Jean Phillipe mateta as a result of the goal on saturday has moved to joint 869th best striker in Premier league history. If he scores another goal he will likely move to c. 794th best striker in premier league history

Eden Kane and Norma Shearer, maybe.

Ollie Watkins missed a sitter before scoring as well and took along time to find consistent form in the premiership after moving up from the Championship.It’s hard to get consistent when you only start occasionally or come on with only ten minutes to go.The same goes for Edouard as well,I think we need to play one of them regularly and let him know he is the main man.

I'd agree that Mateta is more likely to score if we get balls into the box more, but for that to happen we need to go forward more.

To go forward more we need our striker to lead the line well, run in behind defences when they push up, hold the ball up and link play quickly when defences drop off, press defenders when we lose the ball, etc and so on.

Mateta is poor at all of the above. He's a big lad and can't help being slow, but he doesn't lay a glove on anyone, and when the ball does occasionally stick, the best we can hope for is that he'll succeed in the most simple of lay offs, executed slowly.

When he plays, Mateta is a big part of the reason we don't get the ball in the box as much as he needs.

Even though he almost never deploys them effectively, Edouard has better mobility, touch, awareness and skill than Mateta. I'd guess the temptation is to pick Edouard in the hope you get some of the things you need from your forward outside the box, rather than pick Mateta in the certainty that you won't.

Ian Wright would have strangled both of them long ago.

always thought that at the end of last season, when he was given a run of games he started to play well, and was really surprised when PV gave Edouard the majority of chances when this Season started.

Neither Strikers were helped with this seasons slow, patient build up tactics employed by PV. Continue with the faster paced attack, shoot on sight and early crossing we saw last weekend, and we'll likely see an improvement in whichever striker RH chooses. - and I'd be happy with Both on at the same time too!

incidentally, anyone notice Olise using his right boot a lot more at the weekend? A tactic to get better/more variety and crosses in to the box perhaps?

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

Alas, both Edouard and Mateta seem to have rather small fuel tanks.