Adam Armstrong opened his account for Wolves in the 2-2 draw against Brentford – and drew praise from Premier League legend Thierry Henry for his movement.
The Old Gold produced a spirited second-half performance to take a point at the Gtech Community Stadium.
Wolves were 2-0 down, but showed great character to get back into the game – and it was Armstrong who gave the visitors hope before heading into the break.
The striker has had some lively performances since joining the club in the winter transfer window.
But he hadn’t scored up until last night – and legendary former striker turned pundit Thierry Henry was a big fan of how he took his goal.
Thierry Henry loved Adam Armstrong’s movement to score for Wolves against Brentford
Speaking after the game, Henry praised Armstrong for the way he bamboozled Nathan Collins with his movement before scoring Wolves’ first goal.
He said on Monday Night Football: “That’s what you’ve been told as a striker and that’s what you should be doing here. That’s perfect. Normally you want to pull away but he’s already in the situation where he pulled away enough from Collins.
“Now, while you’re pulling away, you’re looking at what he’s doing. So you see the whole situation. He (Collins) doesn’t, he doesn’t see what’s happening. So when Bellegarde is on the ball and you can roll it, now you decide. He’s still looking, so when that ball is going to travel to Armstrong, he’s (Collins) going to also turn to see what Armstrong is doing, but he’s already kind of moving, you can’t see!
“You now control the whole situation, because you (defender) weren’t aware. So what are you giving me? If you stay like that and you’re not looking obviously I’ll let the ball come.
“But if you’re also not looking and you try to come back and get it that way, I cut across you, and I go with the right conviction and the right touch.
“And here he does a little step to make sure he’s close enough to the ball, generate power and go first post.
“He can finish. Look, you don’t do that just like that. I know people always say he will score in the Championship than in the Prem. But that’s a great goal, the whole thing was great.”
Break comes at wrong time for Armstrong
It was a brilliant goal by Armstrong and his movement to throw off Collins was certainly impressive.
It’s a goal his performances have deserved, but it’s just a shame now that Wolves don’t play a game for almost a whole month.
As a striker, building rhythm is so important.
Armstrong would surely have loved to play this weekend to try and build on that goal against Brentford.
Hopefully he’ll still have that fire burning by the time the West Ham United game rolls around on April 10
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