Don't think you can use the game to congratulate yourself The plan was to keep things tight for the first 65 minutes and avoid losing rather than going for their jugular. No striker would have thrived on the service offered - Lallana and Ibe were far too slow to release the ball on either flank - and they would have been whoever was playing up top.
Benteke also looked to be developing an understanding with Coutinho and narrowly missed getting onto a great ball from Henderson.
Before you start patting yourself on the back with "I told you soes" it would be interesting to know how many goals and assists Benteke will get for us this season?
I predict 15 goals and 5 assists which will be a good return for his first season.
I'm not congratulating myself nor am I saying I told you so either. I'm just not surprised at his performance on Sunday. I'm not surprised at our other attacking players struggling either because they need a quicker forward who moves more. I hope on Monday we give him something to attack. Get balls into him. Play it long if we have too.
I don't know why you all think I hate Benteke because I don't. I actually like him. But I just don't think we will see the best of him because of the way we play.
I disagree. If he does get 15 goals and 5 assists then that wouldn't be a good return for a 32.5m striker. He needs to hit 20 goals minimum. He is familiar with this league. No excuses.
I personally think he will hit around 12 goals and 2-3 assists though. Those assists won't be proper assists either. They won't be through balls for example. They will be a 5 yard pass out wide to Coutinho or somebody like that, who will then dribble past 2-3 players and hit a rocket. But because it was Benteke who gave him the ball, even if its somewhere near the half way line, it will still go down as an assist
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