An hour after full-time and Steve Mounie was still smiling. He was going to lap it all up. Two goals on his Premier League debut and he made sure those who knew him revelled in the moment as much as he did.
As Huddersfield’s players departed the pitch at Selhurst Park the club’s £11.5million record signing dashed across to a group of French football fans who had travelled from Montpellier - the place where manager David Wagner visited six months ago to get his first real glimpse of the striker.
‘They started shouting at me in French,’ the 22-year-old said.