Nope don’t by into that anymore... The guy is shot to pieces... He hides in games... Alan Shearer has raised it a few times on MOTD and it’s true... He hides behind defenders and just goes through the motions... He’s finished.

Don't waste your time with jealousy. Sometimes your ahead, sometimes your behind, the race is long. But in the end it's only with yourself!!

Strikers are all about confidence - at least he is now scoring now which should give him a boost. His second goal was well taken though the first was one of those scramble efforts that some how end up in the back of the net.

Benteke put his house up for sale in August.

Wants £3.1m.

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This is the nub of the matter.
We slag off Sorloth, Benteke, sometimes Ayew but if they don't get the ball to run onto (or head) they won't score.

Our current 'hold the fort' midfield guarantees a shortage of goals (and doesn't guarantee it is fit for RH's purpose) Even worse, every team knows how we play.

Unless we are more adventurous and use our skilful players in Meyer & McCarthy nothing will change (except our negative goal difference)

Obviously playing to his strengths would help, but let’s have it right, in the last 2 years , if he goes through one on one he hits it at the keeper and we have all seen him put loads of simple headers over the bar from the edge of the 6 yard box. A fit Andy Carroll at Burnley or a younger Peter Crouch I can understand, but would he start at Burnley in front of there front 2?
They bullied West Ham’s defence the other day, last time I saw Benteke really out muscle a defender, it was Scott Dann and Benteke had a Villa kit on .

Yeah, but you can't really always look at it like that. Otherwise that means that Hazard must be really bad, as he didn't score at all. Or Benteke is as good as De Bryne, as he also only scored two. Both of which we know aren't true.

We're not playing the sort of football that gets the best out of a striker like Benteke. That's the bottom line for me. It's not hard to see.