Did everything you could expect of him. Got a glorious bend on the curler that hit the post - I was dead behind it, and it just held its line at the last minute rather than continuing to curl. That's just luck. Second first half chance was going like a rocket and got a defection/flick on, and it virtually hit him - all he could do was to try and let it hit him as softly as possible so that he redirected the ball without any power so it dropped in. In the circumstances, he did brilliantly and he was desperately unlucky it dropped over the bar rather than in. There's not a player I can think of would have done better. But he should have buried the first of his chances, and he knew it.Bordeauxclaret wrote:Well he clearly didn’t do everything right with the two half chances did he.
All 3 of our strikers offer something a bit different, but if you are looking for someone to acxt as the focal point of an attack and get the best out of pacey runners coming from deeper - say Vydra and Lennon now, and Ings in an earlier era - then Vokes is your man. He's got the knack of creating space by cleverly coming off his centre back, and he's got the feet to take the ball in and keep it moving. He's not a channel runner like Wood, and he's not as good at fending for himself whilst isolated as Barnes, but he's a better all round footballer than either. He might not start on Sunday because we're a bit short in midfield so might go 4-4-2, and Barnes and Wood gel better as a partnership than Vokes does with either of them (if Vydra was fit, it might be a different matter).
I think he's still got a Premier League goalscoring record since we were last promoted that is better than a goal every 270 minutes. That's not the record of someone out of his depth at this level.