I forget who is punditing. We get Robbie Mustoe, Robbie Earl, Lee Dixon and Graeme Le Saux most of the time.
It's worse than that. They put a normal timeframe on an injury, then rush the player back and he gets injured again. Watch their next one. It'll be, for example, 3 months. The player will be back in six weeks and then out straight away for another 2 months, at least.
I did. He was very, very poor before he conceded the free kick for the first goal and was **** thereafter.
A similar sentence has been used time and again over the past decade, yet every time they seem to conspire to gift the Chavs three points. Not sure why that sounds familiar...
He may not be able to do it as well as strikers who fetch £30m+ on the market, but his record suggests that he could do it better than most PL level strikers, which in turn would suggest that he can do it better than a johnny-on-the-spot makeshift defender turned midfielder turned striker. This reminds me of our debate last season about who would be better at leading the line in Kane's absence - Chadli or Defoe? I stand by my opinion then (and I see you're sticking to yours too ), that there is simply no comparison between a seasoned, experienced striker who has played up top all his life, and someone who looks and feels like a striker from the outside but has the brain of a midfielder within.
Quite simply, Defoe still does what he does best. What he's always done in the PL. he scores goals!....
Of course he does. He spends his whole time not helping the team but in a part of the pitch where if he gets the ball he is dangerous. He has the pace to turn that into goals. But that doesn't necessarily make him a valuable team member. I still think that if we had the choice of say Lamela or Erikssen or Defoe as our 'striker' then Defoe would likely score more goals than either of them but we'd win more matches without him. Measuring your strikers on how many goals they score isn't sensible. It can even cause the wrong decision making in matches. Janssen obviously had such things on his mind when he failed to put Lamela in for any easy goal on Sunday and instead shot himself. But if had had put Lamela in there would be people posting on here saying he 'still hadn't scored'.
He's a great impact sub. No I wouldn't start him in our current side, unless injuries made that essential. Strikers, like Defoe, score goals. He's proved that time and again at PL level. And Goals are what win matches!....
