E-mal
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My opinion has always been we need a better more experienced striker and he needs to learn his trade without pressure. He is not the type to make his own chances like Martial at tha age.Garnacho, Rashford and Antony get the ball about 20-30 times in a game and take ridiculous shots, put in poor crosses and dribble into defenders. How about they try to create a bit more? Garnacho put in one cross today and it found Maguire for the first goal.
Nobody in this team or the manager is 'good enough', Hojlund included but at least he's not wasting every chance he gets with the ball. Everybody needs to improve but people who criticise him without acknowledging how much worse others are doing in relation with their usage of the ball is shocking.
I said this in the match day thread but Hojlund might make 5 'bad' runs and 5 'good' runs but he will only get the ball about once. He gets to fail or succeed with that one chance compared to everyone else who gets it about 20-30 times more AFTER he is the one who lays it off or is occupying the central space so they have all the time in the world in the wings.
Today he had one through ball in the 1st half and should have got off a better shot away imo i.e did 'poor' and then in the 2nd half got a perfect through ball from Bruno to score. Two clear chances and this is already anomalous compared to the previous couple of dozen games.
Hojlund deserves plenty of criticism but people writing him off is just bad basic level judgement.
Obviously we need to improve the whole team starting with our CB and Midfield