BigPoppaPump
Reeling from Laca & Kos nightmares
Laca has never really been our main outlet for goals, it's pretty much always been Auba first (a brief six month run with Sanchez aside) Laca is our secondary goal threat...compare him to other secondary goal threats in our previous teams.
For example in 03/04 Henry got 39 goals and Pires 19 goals, primary and secondary top scorers respectively...in 18/19 Auba got 31 goals and Laca 19, so the numbers kinda match up...obviously they are different player playing different positions, but teams don't always play the same way...Firmino never outscores Salah or Mane despite being the actual centre forward, cause Liverpool are set up that way (not saying Laca is as good as Roberto, don't want to start that again!)
And the team has been poor away from home from around Jan 2017, for a variety of reasons...yes I would like more away goals, but few our our players really perform away from home the last few years...and until we sort out our defence and midfield, Laca will always struggle...as his style of play is doing the grunt work for others, and until we can start dominating away from home again, he will be ploughing away without much reward.
I was happy with Laca for the previous 2 seasons, as I felt his all round play was good...while I have been unhappy this year, as I feel he has been poor in general play, nevermind the goals.
Laca isn't a top striker, but I will defend him on here as I feel he does get a hard time.
Lacazette got POTY for an average Giroud season, shows you how much of a popularity contest this is. Justifying his lack of goals because he's not a scoring outlet is a pathetic excuse, he's a £55 million striker we didn't buy him to twerk on defenders did we?
You need to stop comparing Lacazette to guys like Henry and Firmino because they actually have pace, Lacazette runs like DT off AFTV.