The state of this thread.
Who would have thought that our constantly improving 24 year old England International striker has scored in each of the 2 opening premier league games for the second year running. Who would have thought that Dom had just won and then subsequently scored a penalty, forced the Leeds keeper into 2 outstanding saves, and was a thorn in the Leeds defence the whole game.
Not many going by regular contributors to GOT. Since the game ended yesterday there have been an incredible 47 negative posts in this thread from 23 different posters (a special mention to
@Kurt for contributing 15 to the total). I haven't even included any from the matchday thread lol.By negative, I mean posts that are overly critical of the lad, that don't rate him as a Premier league standard striker, or that actually blame him for Everton not winning the game yesterday. I have not included those numerous posts that were just expressing an opinion that one on ones are not a strong side to his game and an area he needs to improve on. These are genuine opinions on a player that is not yet the finished article.
Dom is a player who cost us practically nothing, has shown a marked improvement year on year since he joined us, is generally accepted as understudy to the world class Harry Kane in the national team, and has never done or said anything that could remotely offend our overly sensitive fan base, except from his choice of fashion wear of course.
His aerial ability and movement in the box is second to none in the Premier league, and I do mean second to none. We have a manager now who seems to want to play a style that will create chances for him, like we did at the beginning of last season. If we continue in that vein and Dom stays fit, I fully expect him to score 20+ goals this season.
Even that wouldn't be enough for some on here though who seemingly think he should be scoring every opportunity that comes his way for some bizarre reason. The two chances yesterday were snap shots that he didn't even have time to think about, which is usually his pitfall. The first he did great to get ahead of the defender and redirect the cross goal bound, and the second the keeper did brilliantly to close him down and make the opportunity much more difficult. It's the one on ones from outside the box when he's through on goal that he needs to get more proficient with, I think it's a composure thing. He can improve and proved it yesterday with the composure he showed for the penalty.
For now, I am more than happy with where Dom is in his development. I've always defended the lad on here but even I admit he has become a better player than I ever expected, and I'm confident there is even more improvement to come from him. If he does then we'll find it hard to keep hold of him for much longer, then all the ones cryarsing now will have something else to whinge about.
