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2025-26 Performances

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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
22
Goals
6
Assists
1
Yellow cards
1
He lacks intensity (a common theme with our players) and any striker that lacks intensity in PL is destined to fail. He needs to, very quickly, adapt to the physicality of PL and demonstrate it in return, or will end up being sold!
 
Shark said:
What are the odds of two promising young strikers being so ineffective, on the bounce? it's either crazy bad luck, poor scouting or the manager who's proven himself to be shite at this point.
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I think the odds are very high. Young strikers are mostly not very good.

Having said that we haven't helped them as much as we could either. Certainly with Hojlund we didn't. Sesko just hasn't played enough with a full strength team behind him.
 
It’s striking (pun intended) how this thread resembles Hojlund’s. Maybe it’s not so easy to be a young striker in this team. Who’d have thought.
 
Schmeichels pinky said:
It’s striking (pun intended) how this thread resembles Hojlund’s. Maybe it’s not so easy to be a young striker in this team. Who’d have thought.
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Not really... Hojlund was struggling to get service, he was not getting shots on goal.

Sesko is lacking confidence, he is getting the ball into goal scoring areas.

This is proven by the high shot to goal ratio Hojlund had.
 
Ludens the Red said:
Either way Openda generally was seen as better during their time together there . Which I presume is what @Amarsdd was suggesting. It was hardly a wild comment.
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romufc said:
Which Leipzig games did you watch last season that gave you impression he is better on the eye test?
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Openda was the one I'm referring to as well. He seemed to have had a poor second half of the season but still ended up with similar G+A to Sesko (not even mentioning the season before). And off of 3-4 games in the first couple of months last season that I caught (around the time before United sucks away my appetite for football), Openda seemed to be more involved in the games than Sesko .Though, Openda has 2-3 years on Sesko.
 
Ekeke said:
For me its a small (1 game) example of the same thing I felt about Garnacho last season. And I know that pople have a hard time not thinking about off the field stuff with him, but it was that he was constantly getting into goalscoring positions but he was missing his chances. When he first broke through into the team he was a good finisher. And given hes so young he's going to get better at finishing. Therefore he just needs to continue getting into those goalscoring positions and the goals will come. Even if he gets a few lucky ones like the Zirkzee goal, they will come. I'd be a lot more worried if hes not getting into goalscoring positions, which is what happened with Hojlund - that and the poor buildup play
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About the bolded part: in terms of actual ability, that might be correct. But that doesn't have to go hand in hand with his output. I think, one factor that is often overlooked with young players is the factor of preparation. When you are young and coming through, opposition teams and players don't know you, don't know your strength and weaknesses - but that changes after a while, depending on your "effectiveness" that while can be short. That means, that while defenders have given you a little more space in the first year and defended you "neutrally" they might know your tendencies a year later, know how much you try to avoid finishing with your weak foot, what your go to tricks are to create some space. This of course doesn't only apply to strikers and finishing.

For Sesko, thats just a smaller factor I guess, since he has decent top flight experience, this was more of a general remark.
romufc said:
Not really... Hojlund was struggling to get service, he was not getting shots on goal.

Sesko is lacking confidence, he is getting the ball into goal scoring areas.

This is proven by the high shot to goal ratio Hojlund had.
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He does, but he also doesn't get loads of them. We are still not good in terms of a somewhat structured chance creation, especially for our striker. We do well when it comes to reacting quickly, capitalize on mistakes but that may not be what Sesko really needs. Thats not me defending him or trying to lay into him. I just don't think, that a narrative of us "being quite good in chance creation because look at xG" is really telling the whole story. And don't get me wrong, I take that kind of xG over some rigid play any day of the week but a high xG is first and formost just that - a high xG. Not necessarily proof for well working attacking unit.
 
RuudTom83 said:
Terrible thread choice to discuss why United didn't score against Wolves...I'm pretty sure that will have been discussed to death in the matchday thread and the post match thread.
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Is it maybe because the chances created, easy chances created, were not taken?
 
In terms of getting used to the league, remember that Mateta also had two seasons where he didn't play and score much (5 league goals in his first season, 2 in his second), before he totally transformed. Sure it also has to do with different managers, tactics, etc. but it also shows that it's quite a big step from the Bundesliga to the EPL. And Mateta is also 6 years older than Sesko.
 
Central strikers not getting that many chances is hardly a strange thing in the modern game. In the PL of the top 10 shot takers, only 2, Haaland and Mateta are central strikers.

Sesko ranks 30th, 10th among strikers from what I can tell in shots per game.

He just isn't finishing them at the moment, but he is a far better footballer than Hojlund showed at Utd.
 
Can’t wait for the backlash after an anonymous game today. It’s incredible that we’re going into a game with him and Cunha as the only attacking options in the 11. We’re just setting him up to fail.
 
Dan_F said:
Can’t wait for the backlash after an anonymous game today. It’s incredible that we’re going into a game with him and Cunha as the only attacking options in the 11. We’re just setting him up to fail.
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City have Cherki, Foden, Reijnders, Bernardo, Savinho, Doku available to supply Haaland. We have Cunha that’s it in the whole squad. Even City’s defenders like Nunes and Gvardiol would be more creative than most of our players who will be in advanced positions today.
 
Just have to persist with him, I dismissed the idea of us signing him because he was a clearly a project not worth anything like the fees quoted. Someone who only scored 13 goals in the Bundesliga was unlikely to come to the Premier League and get more than 6 or 7 goals.

Hopefully he has a better second half of the season and gives himself something to build on going forward.
 
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So depressing to know that we're stuck with this utterly rubbish donkey as our striker for another 18 months before sending him out on loan in the hope we can recoup €20 million if we're lucky.
 
He has looked overwhelmed from the second he arrived and it’s clearly becoming more and more of a problem the longer he goes without scoring. It’s still early days he’s young, but I remain as unconvinced today as I did when we were rumoured to be interested in him.
 
He may improve but he's been dogshit so far. Ironically, Gyokeres would've been a better signing for us and Sesko for Arsenal.
 
I always like to give our new players at least a year, but I think it's clear he's not good enough.
 
Højlund had some nice, accommodating European football for a soft landing. Benny could have used some of that.
 
Just another one who is struggling with the pressure of playing for this mighty club. Badly needs a goal and to feel like fans are behind him. As per usual though, he'll get crushed until his confidence is completely gone.
 
Erics_Collar said:
So depressing to know that we're stuck with this utterly rubbish donkey as our striker for another 18 months before sending him out on loan in the hope we can recoup €20 million if we're lucky.
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Why are we stuck with him? There’s no reason why we couldn’t sell him in the summer.
 
most likely to become our Morata than Ruud. if we had Rashford 2019-20 on both sides, his link up play would be more appreciated.
 
Can't wait for when his finishing gets better. This team is not good enough yet for our main striker to keep missing the target.
 
Do wonder what the club was thinking in replacing a 21 year old who was massively overawed by the role with another of the same age who was only slightly more experienced at the top level
 
His hold-up play was better than usual, but his goalscoring instincts are almost non-existent.
 
His finishing has been awful and definitely needs to improve.

Still better than Hojlund, but a striker that doesn't score is an issue.
 
Thanks for the shit scouting again. Unbearable we paid for this super slow donkey who cant even finish or do quick three steps to win any challenge. Did the scout just watched the Youtube vids?

Would take 38yo Jamie Vardy over him. Sad state of things for us. You cant expect any results if we fill the squad with the likes of him and Dorgu.
 
Needs a few games coming in off the bench. But we've got nobody else.
 
Hold up and layoffs was good, shooting was poor. Unfortunately we have no one that can put the passes in behind for him to run for, they were just overhit or the players didn't even try them.
 
Good linkup play in the 2nd half but didnt finish well for his half chances, like the offside header and the front post pullback from Zirkzee
 
We must have the worst scouting department in world football.
Sesko, Dorgu, Ugarte…..
Sesko was garbage today for a front man. Offers nothing.
 
InspiRED said:
Just another one who is struggling with the pressure of playing for this mighty club. Badly needs a goal and to feel like fans are behind him. As per usual though, he'll get crushed until his confidence is completely gone.
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Dalot is one of the most confident players in the squad. He's still rubbish. Mentality can only take you so far before a lack of ability kicks in and I've seen nothing from this guy to suggest he's anywhere near Premier League standard. He's a worse player than Calvert-Lewin and people were having a fit at the idea of signing him on a free in the summer.
 
Definitely not the one, but we can't afford to do anything about it for at least the next two/three windows besides an experienced cheap signing.
 
Well he wasn't anonymous, I guess. He showed he's not very good in front of goal and doesn't have very good awareness. Some decent hold up, but couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo.
 
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