I thought he did quite well in what I saw of his debut. I didn't see all the game, missed both the opening and the final 20 mins and only caught bits of the rest whilst getting ready to go out, but it seemed to me that we were at least trying to get a lot more players in support of him. This makes a hell of a difference to a striker playing up top on his own.
DCL is getting a lot of unwarranted stick on this forum. I'm glad we brought in another striker because DCL needed taking out of the firing line for a while, but I'm not yet convinced that Cenk is the massive upgrade that some in here seem to think. I'll wait until I see how he deals with the hoof football and zero support that DCL has endured all season before making that call.
I'm hoping he'll at least carry a bit more goal threat than DCL, but after Saturday's result I can see Allardyce reverting to type in the next few games so I'm expecting Cenk to find life a bit more lonely than he's used to.