I'm sorry but why is that odd to say?
Niasse even now is our hardest working player on the pitch. He is the only one that looks arsed and tries to do something. He is also our only other league goalscorer and only real striker we have .
We are beyond the point of making jokes about niasse , he is miles ahead of lewen who is yet to score a league goal for us but still starts ahead of niasse.
If half the team played with the spirit niasse brings to the shirt we wouldn't be in this mess. It's the fact none of them, not even returning hero Rooney looks arsed about losing . They all expect it, the only one who doesn't is the same one at 4 2 last week still runs back yo the centre circle with the ball when time is almost up when his team mates had given up 30 minutes before that .