I love Firmino for all the pressure/ defensive work he does and the ground he covers every game, but I sometimes wonder if this guy is a 15 or even 12-ish goals a season striker.
He has great technique, but from the little experience I have watching football he seems to lack that natural, kind of instinctive finisher precision, and I if I have to be honest I find it pretty decently infuriating. Not that it means anything, it just annoys the F**k out of me.
Now, I'm not laying any kind of blame on him, but almighty baby Jesus if this guy had even slightly better finishing skills he'd be an absolute monster.
I thought he was having a kind of bad patch as most strikers tend to get, but now I'm not so sure. What do you guys think? Do we even need a striker with those characteristics, or would our system crash and burn if the player is bad at pressing, so we somehow need to compromise goalscoring skill alone in favor or harder working strikers?
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