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An interesting match, with Benteke seeming to get a booking from nowhere. At last, he seems to be building his game and is contributing to keeping opposing teams quiet. at the moment not being regarded as a threat be opponents. This allows our other players to attack. He needs to score plenty to get into the Belgium squad.

To Bob Marley's "One Love"...

Two goals...
Two goals...
Let's get another, and feel alright...

Seriously though, he'll never score another goal.

2017 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Middlesboro
2018 Jan. (Sako) Palace 1 - 0 Burnley
2019 May (Batshuayi, Batshuayi, OG, Van Aanholt, Townsend) Palace 5 - 3 Bournemouth
2020 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Newcastle

There is stat that says he has missed 21 from 22 big chances he has had this season.
Don't ask me who decides what a big chance is but it sounds about right.
Just a few of those converted would see us many points higher.
As others have said he may well cost us dear - just hope it is not our prem league status!

What options did Roy really have yesterday? Look at the bench !
Personally I would’ve put Fossu-Mensa up front just for nuisance value but you’d never see an experienced manager like Roy do that.

Yes when Benteke was injured he played Wilf and Andros up front but it’s obvious that Wilf is not fully fit right now and is being nursed through games so that formation just won’t work.
Roy had no option but to play Benteke and back him - apart from not crucifying him he has a responsibility to the owners to try and maintain Benteks ridiculous valuation as a club asset.
Wait till Sørloth is fully fit and you’ll see Roy finally drop him thank God !

He fully deserved the booking a few seconds before it he was jumping into aggressively Van Dyke the ref gave him a warning then he goes and clips the players heels.

To get into the Belgium squad he only needs to show some passion and work rate neither is being shown at the minute plus he has had plenty of chances to create/score goals and he keeps messing up.

How would Wilf up top not work it is less work then what he played on the wing having to go back defend then go on attack.

I would of stuck Mensa in there to cover wings

Benteke would of been better off coming on second half

Why would he drop Benteke he didn't before.

It's a joke the new guy Everton purchased Tosun who was linked with us even last season has only played few games yet he was cheaper then Benteke and already has double the goals he has

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I agree with a lot of the sentiments expressed on here about Benteke’s poor form.
The problem is that Townsend works hard without providing a threat, Sorloth is still unproven, Sako is injured and Will doesn’t look fully fit..
This means that there will be a huge reliance on Benteke in the remaining games whether we like it or not.
We rarely look like keeping a clean sheet which means we need to get 2 goals each game to get three points.
Where are these goals going to come from at the moment?
I think this is why Hodgson is being supportive of Benteke,but I’ll be amazed if he’s with us next season.