2019/20 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

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DCL 79 games 11 goals.
Niasse 31 games 8 goals.
Niasse gets stick and DCL rarely does, I see that changing though, he’s been around long enough now he should be doing much better.

Niasse isn't 22. He hasn't dominated defences in the way Calvert Lewin has helping us to big wins and his hold up play and all-round football ability is atrocious.

Scoring goals is his strongest suit, and it's DCL's weakest.
 

Niasse isn't 22. He hasn't dominated defences in the way Calvert Lewin has helping us to big wins and his hold up play and all-round football ability is atrocious.

Scoring goals is his strongest suit, and it's DCL's weakest.

Bahahahahahaha
 
Don't want to get into the DCL vs Niasse debate - it's like deciding whether you want your wedding tackle traumatically removed with a machete or lumberjack's axe.

Surely everyone must accept by now that DCL (game trier as he is) has absolutely no goal scoring instinct at all. What struck me today was his exaggerated reputation for hold-up play. Frequently he gets the ball with only one defender on him, with a team mate on either side, each loosely tracked by a defender, with loads of space for DCL to pass into or where his mates might run. In those circumstances, you've just got to get off a pass within one or two touches because with every second more defenders than attackers will turn up and space will shrink. Instead, he takes 4,5 or 6 (admittedly neat) touches and then passes it backwards. In effect, he's the opposition's guarantee against counter attack and yet gets praise for good hold-up play.

Vexed (but nothing personal agin DCL).
 

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