May 13, 2022 marks a decade since Sergio Aguero scored a stoppage-time winner on the final match of the season to hand Manchester City their first-ever Premier League title.
But that moment was also famous for another first: Mario Balotelli providing an assist in the English top flight.
In fact, in 70 Premier League matches for City and later Liverpool, that pass for Aguero marked the only time he set up a team-mate to score a goal.
Balotelli, just a day after turning 20, completed a move to City in August 2010 from winning the Treble with Inter, and immediately endeared himself to his new fans.
He helped City win the FA Cup in his first season – their first major trophy for 35 years – which set them on their way to domestic dominance.
The following campaign he scored 13 league goals, including a famous double in a 6-1 win at Old Trafford in which he revealed a t-shirt bearing the words: ‘Why Always Me?’ which has become a folkloric moment in English football history, before providing that memorable assist against Queens Park Rangers on the final day.
He left to join Milan midway through the following campaign but returned to the Premier League with Liverpool in summer of 2014 where he scored just once in 16 appearances and didn’t contribute any assists before re-joining the Rossoneri.
Balotelli has since played for Nice, Marseille, Brescia, Monza and now Turkish side Adana Demirspor.