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Offline Salsa Party Animal

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Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« on: April 10, 2011, 09:22:19 PM »
I think Darren Bent would benefit if he got the right striking partner for Aston Villa.

Agbonlahor - on today evidence he will not be a goal making striker. He can score goals if he doesn't have to think about it.

Carew - Will he come back to Villa Park and find his form and play with Bent. Unlikely

Heskey - Might be good to hold the ball and take the knocks but he is too injured prone and lack of goals and his age count against him

Nathan - Got the skills and ability but will he develop his experience at Burnley and become a regular.

Sir Wayne Rooney - (According to the media) No chance of him moving to Villa Park

Peter Crouch - Can't see Harry letting him leave or he want to come back to Villa Park

What we need is to find a cross between Peter Beardsley and Alan Shearer. I know that Martin O'Neill's favourite striker ( Barcelona reject playing for AC Milan and Sweden) LOL

I would thought a certain Colombian striker would fit the mould but he is not here and past his prime.

Any suggestion for Bent's partner ?

Offline JJ-AV

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2011, 09:24:43 PM »
Kalinic can't get in the Blackburn side at the minute (but that's more to do with the pressure to play Santa Cruz from the owners). Neat player, can play off the front or as a loan man, good on the ball, good finisher.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2011, 09:25:22 PM »
Does Bent need good service rather than a strike partner?

Although Carew alongside him, when he can be bothered could be interesting.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2011, 09:25:54 PM »
We don't.

Play an attacking midfielder behind him who can link up play. Gary Gardner or Barry Bannan can play the role if they answer their significant potential.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2011, 09:28:54 PM »
Carew won't be coming back remember his contract is up.

I'm surprised Heskey has fallen out of favour ever since Bent signed. Someone who can win headers and hold it up, Bent scored loads at Sunderland with Jones doing that last season.

I can't see him and Gabby ever working, bit like Drogba and Torres at Chelsea. Both like playing and doing their own thing upfront as Gabby's best goalscoring form for us has been playing upfront in a 4-5-1.

I fear Gabby will be the fall guy here unless there's a change of manager.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2011, 09:31:08 PM »
I thought Gabby and Bent looked a decent combo today. Lots of pace and a constant goal threat. What we need is better service from central midfield and the wings. In any case, having spent that much on Bent we're hardly going to fork out more for a suitable strike partner for him.

Sorting our defence needs to be the priority this summer. Bent's goals will become more valuable if we start keeping more clean sheets.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2011, 09:38:06 PM »
Gabby worked hard but didn't have a single effort on goal.  For me, I think we need an attacking midfielder of the Paul Merson/David Platt type to play with, coming from deep to link up with Bent.  Likely to be expensive.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2011, 09:42:29 PM »
Daniel Sturridge will do for me....though next week it will be someone else :-)

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2011, 09:45:41 PM »
Gabby worked hard but didn't have a single effort on goal.  For me, I think we need an attacking midfielder of the Paul Merson/David Platt type to play with, coming from deep to link up with Bent.  Likely to be expensive.

He had two. One he tried to curl into the corner and Harper pushed it out and the second was a left-foot shoot that admittedly was crap and went straight to Harper.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2011, 09:46:24 PM »
Gabby worked hard but didn't have a single effort on goal.
Shot saved by Harper from the edge of the area.

Not a particularly great effort, but a shot - and on target no less.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2011, 09:54:54 PM »
Gabby worked hard but didn't have a single effort on goal.
Shot saved by Harper from the edge of the area.

Not a particularly great effort, but a shot - and on target no less.

He also ran into the area and had a shot that was just palmed away by Harper.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2011, 09:58:48 PM »


Sturridge + Bent would be a class frt 2.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2011, 09:59:38 PM »
Shouldn't we have enough creativity in the team with Young, Downing and Albrighton often playing?

To me it's more a question of build up play.

For example when Barry was here he was always very good at moving the ball quickl;y to he wide players and keeping them involved in the game so very often he'd get it out early to Young who'd be one on one with the defender.

For most of this season it's taken a bleeding age for the ball to get to the wide players from the central two so when they get it there's often two or three defenders surrounding them so the pass very often gets overhit.

It worked better at Everton last week as Downing got the cross in early and Young for once actually didn't overhit a throughball so we got two goals from Bent.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2011, 10:09:03 PM »
We would've created more today if we had two wingers - Young had obviously been told to play on the wing but decided to ignore that after about 5 minutes which meant we lacked width.

Bent scores all his goals from straight through balls he can run on to (so we need a centre mid who can pick a pass - Bannan? Makoun?) or from whipped in crosses (get two wingers playing high up the pitch).  I don't think he necessarily needs a strike partner.

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Re: Finding a striking partner for Darren Bent
« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2011, 10:17:46 PM »
With the way football is going, one up front is generally the standard.

Having spent £18+ million on Bent, it will be him + one other, and I can't see us paying mental money on a second striker. I do think we would benefit from a bit more variation though -or someone as an alternative to Bent when he tires- but it would need to be someone who doesn't automatically expect to start every game. And that's the tough part.

 


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