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He played very well overall yesterday. Mitrovic wrecks him in every department in terms of hold up play, passing, heading, shielding, etc.

 

What Cisse still has is that box movement that is deadly.

 

Strikers who don't rely on service are usually your world class types who score and create on their own.  Unless people somehow want to see Cisse try and create his own goal again and run into 3 defenders and then not pass the ball off then you'll see less goals from him. Feed him based on his movement and he'll get goals. Unfortunately he's either hit or miss and when he's miss, generally his general play is awful. Yesterday he did something different, he got on a good chance (but was called for a foul) that was a classic Cisse style of attempt at goal. He didn't really have much else but his overall play and movement and work ethic was quite good. Funny that you noticed De Jong barking at him all match telling him where to be and such.

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http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steve-mcclaren-names-striker-who-10679589?

McClaren therefore needs more goals from his side, even if a striker does arrive.

 

He added: “I think if we’d have had Olivier Giroud (against Arsenal), we’d have comfortably won the game. That’s the difference in football.

 

“You’re always searching for that, but unfortunately at the present moment, Riviere is injured, or at least coming back from injury, and Papiss Cisse, who is a goalscorer, is injured for the next two or three months.

 

“We’ve got other goalscorers in there, we just need to step up to the plate and start scoring and doing our job.”

 

When asked to clarify if Cisse was confirmed as being out for two or three months, McClaren responded: “We’re just waiting for a second opinion.”

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Guest reefatoon

Yep, if we can't flog Cisse in January, then we won't spend more money on a striker. The purpleometer would be going haywire.

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