Andriy Yarmolenko

Cutting in from the right onto his left foot became Yarmolenko’s signature, but the pattern was never as simple as defenders wished it were. For Dynamo Kyiv and Ukraine, he mixed ball-carrying, diagonal runs, combination play and a consistent goal threat from wide areas, turning himself into one of the defining attackers of the post-Shevchenko national era. His game has always lived between winger and second striker: not pure speed, not pure finesse, but end product, timing and that left-footed whip opponents kept seeing and somehow kept allowing, geniale.