Stats don't show the picture of all the games he got chances and couldn't do the basics of helping the rest of the team, which was 10 of our best 11 players play as well as they can and we dropped points - Stats are generally used here by people, well by CCTV in particular to try and make a misleading point about a player
CCTV went to great lengths to do this with Gomez, who is also an average player as time has shown, unsurprisingly, I was always acutely aware of Gomez's lack of ability and considerable limitations through watching him play, CCTV used stats to try and claim Gomez was a world beater and a far superior defender to Matip, who I was obviously acutely aware of being a very very good CB and comfortably our second best after Virgil, for me the second best in the league
I love Origi for his sporadic big goals when other sides have given him acres of space and not viewed him as a threat, he still has to put them away, but he's an average player of limited game intelligence demonstrated in his not being able to grasp what it is he needs to do to ensure the team plays as well as it possibly can first and foremost while bringing his attacking skills to provide a consistent pertinent threat in over 5 years at the club
We need better than Origi
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