Overview
- The 35-year-old put Brentford 1-0 up at the Gtech Community Stadium before Dominic Calvert-Lewin secured a 1-1 result for Leeds late on.
- After scoring, Henderson sat cross-legged and mimed a controller in a direct nod to Jota’s trademark celebration.
- He told Sky Sports, “It was his [Jota’s] birthday recently, we’ll never forget him… he was a good friend,” as he dedicated the goal.
- The strike was his first Premier League goal since December 2021 and made him Brentford’s oldest Premier League scorer at 35 years and 180 days.
- Henderson and Jota spent three years together at Liverpool, and the midfielder had previously laid flowers at Anfield after Jota and his brother died in a July car crash in Spain.