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2017/18 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

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maccavennie said:
Oh don't get me wrong mate, it's ridiculous that I'm pinning my striker hopes on a kid who has scored 1 goal in 17 matches. I just think he's the best option.

Regarding Sandro, he looks painfully short of offering anything of note at the minute and I'm just hopeful that's confidence. The bit where he ran into Cuco when all he had to do was go wide. It was embarrassing
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I see a player in Sandro too. Unbelievably. But not in this team currently. You just know we'll sell him and he'll slot for fun elsewhere. That's just Everton for us.
 


Billy Dean said:
Exactly. Don't understand how any CF can be in the firing line when the rest of the team can't get the ball in the box. When we started actually attacking last night in the 2nd half he looked decent.
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Because it's a failure to understand that a centre forward's job isn't only about being on the end of crosses (and in DCL's case, missing when he does).

The defenders don't fear him, so play a higher line. They aren't knocked out of their stride by him , so they don't have to worry or hurry a pass or make a mistake. He doesn't have high quality movement himself, so a centre back and full back don't have to work overtime to keep track on him.

Again , it's not his fault he is playing but he is nowhere near good enough. He's Beckford without the goals
 
orly said:
Because it's a failure to understand that a centre forward's job isn't only about being on the end of crosses (and in DCL's case, missing when he does).

The defenders don't fear him, so play a higher line. They aren't knocked out of their stride by him , so they don't have to worry or hurry a pass or make a mistake. He doesn't have high quality movement himself, so a centre back and full back don't have to work overtime to keep track on him.

Again , it's not his fault he is playing but he is nowhere near good enough. He's Beckford without the goals
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I'd qualify that as *yet. Not good enough yet.
In my eyes it's harsh to expect him with next to no experience in top flight football to come in and lead the line and the team. Lots of pressure on him as the only proper forward on the team, something that illustrates the complete failure of our recruitment team. IMO what we've seen from him has been promising in glimpses with all around play, but he still lacks that lethal nose for goal.
He was a midfielder till 17? so needs to practice and refine that part of his game as he gets in good positions but lacks the goals.
He should never have been first choice, second or third maybe...
Walsh and Koeman had a shocker selling Rom and not replacing him. Unreal.
 
I badly want the lad to do well, i would gve him a run of games in his proper position and hopefully he will start scoring a few goals.
Unfortnatly i cant see more than 5 goals from in a league season to be honest.
Oh and if one more commentator or pundit mentions "he played really well against city at the begining of the season" i will scream
 

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