Anatomy of a Goal: Nadiem Amiri's outrageous pirouette, double nutmeg & back-heel beauty

Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp is widely credited with producing the silkiest touch to ever lead to a goal against Newcastle United in 2002, while hipsters argue Stoke City's Ricardo Fuller rivalled that beauty with his flick and strike against Aston Villa in 2008.

But both players should be peering nervously over their shoulders as they clasp onto their plaudits, because Bayer Leverkusen star Nadiem Amiri has only gone and rolled home one of the slickest, sauciest goals you may ever see.

The German giants were taking on Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday afternoon, and although they surrendered the opportunity to leapfrog Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga by slipping to a 2-1 defeat, they treated viewers to one of the goals of the season.

With the game poised at 0-0 after only 10 minutes, Amiri decided to flip the world on its head with a moment of genius, brilliance, quick-thinking and next level composure.

Youngster Florian Wirtz collected the ball on the right-hand side, and cut inside looking to hurt the Frankfurt defence. The teenager drifted infield, and upon spotting a piercing, vertical run by Amiri, opted to delicately clip the ball into the German's path.

A nice idea, but the execution wasn't quite there. The pass fell just a touch short of the midfielder, and his bursting run meant that the ball dropped behind its target.

But greatness laughs in the face of adversity. Amiri recognised that the ball's trajectory was slightly off, and rather than stopping in his tracks or trying a first-time pass to a teammate, he decided to take matters into his own hands.

Amiri half-swivelled, now with his back to goal, and stuck out a right boot to bring the dropping ball under his spell.

The attacking midfielder's majestic touch sent the ball spinning through the onrushing defender's legs, killing all the pace on the pass and leaving the bamboozled marker desperately scrambling to try to recover possession.

Amiri was too fast, though. He pirouetted and raced onto the ball, but the goalkeeper was equally as alert, sprinting out and spreading himself to cover the goal. Not one to miss out on scoring the goal of his career though, Amiri simply took another touch to widen his angle, and executed the cheekiest of back-heels, squeezing his shot through the shot-stopper's legs.

A Bergkamp pirouette, a double nutmeg, and a back-heel all in one goal. You couldn't ask for a better way to kick off the Puskas award for 2021. We may have already seen our winner.