2021/22 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

[BlueToff]

Never really rated him. That’s not because he’s having a poor season just his goals always seem to have quite a bit of luck about them. When the luck runs out, like now, he offers nothing.
He’s had a bad injury yes. But he’s had 11 games since then and If I’m being honest, I can’t even remember him having a chance or doing anything.

What's lucky about a well-worked move that he's on the end of to finish off ffs

 

[BlueToff]

God, so lucky!

 

[MACCA75]

No, they weren't

That first one, he didn't touch the ball in the move until he missed an open goal from six yards out.

The second was from a set-piece.

If you're on about Sterling

then of course, he can score a wider variety of goals, he's a good player. A lot of his goals are tap ins, though, as a lot of City goals are. And they count for exactly the same.

I was just on about his goals generally. He adds so much to the City team that any comparison with DCL is pointless.

 

[BlueToff]

And if you want to just judge on what having him playing, even when he's playing badly, does for the team

Five of our eight league wins this season - he's been in the side

 

[LocalNative]

What a goal though. Danced past 3 players and drilled it into the top corner from outside the box.

Nah, it was a 2 yard tap in that bobbled in off the keepers arse, like all his are.

We've missed those '2 yard tap ins' this season mate. If DCL had've been fully fit we certainly wouldn't be in the position we're currently in.

 

[street end]

Seems to be a lot being said about him going to Arsenal but if we can get him fit and scoring again he could be the difference in us staying up, 2 yard tap ins or not they all count.

 

[BlueToff]

I was just on about his goals generally. He adds so much to the City team that any comparison with DCL is pointless.

He's a great player, like every great player, he scores a lot of tap ins. The point of a great team is they get the ball as close to goal as possible and then score.

 

[BlueToff]

We've missed those '2 yard tap ins' this season mate. If DCL had've been fully fit we certainly wouldn't be in the position we're currently in.

I agree though, as evidenced by what I posted earlier, we just haven't created a lot of those chances.

the ones we have created, have either been missed recently and, ironically, not by DCL, or have resulted in a goal - i.e. VdB's cutback for DCL v Leeds which resulted in Coleman scoring

 

[Moderatelywarmwater]

He's a great player, like every great player, he scores a lot of tap ins. The point of a great team is they get the ball as close to goal as possible and then score.

Just need to get
him back being that great player.
let’s hope we get the chance next season and that he doesn’t up sticks and leave.

 

[BlueToff]

Just need to get
him back being that great player.
let’s hope we get the chance next season and that he doesn’t up sticks and leave.

I think we need to sell him either way and he has been poor since his return from injury. But he's hardly returned, that's the point. He just can't keep fit because a) he had no pre-season b) he didn't train at the start of the season between games because he had a broken toe and was playing with injections and c) he suffered a really serious injury

It's clearly impacted him mentally on the pitch. He doesn't look to have that ability to push himself, for whatever reason. Now our fans, fickle as a lot are, will automatically assume that means he wants gone and just can't be bothered. But he's a professional athlete who through his time here has done nothing but have to prove people - including myself - wrong, and work hard to carry on improving. He's always been a target for aggro from our fans. And even last year when he scored 20+ it was "well he only scores tap ins" like that's the easiest thing in the world, when we literally saw our other best player miss an open goal this time last week.

He's not been good, but came back from injury initially into a side playing with no confidence under a terrible manager with the fans in disarray, after said manager, and fans and others around the club had put all of the pressure, publicly, on it all to be on him. How many times did Benitez say "it'll be better in the 2nd half of the season when Dominic is back".

Then he's been hit and miss under Lampard, and the situation has got worse but 5/8 games we've won in this sorry season he has played a part in, and he's played a huge part in one of those wins setting up the winner. He needs to push through the issues, we need him to, he needs to perform, but can't be arsed with the stick he gets because it's boring and ridiculous from the same people who have always wanted an excuse to have a dig. But Evertonians tend to do that with our best players.

 

[matty1878]

give us his best keep us up. then summer decide then

 

[Bluerover]

God, so lucky!

It is now 2022 mate

 

[BlueToff]

It is now 2022 mate

Yeah and he's played 13 games, made 12 starts.

He's had an awful season, derailed by injury and then he came back to a struggling team, and he's still not got back to fitness because the injury was so bad (and mishandled, he should have had surgery but that's on him too I guess), and he's short on confidence. He also came back into a team that wasn't creating any quality chances, as I evidenced earlier.

he's missed one good chance that's come his way since Lampard took over that I can think of and that was against West Ham. It was a difficult one but he should have got it on target at least rather than hit the bar, just like Richarlison three days later at Burnley when he hit the post when it should have been 3-1.

 

[Bluerover]

Yeah and he's played 13 games, made 12 starts.

He's had an awful season, derailed by injury and then he came back to a struggling team, and he's still not got back to fitness because the injury was so bad (and mishandled, he should have had surgery but that's on him too I guess), and he's short on confidence. He also came back into a team that wasn't creating any quality chances, as I evidenced earlier.

he's missed one good chance that's come his way since Lampard took over that I can think of and that was against West Ham. It was a difficult one but he should have got it on target at least rather than hit the bar, just like Richarlison three days later at Burnley when he hit the post when it should have been 3-1.

Fair enough mate

 

[ToffeeTim]

Yeah and he's played 13 games, made 12 starts.

He's had an awful season, derailed by injury and then he came back to a struggling team, and he's still not got back to fitness because the injury was so bad (and mishandled, he should have had surgery but that's on him too I guess), and he's short on confidence. He also came back into a team that wasn't creating any quality chances, as I evidenced earlier.

he's missed one good chance that's come his way since Lampard took over that I can think of and that was against West Ham. It was a difficult one but he should have got it on target at least rather than hit the bar, just like Richarlison three days later at Burnley when he hit the post when it should have been 3-1.

He missed a pen as well tbf

But its not about chances. Its been about application and effort.