He will come good once the team starts playing better.
You can see from the amount of shots he gets off he will score consistently.
In the mean time he should just stay in the box and stay out of the build up play, just like Haaland.
I agree that it is not serving him well to drop that deep although, right now, every opinion we have is tainted by the farcical displays they have been putting on since the start of the season so we have no idea what is actually working, what should work but isn't because everybody is fooling around, and what is actually not working because its tactically the wrong choice. The reason I say that is that one thing that comes to mind is that we have created next to nothing from counter pressing which is usually our main creative weapon and most probably a big deciding factor when it comes time to scout and recruit players. Almost none of our chances come from losing the ball, immediately press and win the ball back with the other team now on the back foot and our forwards running into space. Every time we lose the ball we either win it back around our box or when the opposition makes a mistake that leads to a goal-kick, throw-in, etc.
My guess is that the idea is Darwin is big, strong, but also very fast, agile and explosive so he'll drop deep to support the counter press, which is anyway a tactic that requires everybody to be switched on, we win the ball back and he's now running into spaces behind the opposition's backline created by winning the ball back so high up the pitch. He has pretty good passing skills for a CF so he also can set up any of the other forward or player making the run with him. Problem is like I mentioned above, there's no counter press other than from him, Diaz, Elliott, Milner and Robbo. The rest of the team is sat there watching.
Again, that's just my opinion because like I said, I dont know what in the world I have been watching those past 6 or 7 games. I could very well be not understanding something or partially understanding something.
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