He needs the ball played through for him to run onto. He's slightly built and there is no point expecting him to win the physical battles. He is more of a Michael Owen type of striker.
I rate reza and Iv seen enough of him to say he's a good player and can do a good job for us if played .
I can honestly say that I hope you're right, that he scores a hatful of goals and becomes a club legend. However, I find your evaluation incredible based on what I've seen so far. He looks utterly clueless to me. Lightweight and toothless. The only thing he's good at is conning refs into giving him free kicks.
technically good enough, but needs to harden up, goes down everytime he gets nudged. can see him getting one and then the goals will just fly in for him.
He is a good player from what I have seen but needs to playing on the shoulder of the last man. Good control, good shot and turns a man. Left a bloke for dead yesterday, if that had been the last man he would have been in. Wasted in midfield. Obika and Reza are better than church and sordel. Peter Parsley should be on the bench, if only for the fact that he knows how to score a goal.
Stick with obika and reza for a few games and for god sake drop church (I don't care how hard he works we need goals and his shooting is soft its embarrassing). Obika is useful in the air and reza is quick and likes a shot. At least reza hits the ball with some venom.
At the moment we are going from single striker who can't shoot to 2 strikers who don't have enough time to get used to each other with no service. Surely giving 2 strikers a run together to see if they work is better than us all complaining how poor church is week in week out.
Sorry my responce sounded sarcastic. I understand your suggestion of trying something else but, IMO the other strikers won't bring much to the table either without a stronger striker to lead the line. We don't currently have that type of player.
He played up top at Wigan and people there came back with encouraging reports. He played up top against QPR and did ok - certainly offered more than Church.
His recent performances haven't been great but he has been played in midfield. If we are going to use him stick him up front FFS. He is a poacher not a winger or link player.
Sorry my responce sounded sarcastic. I understand your suggestion of trying something else but, IMO the other strikers won't bring much to the table either without a stronger striker to lead the line. We don't currently have that type of player.
Fair point and valid. I would prefer 2 up top though to learn to gel (not church) then at least they might learn to feed off each other especially as it seems unlikely we will bring another striker in who would fill the role you very correctly point out we are missing.
No matter what we try and what we say we have shot ourselves in the foot this season by selling Kermorgant, injury prone or not he will not have received the same knock here as he did at Bournemouth, I said it when Obika signed, the only reason he knocked so many goals in was Kermorgant doing the dirty work getting him one on one. This strikers are struggling so much to get such opportunities that when they do they are either absolutely shot confidence wise or they make a wrong decision.
Midfield is too defensive, it's all well and good keeping clean sheets and us being happy with them, but with a back 5 inc. Hamer, 2 CDM's essentially and Jackson who is box to box and absolutely shattered at his age, poor soul, we are down to 3 players dedicated to the scoring part, playing Church is just like having 2 and someone shadow chasing. Playing Green is like playing 1.
Think we've really took a step back if I'm honest with all the changes, honeymoon period is over. and we can't score a single goal.
We keep going around in circles, this striker is crap, that striker is crap. It's not the individual strikers that are the problem, it's the collective forward line that isn't functioning and hasn't for most of the season. We always look more likely to score a goal when Harriot is playing. Why? because he has pace, trickery and he shoots. If we were to play Reza up front with Sordell or Obika, with Harriot on one side and Wilson on the other, the goals would come. But we keep messing around with ridiculous formations that never have a hope of working, then crucify a striker for missing the one chance that we create in a game. Reza would be good in a normal forward line, you know, one that occasionally scores 2 or three goals in a game. Even Church would be OK in a forward line where others chip in with goals. We need to find a formation that works and stick with it, so that they can develop an understanding. Reza is a poacher so he needs to play alongside a forward who is strong in the air. To make that work, they need to be fed balls from midfield and the wings, with the wide men getting in behind the full back occasionally. It's time to wake up to the fact that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we are playing in the final third, and put it right.
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Service to forwards today was utter shite
As it is, I hope Reza breaks his duck and kicks on from there. We need someone (anyone!) at this point
Left a bloke for dead yesterday, if that had been the last man he would have been in.
Wasted in midfield. Obika and Reza are better than church and sordel. Peter Parsley should be on the bench, if only for the fact that he knows how to score a goal.
His recent performances haven't been great but he has been played in midfield. If we are going to use him stick him up front FFS. He is a poacher not a winger or link player.
Midfield is too defensive, it's all well and good keeping clean sheets and us being happy with them, but with a back 5 inc. Hamer, 2 CDM's essentially and Jackson who is box to box and absolutely shattered at his age, poor soul, we are down to 3 players dedicated to the scoring part, playing Church is just like having 2 and someone shadow chasing. Playing Green is like playing 1.
Think we've really took a step back if I'm honest with all the changes, honeymoon period is over. and we can't score a single goal.