Mason Mount puffed out his cheeks, took a two-step run-up before dropping a dime of a corner right onto the head of an onrushing Casemiro.
As team-mates swarmed towards the Brazilian - his fourth goal this season making it 2-0 and taking the game away from a poor Palace side - Mount threw both arms up, took one look to the sky before turning to the fans to let rip with a fist pump.
With the No 7 on his back it was hard not to draw comparisons to his predecessors in that jersey.