Arsenal star Leandro Trossard compared to club legend for one very specific quirk

London, England - October 22: Leandro Trossard of Arsenal controls the ball during the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League Phase MD3 match between Arsenal FC and FC Shakhtar Donetsk at Emirates Stadium on October 22, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Ryan Crockett/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)
Trossard in the Champions League (Image credit: Getty Images)

Arsenal star Leandro Trossard has been compared to a club legend, following the Gunners' 1-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League on Tuesday night.

Trossard played the vast majority of the match against the Ukrainians, with Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta substituting him off for Jorginho in the 88th minute of the match. That's after he missed a penalty ten minutes before, with his weak effort kept out by Dmytro Riznyk.

Earlier on in the match, though, Trossard surprised fans more when stepping up to take a corner, earning him comparisons with Santi Cazorla.

Arsenal star Leandro Trossard compared to Santi Cazorla

Leandro Trossard of Arsenal during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Leicester City FC at Emirates Stadium on September 28, 2024 in London, England.

Trossard played most of the game against Shakhtar (Image credit: Crystal Pix/MB Media/Getty Images)

In the sixth minute of the match, Trossard prepared to take a corner from the right side of the pitch. Naturally a right-footer, the Belgian instead stepped up to deliver an inswinger with his left, which landed right in the middle of the six yard box and caused plenty of confusion within the Shakhtar Donetsk defence.

In doing so, Arsenal fans immediately noticed the resemblance to Santi Cazorla. Extremely comfortably and adept with both feet, Cazorla would often use both his left and right foot to take corners while playing in the Premier League between 2012 and 2019.

Santi Cazorla playing for Arsenal in the Premier League as a midfielder

Cazorla was a brilliant technician

Famously against Watford in the final few months of time at Arsenal, then Gunners captain Laurent Koscielney instructed the midfielder to take a corner with his left foot, despite having already lined up to take it with his right.

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But while Cazorla fails to make the exclusive club of players to score a penalty in the Premier League with both feet, which contains just Bobby Zamora and Obafemi Martins, he did prove his credentials while at Al-Sadd in 2022. He produced a delicate panenka with his 'weaker' left foot in Qatar, proving he can do whatever he wants with both feet.

Perhaps Trossard should have followed his predecessor's lead at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday, improving upon his tame penalty effort with an altogether more thorough strike with his left.

Ryan Dabbs
Staff writer

Ryan is a staff writer for FourFourTwo, joining the team full-time in October 2022. He first joined Future in December 2020, working across FourFourTwo, Golf Monthly, Rugby World and Advnture's websites, before eventually earning himself a position with FourFourTwo permanently. After graduating from Cardiff University with a degree in Journalism and Communications, Ryan earned a NCTJ qualification to further develop as a writer while a Trainee News Writer at Future.