Sergi Canos wrote his name into the Premier League records books on Friday evening by becoming the first player to score in the 2021-22 campaign.
The former Liverpool winger netted in Brentford’s maiden Premier League match against Arsenal to put the newly-promoted Bees ahead after 22 minutes.
Canos spent a season on loan at Griffin Park in 2015 before leaving Anfield for Norwich in a deal worth up to £4.5m in the summer of 2016.
However, after failing to make an impact at Carrow Road, he re-joined Brentford on a permanent deal in January 2017.
And, after making more than 100 appearances in the Championship, he helped the club to promotion last season.
Now, playing on the main stage, Canos fired home to put the Bees ahead against the Gunners, cutting in from the left and shooting low into the net.
While the Spaniard only spent a season in the Liverpool first-team after arriving on Merseyside from Barcelona at the age of 16 in 2013, he did play one senior game, coming on as a substitute in the final game of the 2015-16 season against West Brom.
Though the decision to leave Liverpool irked his granddad, Canos knew he had to make a move in order to progress in his career.
Speaking to Brentford’s YouTube channe l this week, the 24-year-old admitted: “For me, when I left Liverpool I knew I had to go two steps backwards to make a big step forwards and my grandad didn’t like it, my grandad didn’t want it.
"He thought the stability of Liverpool, a big club, but it all paid off that day at Wembley.
“I think you have to risk sometimes to get what you want, sometimes you risk and don’t win anything but if you risk and give everything and literally we gave everything then you’re happier, you enjoy it more.”
At the time of writing, Brentford remained 1-0 up against Arsenal at the start of the second half.
