QUOTE (Danny @ Oct 11 2019, 10:25 PM)
This.
And plus Suso himself is hardly known for altruistic play.
Yep. The fact that we're even talking about Piatek when Suso and Hakan are on the pitch is beyond me
QUOTE (X-Offender @ Oct 12 2019, 12:43 AM)
I'm a striker who relies on service. Give me easy balls to drop in the net, I can give you as many goals as you like. Why not just get Matri and Pazzini back then?
Come on, this idea of strikers relying on service is so 20 years ago. Piatek can barely control the ball. That has nothing to do with service.
Perhaps he just had some amazing 4-5 months last season that he'll never repeat again.
Piatek was top notch all of last season - aside from the last few weeks with us when the entire team switched off, and he was scoring freely at Genoa, where I'm sure he was not being supplied to consistently.
He's generally lethal when he gets a chance, that's his talent. if you give him proper service he will score, but when you spend 90 minutes where all you get is sub-par balls in tight areas surrounded by 3 defenders in no-mans land because the midfield does not provide the right support and movement, then he really can't do much
This is not simply about service. We're just a static team ad have been for a while, this makes it difficult for the striker to even accomplish basic things like bringing down the ball and getting the others involved because no one is moving or making the correct runs in support. We just stand still and keep creating the same sideways passing patterns that allow the opposing team to shift back into position and stifle us.
Piatek has been struggling for sure, but the bad actors around him carry as much blame - if not more, than he does
As for Leao, i get the excitement about him, the kid is clearly supremely talented. But I don't agree with instantly making him our starting forward. I don' want to see us putting the kind of pressure on him that carrying this team would entail