Richarlison

[Bedfordspurs]

MuanI has directly contributed tona number of Richy's goals so the stats only show a portion of the story.

Give richy time on the ball and he is toilet
Ask him to hit it first time and he is better than most
It’s the only the way to use him
But he does need others around him for that to work

 

[thfcsteff]

MuanI has directly contributed tona number of Richy's goals so the stats only show a portion of the story.

Right. As is the way with stats. Always.
Why can't you give the guy some credit? No-one is saying he is Kane, or even our long-term answer. But for right now, he is doing what he is paid to do with a degree of consistency; play football matches and score goals.

Muani is a fine player, and personally, I think he improves Richy, Xavi, Kudus and Odobert's games just by being there. He is a high quality player.

My comparison of how Richy is perceived with how Falco was perceived back in the day is pretty accurate BTW. In Richy's last 24 Premier League starts, he has scored 17 goals. Stats can work both ways ;-)

 

[braineclipse]

Such a strange player. With his back to goal, the ball bounces off him like his feet are made of sandstone - he can play maybe 1 good pass out of every five.

But he's also a truly gifted poacher, in the sense that he'll be in the right place at the right time and can usually put the ball on target in those situations (though not with any great degree of finesse - not that he needs it given the excellent positions he gets into!).

I think his misfortune is that he's a centre-forward in the era of lone centre-forwards that are expected to do everything. When what he really is, is a poacher - a physical and hard-working one, but still, largely just a souped-up version of, say, Darren Bent from back when.

And that's not a slight on him at all - Bent was a goalscorer, and so is Richy. But given his size, he's typecast as a barnstorming all-aspect centre forward when he really isn't!

Agreed. If we use him correctly, manage to create chances for him to finish, let him create chaos around him - and have runners/players around him to benefit he's a good player even with his technical shortcomings.

Ask him to hold the ball up and drag us up the pitch against big PL centre backs, ask him to be the creative link man in the pockets and he'll mostly fail.