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2025-26 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
32
Goals
12
Assists
1
Yellow cards
1
Loved that header on the weekend. Great strikers goal.
 
Flying high, he’s on the move,
Six foot five, he’s got the groove!
When he scores, we all unite,
Watch him soar - it’s pure delight!

Air Šeško! Air Šeško!
Taking off to score again!
Air Šeško! Air Šeško!
He’s the one we’ll cheer for!
 
There’s another chant going about to the tune of Zombie as well.

I’m so glad we got him. Unicorn. 6ft 5, Rapid, good touch and link up.
 
0le said:
Loved that header on the weekend. Great strikers goal.
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This has been the thing I’ve really loved: all his goals in 2026 have been great striker’s goals; all different but all superb: the quick dash into the box and finish followed by a second with superb body control and placement against Burnley; the control, swivel and shot placement against Fulham; the delightful half-volley against West Ham; the counterattack sprint and clinical finish against Everton; the thumping header against Paalce. Great to see
 
jem said:
This has been the thing I’ve really loved: all his goals in 2026 have been great striker’s goals; all different but all superb: the quick dash into the box and finish followed by a second with superb body control and placement against Burnley; the control, swivel and shot placement against Fulham; the delightful half-volley against West Ham; the counterattack sprint and clinical finish against Everton; the thumping header against Paalce. Great to see
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Only thing missing is one of them thunder fecks that we saw at Leipzig
 
Try crossing to him maybe? A few days ago we saw what he can do with a proper cross. Wasn’t tried once I think? Most of the crosses that were put in were deep for the back post for some reason.
 
We needed a tall, physical, in-form striker at the top of the pitch.

We had a tall, physical, in-form striker at the top of the pitch. But nobody really tried to find him all game. I'm worried that, other than Bruno, nobody is actually that good at spotting and assisting other players. Bruno has 14 assists. After that, it is Mbuemo...with 3.

In short, if other teams nullify Bruno, they take apart our whole supply chain.
 
Our only crosses were towards other players. Casemiro for the goal, Yoro for a good headed chance. There was one early in the first half at about 10 mins that Cunha beat the fullback and put a great ball in towards the 6 yard box but it was one of those that are actually hard to get to and not near where Sesko was in the middle.
 
Mike Smalling said:
Try crossing to him maybe? A few days ago we saw what he can do with a proper cross. Wasn’t tried once I think? Most of the crosses that were put in were deep for the back post for some reason.
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You'd think that. It would certainly make more sense than aiming over the box to the other wide player or lofting it onto Dan Burns head.
 
I didn't think he played particularly badly. Half decent first half.

But when he starts, our pressing from the front falls to pieces.

His goals have been important, but I think we look a better side when he doesn't starts. Cunha, Amad, Mbuemo do a much better job of getting us up the field, and turning the ball over closer to their box.
 
Started off well then disappeared. The whole team is just at each others throats at the moment and confidence players like Sesko seem to be up and down

Want to see something change. Think Sesko still need to start, would try 4-3-3 with Amad and Cunha expected to stay wide and Bruno in midfield with Case and Ugarte
 
We're absolutely terrible at moving the ball quickly to get it out wide, creating overlaps and creating good crossing positions.

Really no wonder he has games completely starved of service.
 
Thought he was very good for basically getting 0 service. The absolute reluctance for us to cross the fecking ball to the 6'5 unit in the box unless it's Bruno drives me up a wall. Mbuemo and Cunha want to do all their bullshit running yet refuse to just send it up to the big lad and let him have a go.
 
His hold up play and layoffs are getting really good. Suppose it's just the increased confidence
 
sammyhol said:
I didn't think he played particularly badly. Half decent first half.

But when he starts, our pressing from the front falls to pieces.

His goals have been important, but I think we look a better side when he doesn't starts. Cunha, Amad, Mbuemo do a much better job of getting us up the field, and turning the ball over closer to their box.
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Thought Mbeumo was the worst at this. A bunch of times he half heartedly pressed Hall and Hall easily went past him and won some freekicks too
 
Superunknown said:
We needed a tall, physical, in-form striker at the top of the pitch.

We had a tall, physical, in-form striker at the top of the pitch. But nobody really tried to find him all game. I'm worried that, other than Bruno, nobody is actually that good at spotting and assisting other players. Bruno has 14 assists. After that, it is Mbuemo...with 3.

In short, if other teams nullify Bruno, they take apart our whole supply chain.
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This is why I wanted Bruno to leave in the summer. Not because he's a bad player, he's actually our best. But for years now we have become so dependant on this guy for everything that it feels like we suffers as a team unable to move forward. Because we put everything through him, and once he's nullified we look like absolute dogshit everytime without fail.

I'm actually looking forward to the day we evolve as a team and are able to go through the whole team, instead of hoping Bruno pulls out a miracle everytime. Poor guy must have the worst back the ways he's had us on it for the longest time.
 
L1nk said:
This is why I wanted Bruno to leave in the summer. Not because he's a bad player, he's actually our best. But for years now we have become so dependant on this guy for everything that it feels like we suffers as a team unable to move forward. Because we put everything through him, and once he's nullified we look like absolute dogshit everytime without fail.

I'm actually looking forward to the day we evolve as a team and are able to go through the whole team, instead of hoping Bruno pulls out a miracle everytime. Poor guy must have the worst back the ways he's had us on it for the longest time.
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You're going to be in for a rude awakening when we go from depending on 1 player to not having a player to depend on.
 
Really disappointed he was the only player in the box at times. Didn't stand a chance tonight.
 
Mike Smalling said:
Try crossing to him maybe? A few days ago we saw what he can do with a proper cross. Wasn’t tried once I think? Most of the crosses that were put in were deep for the back post for some reason.
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They probably would have put crosses in if sesko was subbed off. Which bizarrely weve seen happen before
 
sammyhol said:
but I think we look a better side when he doesn't starts.
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The entire reason Sesko ended up starting is because we were playing absolute dogshit and didn't look like scoring (West Ham, Everton), and had to keep subbing him on to rescue the game.

Now, we're still shit when he starts.

We're just not very good at football, unfortunately.
 
Dominos said:
The entire reason Sesko ended up starting is because we were playing absolute dogshit and didn't look like scoring (West Ham, Everton), and had to keep subbing him on to rescue the game.

Now, we're still shit when he starts.

We're just not very good at football, unfortunately.
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I don't disagree. I do think that bringing him in off the bench has merit though. The opposition has to adjust a lot more to deal with a tall, fast, no.9 coming on fresh in the last 40 minutes or so than they would for a different type of player or like-for-like replacement. Don't get me wrong, I think he's great - I just think it's a tactic that worked well for us so far.
 
No idea why he tried to play in Amad like that, but he keeps doing what’s needed. If he can finish on 12 league goals, it’s an excellent first season, given the shit we played under Amorim.
 
Starting so many games from the bench, and always managing to sniff out chances and finish them when coming on is extremely commendable. His goals/minute ratio under Fletcher and Carrick must be insane by now.

He needs to improve his decision making when he has time, because there is a trend of him messing it up. But I'm not too worried about it. That is something that can become better with experience.
 
A striker's goal, a very important one right when Villa were going to throw everything at us. Messed up the second attempt pretty badly, should always back himself in those positions. Should've gotten the ball from Amad for a third chance, made a good run. All in all, another good display for him.
 
That miss after his goal and there was another similar miss against another team should have him in double figures. He does seem to be a bit immature in his play and maybe mentality. Needs some coaching but the talent is there.
 
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