Wasn't a good performance, but none of our starting forwards played well. He is a striker being asked to play on the wing. I would really like to see him play upfront. If Sancho came in to play in the next game, I wouldn't be surprised.
Agreed. I'd like to see that too.
He was a bit weak last season to play as a #9. But he's become much stronger and press resistant this season. In fact he was the only forward who didn't lose the ball a single time in the first half yesterday. And he lost it like twice during the whole match. It's very very difficult to nick the ball off him now.
He also had the most successful dribbles (4/5 attempts) in the last match, second best was Bruno and Elange (both 1/1). His passing has been pretty consistent and actually already at a very good level for a forward. Teams know he's very dangerous and would punish them if let alone that's why you often see him surrounding by 3 opponent players whenever he's near the ball.
His best period this season was when he's playing as our #9 in August. When he won our Player of the month and was nominated in the PL Player of the month but only lost to Antonio who scored like 4 goals in 3 matches that month.
Tbh I don't recall him being that selfish prior to this season. Maybe he's been trying too hard to score to have some claim on the #9.