How can he be criticized as a one season wonder when the next one after his breakthrough is only just starting?
he had some niggling injury issues throughout August, the Georgia games are the first full 90 minutes he's played. He didn't look fit against Norway to me.
Agreed. It's odd, I mean, are people really criticising him this season already? He's played in
two games. Two. A total of 95 minutes for Napoli. What were people expecting to happen in the equivalent time of
one single game's minutes? And he has an assist already at that.
As for Kvara's drop of productivity in the last couple of months, that's easily accounted for. Napoli won the league with 16 points difference. The team coasted it in the last month. The team was more complacent overall.
Even Osimhen's rate of scoring decreased a little in the run-in of the season.
There's this weird thing about heaping unconditional praise on Osimhen (because he's a striker and as long as you're scoring
what else matters) and showing different standards to criticising Kvara. Last season:
Osimhen played 39 games, scored 31 goals and registered 5 assists. 36 G/A's.
Kvara played 43 games, scored 14 goals and registered 17 assists. 31 G/A's.
Osimhen's scoring almost doubled from the season before just becuase Kvara was so influential last season,
and it's Kvaratskhelia busting his ass off pressing, chasing, dribbling, covering, tracking, defending as well as being a creative and scoring outlet too. A lot of folks go nuts about Osimhen for Napoli's title win, but that doesn't happen without what Kvara did last season.