You at all times get gamers who will utterly break up opinions like marmite does, and Raheem Sterling is one in all them.
The Chelsea winger nonetheless has some fairly huge followers and believers in his capacity, largely from the media and pundits. Many Chelsea followers additionally nonetheless suppose he’s high class. However on the opposite aspect, I personally know many Chelsea followers who simply don’t fee him in any respect and by no means will.
I at all times desire to take a look at either side of the argument and in final evening’s recreation towards Blackburn, I noticed either side, and that sums up Sterling.
I’ve seen some retailers score him an 8 and a few even above, and that does annoy me.
I watch soccer from begin to end by means of the entire 90 minutes, and I choose a gamers efficiency general. Sterling was very poor within the first half final evening, however a lot better within the second half. His objective was class and inevitable after the primary half as a result of that simply sums him up! However don’t base an general efficiency score on one objective – that isn’t the way it ought to work.
I rated Sterling a 7 on my web site, but when he didn’t rating that objective and have a barely higher second half, I’d have given him a 4. He wasn’t good general, regardless of stepping up and scoring a superb objective.
However for me, that’s simply Raheem Sterling, no?
Some arguments are {that a} participant can’t play to a excessive customary each single recreation, and that’s true. However Sterling for me is barely abnormally inconsistent, and that’s the place my considerations have at all times been with him.
I’ll reward him when he performs nicely, and I’ve given him his flowers on a couple of events this season. He’s been a lot better this season than he was final season and he has usually stepped up as our talisman. His inconsistencies HAVE improved, and I’ll at all times acknowledge that.
However he nonetheless frustrates me and is the supply of me shouting on the TV display screen far too usually. Within the first half yesterday he was giving the ball away a lot and breaking down our personal assaults – and that’s one thing I’ve grown far too used to seeing from Sterling.
He can hit an excellent end, little doubt about that. He can dribble previous three gamers and make one thing occur, little doubt about that. However he’s nonetheless simply too inconsistent, there’s additionally little doubt about that, in my opinion.
Will we simply have to simply accept that’s Raheem Sterling and we have now to get by means of the poor intervals to benefit from the good intervals and the surprise objectives?? As a result of in spite of everything, he IS scoring objectives for us this season and offering an actual menace in assault.
Personally, when you requested me what I’d do if somebody made a proposal for Sterling in January and we may exchange him with a constant and high quality winger, I truly wouldn’t hesitate in saying sure. That may sound harsh, however that’s simply how I really feel – we want extra. Why can’t we have now a winger who is nice more often than not slightly than a number of the time?
These are my views. However don’t get me fallacious, when Sterling is ticking he’s on hearth and could be devastating. I’ll by no means hate on him, and I’ll at all times reward him when he earns that reward. However I name issues as I see them and I simply suppose that we want somebody who is superb most of the time, slightly than simply a number of the time.
