Rvp looked awful for the latter half of last year. All the best strikers in the EPL currently have something. A bit of pace. Why is Suarez or lukaku effective? They are good players but also not slow. Rvp has become captain slow. And with poor form on top he looks terrible.
He looked awful for the last half of the season last year, rubbish. of 40 goals for club and country last year, he scored 17 in the second half of the season. He scored 7 in the last 7 prem league goals last year.
He has scored 7 in the league in 10 starts this year, he's scored 17 goals in 21 starts for club and country this season, horrible form for a player who has clearly completely lost it.........
He had one spell of not scoring a huge amount last year, most strikers have such a spell most seasons. For the vast majority of it the problem was the midfield/wingers being completely crap, if you went back to watch those games, RVP's movement/quality never changed, just the delivery. What is entirely natural for every striker at every club in the world is that when the service goes to crap, the pressure on the very few chances you do get goes way up and you miss the key chances. As soon as the midfield/wingers got slightly back into gear he was banging them in again for Utd, and throughout his "poor" spell at Utd he was thumping them in for Holland with no problem.
On top of that RVP isn't slow, the team plays differently to Liverpool, and Lukaku doesn't often use pace as a means to score, much more strength and he's had a half dozen woeful performances this year. Of late even while everton were winning he was miss controlling every other ball in to him, he just had a bad spell and didn't score for a bunch of games, that's football. He has one of if not the worst pass completion rates in the league, it was something like 38%, he's not quite as good as people make out, but he is effective, and as a striker he really doesn't make many simple passes back to midfield. He attacks, he turns and goes at defenders and looks for the through balls.
So captain slow with poor form now looks terrible. Form tells a completely different picture, 7 goals in 10 games in the league is great form, 17 goals in 21 games for club and country is great form, the ONLY thing he is lacking is number of games played. Being injured isn't an indication of poor form, playing badly and being unable to score is, RVP has done neither of those things. Last season he scored 17 in the half the season you said he sucked, so clearly not true. Rooney, who has 15 goals in 30 starts this year, who only scored 5 vs RVP's 12 in the league from Jan through May last season... is being said to be in great form while the guy easily outscoring him and only lacking games, is said to be terrible? Get a grip.
