00:00I think there's almost a bit of a conundrum here in that I saw somebody saying Peru should
00:08be given a chance, which to me is utter madness.
00:10If you play Peru instead of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Leeds do not get half the chances that are
00:15being created at the minute.
00:16The reason that Leeds are getting these chances, a lot of them, is because Dominic Calvert-Lewin
00:20is a focal point.
00:22He's a platform.
00:23He's a battering ram against centre-backs.
00:25He's winning the first ball, or he's doing enough that Leeds can win the second ball because
00:30the defender hasn't had a comfortable free header, or he's laying the ball off, he's bringing
00:35people into play, he's running in behind, he's stretching the defence.
00:40All of these things he's doing, and I know that people will be saying he needs to score
00:44goals.
00:45He does need to score goals as well.
00:46There's absolutely no doubt about that.
00:48And that's the other thing that he and Leeds need to remember is that you are going to be
00:53in a relegation battle.
00:54You cannot spurn really good chances all season and expect to get away with it because
01:00that's not how you stay up.
01:02You do have to take your chances.
01:04But again, without Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the team, are Leeds even getting these chances?
01:10Are they even playing that far up the pitch?
01:13And in a lot of cases, I'm going to say no, they're not.
01:16I just don't see Joel Peru being able to battle with centre-backs the way that Dominic Calvert-Lewin
01:23is.
01:24I think he's been massive for the way Leeds have been playing, and I think you have to
01:26persist with him.
01:27I think you have to accept the rough with the smooth a little bit, but at the same time,
01:33you hope and you expect that he'll start to tuck them away and that he'll end in at least
01:38double figures because he's a number nine.
01:41He's been paid a great deal of money.
01:42He's got double-figure seasons in the Premier League before, and Leeds need him to do that.
01:48So there is an expectation.
01:50But again, you have to accept that if he was capable of scoring two in every Premier League
01:57game and all the rest of the work that he does, he's not playing for Leeds United this season.
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