noise said:
It's pretty obvious that he was instrumental in the 2nd part of the season. Just his snide time wasting against Everton may have made the difference.
I think the issue here is we're talking in hypotheticals as if they are facts. It's clear that Edin Dzeko's goals helped us a long way towards winning the title last season, however so did the actions of many different players throughout the season. Negredo's goals, Yaya's goals, Kompany's defending, Kolarov's crossing, in short everyone who played made a contribution so you could, arguably, pick anyone who wore a City shirt last season and claim, "we wouldn't have won the title last season" if it wasn't for them, as who knows what would have happened if they hadn't been on the pitch and someone else had been. The probable here is that, were Dzeko to have been unavailable for the last 6 months of the season then someone would have played in his place, we'd have still had 11 men on the pitch. How on earth are we supposed to know, A - Who that "someone" would have been and B - What contribution they would have made to our title push? It's impossible to assess as it's a purely hypothetical situation with no way of categorically proving anything. The only thing we can be sure of, the only thing that is a fact, is that the contribution Dzeko put in helped us win the league. Would we have won the league without him, but with someone else? Absolutely impossible to know.
