Options...different players, different opponents. Knocking Calvert Lewin for today’s performance misses the point....it WAS the right decision to start him ahead of Keane. That’s Silva’s only real decision when it comes to who starts and leads the line. Is DCL good enough now as a finished product.....? Don’t embarrass yourself by answering and saying what we can see.....but neither is Keane. Or Tosun, or Niasse, or Simms or Gordon for those that way offering help.
Winning headers and chasing your own flick on doesn’t reflect well on the team, never mind Calver-Lewin. He had previous in terms of days dominant displays against City....and for me did well today. Is he the long term answer....I actually don’t know, but I remember Sharp in his early years.....memories can be kind years later, especially when you’ve been part of a magical period. The lad is competing and leading the line ahead of the £27m we lavished on Tosun, the not so insignificant sum wasted on Niasse, who was in our top five record signings at the time of his purchase and is taking the pressure of Kean as he adjusts. For those that don’t rate him, I can assure you that he’d become a much better player overnight if he were (hopefully not) to get injured and miss the next six weeks.
My point is, he is a key part of this team as it stands, worth an awful lot more than when we bought him and is having his best ever season in a Blue shirt. Is what he is doing so bad? Time to realise where we are as a team and where he is.