Power n Glory wrote:theHotHead wrote:His goal proves there is nothing wrong with his technique, he is just largely ineffectual against decent teams. He finished last season well, but the gap between him and Saka/Martinelli is huge in terms of contribution.
Define contribution? He's not in behind for combined goals and assists contribution. Pepe was ahead of everyone in the team for goals and assists combined last season.
He just needs to stay focused and stop the showpony stuff. Last game was a good example. Opposition was low but he wasn't trying to beat every player with every touch twice over and then score. He used his team mates more and that's what he has to learn.
Not in the PL.
In the entire season last year he got 1 assist and 10 goals.
He ended the season well, scoring 5 in his last 5 games, but for most of the season he was not very good.
That said, he did end well so he was in the team at the start of this season.
For the entire first two months of this season he started and was absolutely dreadful and was rightly dropped.
So yeah - he needs to contribute a hell of a lot more to get anywhere close to the first team in the PL.