I’m not Sam Winnall’s biggest fan but I’m glad that, by all accounts, he had a better game than usual yesterday. I can’t comment as I only saw the extended highlights so just saw him give away a penalty and miss an absolute sitter.
I find it hilarious that some people are so keen to back him though that they’re trying to blame the miss on Sykes?! As a wide player, all you can do is make a great run into the box, take a touch, then slide a ball across the box, away from the keeper, directly in to the path of your onrushing striker… As the striker it’s your job to adjust your feet and tap that into an empty net. Sykes could do no more, Sam Winnall absolutely has to score that. Yes it might not have been exactly, 100%, precisely where he wanted it but Sykes is in a moving situation where he has one chance to play that in. Any striker in world football, given that ball, wouldn’t say ‘What the hell was that?! You expected me to score from THAT ball?!?’ Come on guys. Be reasonable.