Lineker Goes All Dunphy And Burnley Fans Toast Jeff Hendrick As He Scores His First PL Goal

Ok, Monday Night Football was pretty much taken over by one man, but that didn't stop Ireland's Jeff Hendrick from shining beneath the floodlights: he scored his first Premier League goal for Burnley against Watford.

Hendrick's goal was a cracking header from a corner, leaning back to somehow generate the neck strength to head home from 12 yards.

While Hendrick took a long time to get his first international goal - the first came against Serbia earlier this month - he has wasted little time in getting off the mark in the Premier League.

Jamie Carragher praised Hendrick's first-half finish, and there were plenty of a similar persuasion online, too, with one account digging up quite the stat:

Hendrick's just the tonic for Burnley.

— Gary Lineker 💙💛 (@GaryLineker) September 26, 2016

Home goals this season:

Jeff Hendrick - 1
Entire Derby County squad - 1 pic.twitter.com/WMP1x5vvPH

— bet365 (@bet365) September 26, 2016

Hendrick for the ballon d'or

— Mark Farrelly (@MarkFarrelly131) September 26, 2016

Jeff Hendrick > Paul pogba

— Peter Fitzsimons (@P3fitz) September 26, 2016

To be fair, very few people made the classic Eamon Dunphy error:

With more preferring to meditate upon hs hair:

Has there ever been an Irish international with better hair than Hendrick? https://t.co/MwkwyH55qO

— Tommy Martin (@TommyMartinVM) September 26, 2016

When you have hair as good as Hendrick you deserve goals like that. #BURWAT

— Jim Kaufman (@Jim_Kaufman) September 26, 2016

Proper wanna stroke Jeff Hendrick's hair

— meg (@bakushka_) September 26, 2016

Congrats, Jeff. The first of many.

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