Clucking Bell wrote:I feel that the only role for Hernandez is when we desperately need a goal at the end of a game, we've got Antonio, Carroll and Arnautovic on the pitch already, and we're throwing everything including the kitchen sink at the other team. As a lone striker, he doesn't have the size or the skills to hold the ball up and, unless he can manage to draw a foul, we may as well pass the ball directly to the opposition. It's not his fault but, the reality is that he's just not suited for Premier League football.
But that is the point. In the main, he won't be asked to play as a lone striker under Pelligrini, holding it up. Pelligrini likes to pass through the middle and in that style Hernandez is ideal.
In this game, we didn't have Arnoutovic so there was less support for him, which completely evaporated once we had 10 men
When Arnie is fit the two of them can work in tandem, even if it is not as a traditional front two.
They have had very limited opportunities to play together under Pelligrini but i think in the next couple of months they will