They miss plenty of chances and yet score more goals and regularly exceed their xg, it’s hardly the same thing.
He’s performing worse than Havertz re goals which is fact
And yet you want to bring him in when one his numbers have been pedestrian for the majority of his PL career barring one season and two he is turning 30 this year, so what you’d be signing him to a three plus year contract on substantial wages?
It doesn’t really make sense no matter how you’re attempting to justify it especially outside of a January window if we were neck and neck going for the title.
I want a striker that can score all types of goals as we were discussing yesterday. Both Havertz and Sesko have that in their locker. I’m not sure Gyokeres does from what I have seen from him, albeit and just to be clear, I am not claiming to be an expert on Gyokeres so will stand corrected!
He looked bad in the air, but as you say, this could be down to the way Sporting play, although don’t recall seeing many headers in the Coventry compilation that I posted either.
That analysis from the guys at The Athletic that highlighted that from his last 70 goal or something, only one was a header.
I’ve had a relative debate about it with @Darkseid regarding aerial duels.
What I found the most intriguing personally was they pulled up a graph with his runs and it was predominantly out wide and almost never centrally. I don’t know how that’s even possible for a striker.
I’ve only watched half of it yesterday so good reminder to finish it today.
Absolutely, because Gyokeres is rubbish in the air and isn’t good at scoring headers.
For what it is worth, I agree with @GC-Maniac when it comes to Watkins. Had we signed him in January I think he could have done a good job for us upfront.
They were comping him to Haaland big time which is garbage, he’s plenty more well rounded than that. It’s like they typecast him because of his size and look
Also one of them said he’s score the same goals as Havertz in 38 games, just a really poor segment
Sesko has scored less goals overall, so the number of headers he has scored as a proportion shows he is a more rounded striker than Gyokeres. The fact that Gyokeres has scored so many goals (a large number of pens) and so few of those are headers, highlights that this is a problem.
Gyokeres’s goal scoring record isn’t as impressive though when you take off all the pens he has scored and then make an allowance for the fact he is playing in Portugal.
The point I was making about Sesko is that the proportion of goals he scores from his head is good. He scores other types of goals too. He IS the more rounded player.
