward who scored a specific kind of goal with a certain level of ease and recurrence and Thierry Henry’s name immediately springs up.
Indeed, Arsenal’s all-time top scorer netted many brilliant strikes in his two spells in North London but one particular sort of finish became a trademark: the Frenchman receiving the ball in the inside-left channel, adjusting his body shape while bearing down on goal, before placing the ball coolly into the bottom right corner.