1950 wrote:guv111 wrote:He could cost us the league all on his own. It wouldn't matter so much that Aguero and Balotelli drift in and out of games if we had a big up-and-at-'em striker in the Shearer mold, who could brush aside all the self indulgent mincing about and just get on with banging in a few goals when needed. It's meat and potatoes stuff.
Instead, we have Dzeko who joins in with the general aimlessness, and contributes nothing in the process. If ever a striker's goalscoring record this season was misleading, it's Dzeko's.
So, it's his fault he's being shoehorned into a role he quite obviously can't fill? Why don't people expect Balotelli to be the lump upfront? He's just as tall.
Balotelli doesn't do a targetman job either but the difference in the way he brought down the hump upfield v Spurs & headed into the box for the pen was obvious when compared to Dzeko. Either Edin starts to play a more solid game or we replace him with someone who can do it next season imo. He's too airy fairy at the moment. He wasn't alone in shiteness tonight & no worse than the others but he should have been outstanding against two shortarse non entity CB's. It was ideal for him to dominate & demand the ball. He did neither. Tonight should have been his night. We needed him.