Considering our run of results with him in the team I don’t see it as the huge problem everyone seems to think it is. Our goals per game seems to have increased, if anything, since he was added to the squad. Including 4 goals in two games against the best defence in Europe so far this season.
Now obviously there are much better strikers out there and he is clearly not a long term solution but he definitely hasn’t been the handicap so many of you seem to think he is.
You only look at result which didn't give the full picture.
It's not like we can play Weghorst with our reserve players, and he carried our team to victory in those run of good result.
In reality, the key players of the team performed and carry Weghorst. Our key players hardly got any rest! Even the West Ham game where Weghorst had a good individual performance, we're losing and required more key players to come to the rescue . The final score covered over the crack that game could have gone into extra time/replay if we had less luck or West Ham made less mistake. Need to throw in key players (Bruno played the whole game), and go into 90th minute to decide the game can be seen as a misstep: too little rest for key players after the hectic schedule and Liverpool game coming up next!
Weghorst can have decent performance because of the platform, not because he's the cornerstone of the system. However, when we met our match and our key players got their hands busy, WW simply stuck out as out of depth. Arsenal easily contained him. Against Leeds 2 times (rivalry when they raise their game), during Weghorst time as forward, we couldn't defeat Leeds high line and high pressing tactic. Cost us 2 point. Against Barcelona first leg, Xavi messed up with starting Alba and Alonso together on the left side of the defense. Rashford terrorized them there tactically which covered over the crack for Weghorst meh performance. Second leg, half time substitution is very self explained. Even against Newcastle where the team had a professional performance, and Weghorst has one of his better game too. We were clinical to make the most out of the chances to kill the game, or the game was just a stalemate. We didn't dominate or create clear more than Newcastle. A quality delivery from Shaw and Casemiro well anticipation (why was it not Weghorst?). Rashford goal is from a very difficult angle.
The rest of the opposition we were expected to get good result from them, and we did, but we rarely made it easy for ourselves in those games too. For example, Leicester game. That first half could have gone wrong on another day, especially the first 20 minutes. Faes disasterclass helped us to decide the game, the dominating performance after 2-0 covered the crack the issue we have with this hipster tactic. And Liverpool may be another wake up call. Even if we had scored in those chances we created this game, Liverpool today looked like they're gonna go at us for the whole 90, so the issue we created ourselves would be exposed one way or another regardless of result. Even if hypothetically the result was only 2-0, 3-0, not 7-0, we're tactically bankrupted playing like that with Weghorst until he got subbed.