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« on: September 30, 2014, 08:59:13 AM »
Go back to Odemwingie's debut vs Sunderland at home under RDM.
Goal came in the 80th minute with a ball played in behind the defence for Pete to latch onto and he scored with lead to us winning the game 1-0.
The rest of that season, when Pete scored 15 goals, he was the loan striker. Pete wash't the type of striker you could lump it forward to, he ran channels, wanted the ball played in behind so he could use his pace, and was a poacher.
Then Shane Long was signed, Pete was shoved on the wing, and we started to lump it forward to Long. Not nearly as effective. This carried on under Hodgson and Clarke, when it wasn't Long it was Anichebe.
Pete got disillusioned and we all know how that ended.
This season has seen us return to a loan striker who you can't lump it forward too. You gotta be cleverer than that. Berahino will run a channel, will latch onto a ball behind, or poach a goal. Similar to Pete did. And its working for us, like it did when we had Pete.
The common factor is the midfielders, Morrison, Dorrans and Brunt where playing in Pete, they are doing the same for Saido, this is obviously what they are good at and this is how we need to play to be successful.