Bukayo Saka is a forward for Arsenal and England, a product of the club’s Hale End academy who broke through as a teenager and quickly became the side’s creative and emotional linchpin. Deployed most often from the right, he cuts inside onto his stronger left foot to shoot and thread passes, though he can operate on either flank or at full-back.
Precocious end product, a willingness to take defenders on and a maturity beyond his years marked him early. He has grown into a fixture of the England team, a survivor of the disappointment of a missed penalty at a European final who returned stronger, and one of the Premier League’s most consistent providers of goals and assists.