Some of those aren't facts though, they're subjective opinions. 'Was better in the air' can't be a fact. I'm not knocking DCL, but confusing facts and opinions doesn't really help the argument.
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Who else would he have picked ? Niasse ? Kean? Kean hasn’t shown much and DCL just had what will end up being the best 10 game spell of his playing career
Well our most expensive striker only scored that dreaded 15 goals in a crap midfield behind the pair of them - y point is put those two in a top five side they would get many more chances and the odd missed chance would be not as crucial as goals would come, because ATM they feed on scraps .......a midfield is an engine room for success on chances provided.....plus they should be scoring too to get in the top six in the league in Carlo we trust he has fetched in three different midfielders already imo we now need a winger with pace plus cover at right back ......or at Centre half ....
Also when we get 1-0 up we hopefully have the capacity to get a 2nd goal .....to kill games off.....
Yeah that defo influences peoples opinions a lot. Thing is though, all top strikers miss a bunch of sitters, it's a symptom of getting in a lot of good scoring positions...which is what top strikers do!
Fair, I guess it depends on what you'd call 'better in the air' which could change person to person. He had a higher aerial duel win rate than Richarlison last season (46% to 35%) though (they're both really good at this though)
Took better shots ? How do you come to that conclusion?
I hope Dominic Calvert-Lewin has a terrible game on Sunday so I can come on here and post "See! I told you he was crap!". Now, I don't hope that at all really. What I do hope, is that the lad can 'hit the ground running' against Spurs and bag a couple of goals for us... and that's because I always want our players to do well and I always want Everton to win.
DCL is one of the last players I would want to see running through 1-1 with the gk. It shouldn’t be like that
Scored same amount of goals in less time, DCL's shots were much more likely to be in better scoring positions than Richarlison's, *and* he had a higher conversion rate
This is true but I think because DCL is quite an awkward mover when he fluffs a chance it looks horrible. I don’t remember Richarlison missing anything where I’ve thought ‘my god how’s he missed that?’.
I think also Richarlison scores much sexier goals though so any misses he makes get erased by the memory of his boss header from the edge of the box against or his dribbling from the halfway line and calmly slotting in the corner whereas Dom tends to score a lot of bundled in goals.
Goals are goals though and I’d take 20 scruffy goals over 19 worldies next season if it means we win more games so fingers crossed James and co. supply him!
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Aerial duel win rate only shows winning the header and not what comes of it though, most would say richy was better in the air because he actually directs his headers whereas Lewin who has a great leap and wins a lot of his headers just flicks them to nowhere, if he was as good as dunc or Cahill at it he’d actually probably score about 10 headers a season
Not the case over the last 4 seasons at least - but it's not much in it and they're both elite at this (both in top 10 in the prem in terms of making stuff happen from aerial duels)
(edit: worth noting this is for headers in the box)
If he gets back to his pre-lockdown form then he will have a great season.
If he plays like he did post-lockdown, he will struggle. He wasn't sharp at all.
He set the benchmark though at times last season and needs another double figures season.
If he plays like he did post-lockdown, he will struggle. He wasn't sharp at all.
He set the benchmark though at times last season and needs another double figures season.
Better shots based on his goals ? One was kicked into him by a gk , one was a tackle , one was basically over the line from Coleman’s chip and his open goal against Newcastle he missed the ball with his foot and luckily his momentum meant the ball rolled from the underside of his leg and went in niasse style. I wouldn’t call any of them shots to be honest. Richy scores some very good finishes , and scored a couple of cracking headers .. his quality of his finishing is one of his strongest qualities while for DCL it’s by far his weakest
As much as I think he did more than enough to start as our main striker this season his finishing at times needs to be more clinical.
Probs because he scored 15 goals for us last season.
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