There is no such thing as a getting away from it: this season has been a catastrophe for Tottenham Hotspur.
Ange Postecoglou’s aspect’s kind within the Premier League has been diabolical; they’re now out of the League Cup and have needed to cope with an ever-growing harm checklist.
Furthermore, the membership’s two high scorers, Dominic Solanke and Brennan Johnson, are actually on mentioned checklist, and their absence has left the staff wanting extremely blunt in assault.
Worse nonetheless, a participant bought by the membership in the summertime, who might nicely have been the proper answer in the mean time, is outscoring the pair of them.
Johnson and Solanke’s season thus far
It might be honest to say that Johnson has endured a combined time in N17 up to now, as whereas he definitely wasn’t dangerous in his first season with the membership, his return of five goals and ten assists in 34 appearances final season maybe was barely under what followers had been hoping for, particularly as he cost a whopping £47.5m.
Then, the beginning of this season could not have gone any worse for him, as a number of lacklustre performances, which culminated in an extremely ineffective show at house to Arsenal, noticed a portion of the net fanbase activate him, a lot in order that he felt it essential to deactivate his Instagram account.
Nevertheless, after he got here off the bench to attain the winner towards Coventry Metropolis within the Third Spherical of the League Cup, the Welsh worldwide began to attain for enjoyable.
As issues stand, he is racked up a superb haul of 12 goals and three assists in 32 video games, and as soon as he is again from his calf harm, we would not be stunned to see him add to that.
For his half, Solanke has loved a comparatively profitable first marketing campaign within the capital following his club-record £65m move from Bournemouth in the summertime.
Whereas it took him extra video games than he’d preferred to rise up and working, the Englishman has undoubtedly established himself as one of the necessary gamers within the squad, each for his output and talent to convey his teammates into play.
Previous to his knee harm, the Basingstoke-born marksman had racked up a formidable tally of 11 goals and six assists in simply 29 appearances, and like his Welsh teammate, that haul will solely enhance as soon as he is again within the aspect.
Nevertheless, as efficient as each attackers have been this season, they’ve been outscored by somebody the membership bought in the summertime.
The previous Spurs participant outscoring Solanke and Johnson
Spurs made various signings final summer time, however additionally they made their fair proportion of gross sales.
The likes of Oliver Skipp, Emerson Royal, Joe Rodon and extra all left N17 to ply their commerce elsewhere in England and Europe, however the striker outscoring Solanke and Johnson moved from the U21 aspect: Troy Parrot.
The Irish worldwide spent final season on mortgage with Dutch aspect Excelsior, the place he did extremely nicely, scoring 17 goals and providing five assists in 32 video games, which was sufficient to catch the attention of AZ Alkmaar, who determined to spend around £6.7m to safe his companies in July.
Since transferring to De Kaasboeren, the “huge expertise,” as was described by talent scout Jacek Kulig, has maintained his spectacular kind and has already scored 15 goals and provided three assists in simply 32 appearances this season.
In different phrases, he has scored 4 extra targets than Solanke in simply three video games extra and three greater than Johnson in as many video games, which is not dangerous going from the previous academy gem.
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Parrot vs Solanke vs Johnson |
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Gamers |
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Appearances |
32 |
29 |
32 |
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Objectives |
15 |
11 |
12 |
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Assists |
3 |
6 |
3 |
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Aim Involvements per Match |
0.56 |
0.58 |
0.46 |
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All Stats by way of Transfermarkt |
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Finally, the Eredivisie is a neater league, however with two of his star attackers out injured, we reckon Postecoglou would like to have a proficient ahead like Parrot in his squad proper now.
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