Brilliant

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

I still maintain that he was handled badly after Vieira played him consistently after xmas of his first year in charge. He started to look good, then was dropped inexplicably for Edouard the following season.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

For gods sake let me eat my humble pie, stop making excuses for me!

All credit to Mateta for taking his chance so well.
Credit to Glasner too for getting the players further up the field to create chances.
We have scored first in nearly all of Glansner's games.
Even Sorloth or Jermaine Easter would score in the Glasner set up (the excitement must be getting to me!)

He'd start if Mateta were (god forbid) to get injured. And he'd score. His all round play, were he to try to play down the middle or as a target man, would be far inferior to JPM's though.

But my fundamental belief about prem strikers is that so many fail because they mostly need two things. Time to adapt and a run in the team. And time is the one luxury no PL team can afford.

And it is a catch 22 that few clubs can offer that.

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

Roy never gave Mateta a proper run in the side.. and the system he played didn’t help him either.. now he is getting the support we are seeing the results..more goals to come for sure ...