Shaelumstash
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city91 said:Shaelumstash said:city91 said:Are you seriously comparing Tevez's contribution in our 2012 title winning season to Dzeko's this season?
Tevez came back for a few matches had a couple of good games but never really outperformed Kun or even Mario for that matter.
Edin has been out best striker for half a season and without his goals we may have even finished 4th.
We wouldn't have won the league without Tevez in 2012 and we wouldn't have won the league without Dzeko in 2014. Neither deserved POTS though.
That's a valid point but you could say the same about Lescott this season or even Pantillimon. Those would have been far more comparable to Tevez's contribution from 2012 than Dzeko's this season.
Dzeko is easily in our top 5 players of the season just for the importance of his goals. After Kun he is our best striker.
Well it's down to opinion how big Tevez's impact was, but I remember him giving the whole team a lift when he came back after we'd gone a bit stale. The Chelsea game stands out in particular where we were losing, he came on and changed the game and we won. He was also brilliant in the West Brom and Norwich games where we scored ten goals in two games, which essentially was the difference between winning the league and coming second.