MonteCuler
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You can ask him to control a ball or press with 10℅ of the intensity others do.He maybe terrible to watch but 30 goals so far this season. Honestly you can't ask for more from a striker. Likely reach 40 goals at the end of the season.
By the way, for a striker's goal stats to be valued they need to come consistently. Roughly homogenously spread throughout the season. Meanwhile that's not the case with Lewa. He accumulated his goals tally until November and then had a massive goal crisis that still hasn't really ended.
It's like if you were to score 20 goals in 2 matches in the season against 2 shit teams (impossible but for my point). At the end of the season you'd have 40 goals, but they won't be worth as much as those of some guy who scored same ammount in 30 matches. Now Lewa has been doing something similar.
And this is also just one of many ways that statistics can deceive you about how a certain player performs. There is no other truth than that Lewandowski has been more of a liability this season than anything else. If that can change, it would be nice - but his ball control problems, lack of speed, pressing intensity problem and many more, none of them seems to be fixable because he's too old to be a Barca starting striker.
Finishing problem seems to be fixable because he has it in himself and that's the only thing I really hope he works on in the most important part of the season.