Good point. Diagne's determination and outmuscling of Lindelof for that header was what we have not seen in our frontline for an age. Logically if Roy thought Tekkers was the solution to our attacking limitations at the beginning of the season then a loan like Diagne would of made more sense ? Bring him in if Tekkers was struggling. Bats seems to only thrive on good service which we don't have in this current team. As a result of the above both look equally ineffective in front of goal for different reasons. Unfortunately it looks we will have to grin and bear this until the end of the season at the very least but please not both together.

Edited by Booted Eagle (16 Feb 2021 1.02pm)

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

So being the case why is it that Chelsea didn't want him and why did Klopp waste no time in kicking Benteke out lol and the one thing about Benteke is the fact that he does not work hard enough and whenever he's needed to be in the correct position up front he's hiding behind a defender as Shearer nicely pointed out about a year ago, I'd play Benteke in midfield only and to only hold up play nothing else when we need to see out a game.
Attacking tactics begin when our keeper rolls the ball out ...then that's it, that's as far as it often gets. Eze can run and make himself space as he goes but he only has Ayew to aim for with any ability to keep the move going when Zaha is out.
Opponents have an easy task playing us because we only have five players to worry them.

Edited by Tickled pink (16 Feb 2021 1.16pm)

You can blame both ways, but the ability one makes more sense to me personally.

But how when that is not the common trend? Benteke, Batshuayi, Sorloth, Bamford all have proven at other clubs that they can score and play too. But they've come to palace (under hodgson) and that changed.

There has to be something in the decision making of management that is limiting the ability of these players when on the pitch for us.

Benteke and Batshuayi have in the past yes not in the recent, Sorloth hasn't proved anything at all, the only one that has is Bamford who at the time was not quite the finished article (hindsight also helps but of course we should've pursued) but he had to find his feet in the Championship because we didn't have the time to wait and saying that now does seem very stupid considering the amount of time we've wasted with four who came along after him

Wasn't he a loan too?

Edited by Tickled pink (16 Feb 2021 4.06pm)

We have a winner!