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Close Arsenal’s goal-of-the-season competition now. They have a winner. If, that is, the prize is for the scruffiest goal.
Gunners of a certain vintage will recall Dennis Bergkamp scoring one of the most artistic, aesthetically-pleasing hat-tricks of all, against Leicester in 1997. A younger generation could enjoy Viktor Gyokeres’ distinctly uglier brace against Atletico Madrid, but for rather different reasons.
The cliche is that forwards on goal droughts need one to go in off…