🎥 Two years ago today: Dele Alli's goal of the season against Crystal Palace

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Daniel Issroff·23 January 2018

It’s not always worth re-visiting old goals.

Sometimes they don’t quite live up to your memories of them. Sometimes you get sad thinking about how things have changed.

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That is absolutely not the case for Dele Alli’s world-class effort against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, which took place on this day in 2016.

Simply sublime ?? #OnThisDay in 2016, @dele_official did this…#COYS pic.twitter.com/qNR1i2ykaA
– Tuesday, 23 January 2018

It was majestic — the announcement of a true star on the Premier League stage.

The touch, the swivel, the finish — and to think he did it at the tender age of 19 …

Alli’s effort won the BBC Goal of the Season award for 2015-2016 and it would have been a worthy winner in almost any year.