In praise of Rodrigo Muniz

[bahay18]

When he is fit his games to goals ratio has been pretty good . But if any of our strikers get close to 10 if they played all 38 games i would think that a decent return

 
Season   Premier League Appearances   Premier League Starts   Goals
2023/24   26   18   9
2024/25   31   8   8

[LittleErn]

I'm only posting this as nobody else appears to have mentioned it either on here or on X,
If you look back at the goal yesterday it came from a corner, that corner came about in part because of the physical presence of Rodrigo Muniz, it was only a little thing but he jumped with the keeper to deny him the chance of taking an easy catch, and in doing so the keeper tipped the ball behind for a corner,
I honestly don't think I've seen Garcia close enough to the keeper to challenge him all season, he literally carries no physical threat whatsoever.
He gets a lot of abuse on here so I just wanted to hi-light something that tends to go unnoticed.

Both of our strikers (not including JKA) seem to be really good at many of the intangible kind of qualities.  Garcia is solid with his pressing and makes a lot of clever runs, Muniz as you point out is a really tricky physical presence to come up against and his awkwardness can make it difficult for defenders to battle with him.

Unfortunately neither seem to actually possess the main quality strikers need - putting the ball in the back of the net

Agree with both the above. I have been critical of Muniz for a long time, but in his cameo yesterday he looked sharper than I have seen him before. The speed with which he closed the keeper down was a revelation to me. I will watch him against CP in midweek with renewed interest.

Looks like I've been right all along. Mind you, Garcia isn't doing much better at his main job - scoring goals.

[bahay18]

Muniz didnt do his case any good tonight ,very disjointed . Worry is , garcia missed a sitter again and leaves a huge problem at centre forward