Brandon Allen scored the 30th goal of his pro soccer career on Saturday, July 1.
It was the sort of right-place-at-the-right-time goal that has become his soccer signature. The sort of goal that makes it very easy to dismiss Allen as a tap-in merchant, a player benefiting more from the system he's playing in than his own ability. Except that analysis needs to account for the inconvenient truth about Allen: he's in the right place at the right time a lot more often than a lot of players of seemingly superior talent.
Brandon Allen's talent is scoring goals.