Think the criticism of him was warranted, he was well off par all of last season and no player is immune to criticism when they aren’t performing, especially for that length of time.
But form is temporary and he’s looking back to his best again this season, or at least well on his way to his best again. Every player will have a season where they aren’t really at it, last season was his and luckily for us he seems to have put that behind him.
Probably just seemed worse than it was because of everything that seemed to happen to us last season.
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