Yeh, okay, lets just agree to disagree.
You are just like a broken record :
- repeating his goals without any context (very good example of pointing out that Kane also got 0 goals - if you did not see how he was able to control and pass the ball + force the save that resulted in our 2:1 goal - it literally proves that you only look at very high level stats and make your conclusion on those)
Kane has played 210 minutes against Championship teams this season and has 1 goal..
It's not the be all and end all.
Players have poor games. Especially players who don't play week in and week out.
- try to divert the discussion about Vinicius with bringing in Bale, Toby and Kane instead of explaining why he was not able to prove anything against Championship bottom team.
No idea. Because players ARE allowed to have an off game when they get a rare start?
I could tell you that if he was on the pitch when Hojbjerg, Ndombele and Son were all on - he may have actually got on the end of a decent pass and through on goal. Who knows?
- expect that games would just be gifted from good heart and it has nothing to do with the fact that he has started 6 games and against even half decent opponents in 3 occasions he has been taken off early - respectively in 45th minute 58th and 59 th minute - literally only occasions where he has been deemed good enough have been against 8th league side + game against team that ended in bottom of EL group + against LASK. So there is much more to it than last game.
I'm not expecting fuck all.
It's become clear since Kane became the main man that whoever our back up striker is will never get a true chance. And all of us have come to terms with that and it's probably one of many reasons why no one of true true class in that position will sign for us.
- ignore the specific situations where he failed and jus try to wipe it under the carpet talking about one game, when his track record proves that he has not been deemed good enough to finish half of started games against lesser opponent. Sure, this was "one bad game". Then Antwerp was 2nd bad game. And there was 3rd bad game - so if against inferior side you suck balls 50% of the time - that says something about your quality.
He got 45 minutes against Antwerp and scored 0 goals. And like many times in the past, our managers get scared and bring on Kane.
Who got the second 45 minutes and how did they do?
What was this 3rd bad game?
- He got 2 assists on his first start.
- Subbed off on his second start
- Scored 2 and got an assist in his third start.
- Scored in his fourth start.
- Got a hattrick on his fifth start.
- Subbed off in his sixth start.
I'm not the one seeing an issue.
You are.
To be clear - my expectations for back-up striker would be that we could in fact afford to give Kane full games off. Which has not been the case as I just pointed out - he has been called upon to see game out in 3 of the 6 games in EL + FA cup game against Wycombe; on top of that he has started 2 games against Championship sides in EFL cup.
We've given Kane FOUR full games off.
That isn't a back up striker issue. Vinicius has a hand in 8 goals within 3 of those games (In the 4th, Vinicius was out injured)
That's a Mourinho issue. He wants to give Kane minutes and if things aren't going well with the team performance, he will bring Kane on for a sub striker instead of just playing them together (or actually trusting his back up striker) - imagine if we lost a game with Kane on the bench and didn't bring him on!? He'd be crucified.
There was ZERO need for Vinicius to come off at 2-0 up against Antwerp, there was ZERO need for Vinicius to come off on the 86th minute against LASK or even in the 45th minute in the first game against Antwerp.
And there's absolutely no reason as to why Vinicius hasn't made 9 man benches or been brought on when the team need a goal.
He hasn't started 2 games against Championship teams by the way.
He started against Wycombe, that's it. He didn't play against Stoke and played 1 minute against Brentford.