waspish said:
Thought defensively he was good cleared some dangerous balls out of our box
Oh please! We don't pay a striker simply to defend. No, I've defended him plenty on this forum, but I've come very reluctantly to the conclusion that he's got very little to offer. Yesterday, he literally might as well not have been on the pitch. He was given virtually the full match by Pellegrini to strut his stuff and he was invisible. So no excuses about only being brought on as a sub. Now Beast has been off form for the last three or four games — there's no denying it — but at least you could see he was up for it in the cameo role he was given, chasing on to the Sunderland keeper to harry him. No really, I suppose that Edin will see out the season, and then probably be off to sunnier climes in the summer. I'm sad about it, because I thought he was sometimes phenomenally destructive in the title winning season, but he's shown little of that, and the no-show games are just far too frequent.