Jesus Christ after Martial and Cavani I now find myself defending our third main striker in two years
The consensus seems to be that he should do more, but do more of
what exactly? We've regularly lined up with Fred, McTominay and Bruno in midfield who've been struggling to string 3 or 4 10 yard passes between themselves since the stsrt of 2021.
Against Atleti we displayed some of the worst ball progression you'll find amongst the 'top' European teams. With Fred at #6, Lindelof out of position at RB, and Bruno/Pogba both , we had quite simply no-one progressing the ball up the field through dribbling or passing. Consequently, our second touch in the Atleti box didn't come until past the hour mark.
My question for those that have him high up on our problems list would be: what threat are you expecting him to pose while we routinely struggle to get the ball out of our own half? I have to stress that he's not infallable and he's of course had bad games, I can't imagine a player that
wouldn't have a number of bad games infront of a team playing hot potato with the ball. But swap him out for any player in the world right now and I'm confident you'd have the same end result.