Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang finds himself in illustrious company indeed. For all the exceptional strikers to have donned the red of Arsenal in the past 25 years only two have ended a season as the Premier League's top scorer with 22 goals of his name.
The Gabon striker has achieved something Ian Wright, Dennis Bergkamp, Emmanuel Adebayor and Alexis Sanchez could not, though his award will be shared with Liverpool duo Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah.
Only Thierry Henry and Robin van Persie had previously won the Golden Boot in an Arsenal shirt. Undoubtedly Aubameyang is the best pure finisher the Gunners have had since the latter of that duo.
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The likes of Martin Keown have even argued that Aubameyang gets them off their seat like no-one since his fellow No.14, Henry.
Yet celebrations of Aubameyang's outstanding feats this season have been tinged with a question: what about the chances he missed? Most significantly the penalty at Wembley that, had it been scored, would have propelled Arsenal beyond Tottenham and into fourth place.
There were others. Even today he spurned a hat-trick on multiple occasions, to skew Henrikh Mkhitaryan's cross wide from little more than a few metres out and in the centre of the goal was an achievement on ball striking on a par with the explosive volley that brought him his second goal.
According to Understat Aubameyang is one of only three players in the Premier League's top nine scorers whose goal return is less than his expected goals - ie that the Arsenal top scorer ought to have scored more goals (23.55 to be precise) than he actually tucked away this season.
That is as maybe but while he misses chances you cannot help but want for some more players in this Arsenal team to create chances for him and Alexandre Lacazette. Even this victory was a case in point.
Alex Iwobi might have provided Aubameyang's second with a delicately lofted ball in from the left but it came after a string of atrocious deliveries in the first half that either found the first Burnley defender or looped straight out of play.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan didn't even have an assist to point to. Whatever understanding he and Aubameyang had at Borussia Dortmund seems to have been forgotten now at a time when it is a struggle to quite comprehend what it is the Armenian does.
Arsenal want to sign a winger this season and no wonder. Whether Bournemouth's Ryan Fraser is the player to take the club to the next level is up for debate but the Premier League's second most effective assist provider this season would certainly give Aubameyang far better service than much of the current squad.
Still to judge Aubameyang by what might have been is to do a disservice to a player who has proven to be infinitely less trouble than Borussia Dortmund had warned he might be after going on strike to force his way to London. Indeed as his close partnership and friendship with Lacazette and mentorship of Eddie Nketiah and Matteo Guendouzi have proven, the ruthless goal-getter is a consumate team-mate.
Even in a moment of potential personal triumph Aubameyang refused to make the trip to Turf Moor about him.
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"I said nothing to the guys because I didn't want them to only focus on me," Aubameyang said of his Golden Boot chase.
"I'm a team player and if I weren't scoring, it wouldn't have mattered. But I scored and I'm really happy for that.
"I have to be thankful to the team."
And for all that this team player sometimes wastes the chances his colleagues put on a plate for him you can be sure that if a goal is required he will come up big... and with the sort of style that changes the tone of a game.
He may have missed that penalty in Arsenal's Wembley meeting with Tottenham but his blistering brace in the first game inspired his side on their course to what is undeniably their best win of the season so far. The second, that instinctive, first-time thraker of a low shot, was typical of Aubameyang at his best this term.
His brilliance served to inspire his team-mates, in this instance to rattle through Spurs in swift fashion. Similarly when Arsenal looked to be in real danger in Valencia on Thursday night it was a moment of instinctive finishing from Aubameyang that turned the tie on its head, that saved Arsenal's blushes.
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For a fanbase that had lived in a state of continual tension in the final years of Arsene Wenger's reign there is something utterly joyous about a player like Aubameyang, whose stock traffic is extraordinary goals, who celebrates them by donning your favourite comic book character's mask, whose shin pads are works of manga-inspired art.
Aubameyang might have fluffed his lines on more occasions this season than a Golden Boot winner usually might. This has not been a season of sustained, unrepeatable goalscoring excellence of the like Salah achieved a year ago.
Yet that need not be a stick to beat the 30-year-old with. After all, if this is what Aubameyang's output is like when the half-chances and breaks aren't going his way, imagine what Arsenal could achieve when luck is on his side.
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