Dominic Calvert-Lewin

No concert for me, but I did have Tavernier and Maramovic to sort of claw some back.

I had Calvert-Lewin on the bench.

I actually took...

I didn't take a hit.

I just did a transfer.

I had Cherky as first sub, but...

And I had Calvert-Lewin in the team.

But then with Calvert-Lewin being an injury doubt, even though his wife said that she'd just seen him clear the Garvin fence and he was completely fine, it was a slight risk.

I really like Sharder and Brentford, and you could argue it's Sharder over Stack or it's Sharder over Gross.

The only reason I've gone Stack, and some might be really surprised by this, is there's no dominant Calvert-Lewin, and I feel like I'd want to cover the lead to Tack, which isn't great, but I just trust them to tick along, and I trust the talismanic effect of that team.

So whilst the attack's not great, I feel like it's always coming from Calvert-Lewin or Stack.

Now, Stack was benched at the weekend, but...

I don't know if there was a slight injury.

I don't love the wildcard this week, but I know some are hitting the button.

And one of the negatives to it is you're probably going in with a little bit of a coin toss on too many decisions.

Nicholas Jackson versus Calvert-Lewin versus João Pedro would be another one of those.

So until I get the updates, I've just got to wait.

I haven't done Gonzalo Garcia to Jackson or Calvert-Lewin or any forward or even Evan Nielsen.

And even if there are price changes early on in the week, I absolutely have to wait for all of the press conferences later on in the week to have some updates around the injuries that I've got.

I cannot go early with one transfer and so many problems to potentially fix.

He is quite expensive though.

So the way that my squad is structured at the moment, I don't have the luxury to do that.

Elsewhere, Evan Ilsen, Kostulak, Jackson, Calvert-Lewin, Barry and Thiago.

It probably won't be Thiago.

It's been like that for a couple of weeks.

But a lot of us are on Haaland, Joe Pedro, Calvert-Lewin.

Some people are on a two-striker set-up.

Other people are on Bari, who they don't mind keeping.

Who is the best Gonçalo replacement? Gonçalo Garcia from Fulham.

He's been very disappointing against the three promoted teams.

Matthias mentions Jackson, Eva Nielsen, Calvert-Lewin or Bari.

And is there anyone else worth mentioning? So I think, Matthias, you have mentioned the best options.

If I had more than one transfer, as I say, I would consider selling Jal Pedro and I'd probably be going straight to Jackson.

I think Calvert-Lewin is worth a consideration as well.

But it's not a luxury I can afford to sell and then re-buy in three game weeks when there's other things I'd like to be doing by them.

Like I want to buy a Vascovic after the break maybe because he's got holes so that fixture onwards.

We kind of talked about on the IR, it was brilliant.

And I mean, look, I do think that we were fortunate because Dominic Calvert-Lewin was in some form prior to injury.

And I think he's critical to being able to allow them to... or rather that type of striker going long and competing.

Yeah.

So Holland owned by 78% of teams, Joe Pedro owned by 71% of teams.

And then that third Ford most owned Dominic Calvert-Lewin owned by 22% of teams.

And that's basically the template.

If I were to sum it up, I think what you'll see in pretty much 99% of active teams, you'll see Pascal Gross, you'll see De Kuyper, you'll see three Chelsea attackers, probably Rodgers, Palmer, and Jal Pedro.

He is on penalties.

So the next time they get a penalty, this underlying data is going to absolutely shoot up a bit.

But I do think there's some good alternatives that if you're concerned about Calvert-Lewin picking up an injury, which You should have that concern.

He's not a injury robust forward or player in general.

And against Manchester United, his dead ball delivery also played a part in the equaliser.

Stak delivered the corner, Marinovic won the ball in the area and Dominic Calvert-Lewin eventually finished.

Now that doesn't give Stak the official assist, but he was involved in starting the sequence that led to the goal.

This is why I don't think it's fair to dismiss his attacking contribution, simply because his progression statistics are poor.

You know, I do come back to yesterday was a game that suited Luke 0-9 down to the ground.

It was a kind of gritty, messy, scrappy, get stuck in, wrestle with Dominic Calvert-Lewin, win headers, win that.

But you've still got to go and do it.

And under pressure, given everything that had happened defensively the week before, I thought 0-9 was absolutely superb.