Ollie Watkins

[Beard82]

I said in another thread - looked a bit like Kane at the euros - it is so important to us - and sure he’ll come good - but hasn’t looked at right the last two games - and not in a needs a goal way

[PeterWithesShin]

https://www.skysports.com/football/video/30998/13202822/world-class-save-from-david-raya-rayas-incredbile-save-from-best-angles

[Risso]

Literally straight at him. He did well to get off the floor, but a slight glance to the keeper's left and he gets nowhere near it.

[Demitri_C]

Stunk out the place today.  Awful performance

[Flamingo Lane]

At the game I thought that if Watkins had put away that chance in the first half, as he clearly should have done, there would have been a var check on the Arsenal player being dispossessed. I haven't seen the incident back yet. What's the thinking from someone who has?

[Ads]

Didn't look a foul.

His touch is very heavy and he seems really off the pace. I'm not sure if he had an injury after he came back from England, but he looks sluggish.

Always seems to start slowly though, so not too concerned.

[VillaTim]

The misses aside , I thought his ball distribution was shocking today. This is what spending a summer with Mouthgate looks like .

[Villafirst]

At the Euros he basically sat around for 4 weeks under the expertise of Safegate. He barely got many minutes - obviously he scored that vital goal, but it meant he had no real pre-season and didn"t have much time with new signings etc., However, the two missed sitters, especially the first were shocking. He did look off the pace most of his 65 or so minutes on the pitch.

[Demitri_C]

The one positive he cant be any worse than he was yesterday.  He was so bad. Id you take away the bad misses his distribution was bad, he kept losing the ball and was just totally hopeless.

Needs to improve quickly otherwise gove duran a start until ollie builds his fitness up because that was bad yesterday ans it cost us dearly.

[PhilVill]

Completely agree. He was absolutely shite yesterday and needs to get upto speed quickly. This is a different side now to the one he came into back in the day, and although he can be excellent in patches, we just cannot carry him when he has his shit phases anymore.

[Demitri_C]

Completely agree. He was absolutely shite yesterday and needs to get upto speed quickly. This is a different side now to the one he came into back in the day, and although he can be excellent in patches, we just cannot carry him when he has his shit phases anymore.

Thats the thing phil for me. Arsenal when havertz isnt doing well arteta can put jesus there. Or as we saw yesterday martenelli is shit they have trossard and can rotate. Ollie needs competition real competition so when plays shite like the last two games we have someone to come in. Competition is healthy and all the successful teams have it. As you say we cant carry players now when play as bad as ollie did yesterday.  I would argue ollie was worse yesterday than he was against west ham

[ChicagoLion]

Completely agree. He was absolutely shite yesterday and needs to get upto speed quickly. This is a different side now to the one he came into back in the day, and although he can be excellent in patches, we just cannot carry him when he has his shit phases anymore.

If he isn’t fit (and he doesn’t look it) then we need to play someone else there.
Rogers or Panda.

[tony scott]

The argument is that we’re trying to play him back to match fitness, that only works if we are winning

[john e]

The argument is that we’re trying to play him back to match fitness, that only works if we are winning

But he only gets back to match fitness by playing him

Having said that the first miss was nothing to do with fitness it was just a rubbish shot
I could’ve put it in with my knob and it isn’t even that big

[chrisw1]

Everyone is talking about Raya’s save this morning.  Ollie got a lot of power on that header and 9 times out of 10 it’s a goal.  In hindsight he should have placed it, but he went for power and in my view was pretty unlucky.

On form Watkins is vital to us and I don’t think it will be long before we’re all singing his praises again.