Missing both Stockley and Washington is a huge blow, not just for their goals, but for the effort and work they do all over the pitch. Leko is not a striker, but I hope he is really up for it today. Mason Burstow deserves his chance and I hope he takes it. Unless Norwich have a stinker, I can't see us getting close to winning this.
4' The Addicks threaten with an early attack, but the ball just won't fall kindly in the box and the visitors eventually have a goal-kick.
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I've been saying for months & months about how light we are up front & our dreadful summer transfer policy will come to bite us.
And here it is.
Any team with their two main strikers injured is going to look light up front. As far as I can see we have enough to still play two up front with one on the bench. That’s five striker options in the squad. How many did you want?
Not sure Burstow and Davison should be considered first team strikers. Tbf to Golfie it’s a fact that we started the season light up top, we didn’t replace the strikers we lost.
Burstow fair enough but as a fifth choice coming from the academy, you won’t get much better than him. Davison was definitely in our plan of four forward options - whether he is proving himself to be good enough this season is up for debate but it would have been unfair to write him off in the summer. Is Leko a striker? Probably a stretch but we know he’s played there a lot in both his stints with us.
And all this comes with the heavy disclaimer that Nigel planned to only play one up top for most of the season. So having three options with Leko/ Burstow/ Blackett-Taylor able to fill in where needed isn’t the terrible squad building that some would have you believe.
Would you play any of them a the one up front though? I wouldn't play Washington there either.
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That sort of talk gets you cancelled.