I genuinely cant get my head round this thinking of barry being dreadful.
Hand on heart i think this idea comes from people watching his first few poor games for us and making up their mind and now unable to change it.
We dont create anything for strikers in this team and leave them isolated. Even so hes got 3 goals in 13 starts for us and those 3 come in his last 7 games. He also very good in the air wining 45% of his aerial duels. Maybe if we crossed a ball to him now and then we might see a bit more return on him.
If he carrys on with that form were looking at 4 in his last 17 games so 7 goals in 30 games. 1 in 4 in a youngster first season in the league in a team that doesnt create chances? I think that a good return tbh.
Like I say, I truely hope you are right and I am wrong.
What I will say though is he might win 45% of his headers but he’s got a head like a 50p piece.
I’ve seen nothing about him that works as a target man (might not be his game / fault tbf - same as Beto)
But his movement around the box has been so so poor too, and for 6.4 he carry’s on like big pudding.
Couple (
literally a couple) of ½ decent lay offs and the ball bouncing off his head doesn’t convince me.
I thought it was really telling in Garners post match interview when Barry scored against Forest, he said he just prayed Barry would score, now you could take take as wanting the best for his teammate / team, but I wonder whether it was more he didn’t really trust him to score.
He certainly made it look difficult with the pretty poor ball to garner to begin with and nearly tripling over his feet trying to control the perfect return pass.
