Welbeck v Hernandez
It’s a simple question and one had I asked at the very beginning of the season, would have seemed like a no-brainer in favour of the Mexican.
Last season Chicharito was arguably the biggest positive in United’s entire campaign bursting onto the scene with a series of memorable and important goals that quickly established him as one of the world’s most lethal young strikers.
While Chicharito was bagging goals with aplomb for United, Danny Welbeck was busy impressing, albeit to a lesser degree at Sunderland. The Mancunian may not have set the scoring charts alight but he did bag some important strikes and proved he could hack it in the Premier League, a lesson United took heed of.
This season, Welbeck has stepped it up a gear, scoring freely and linking up with the likes of Cleverley, Anderson, Nani and Rooney to give United the sort of football that’s often been missing these past couple of seasons. Meanwhile Chicharito, recovering from a head injury picked up in pre-season, hasn’t been able to enjoy a real run in the side yet, although he’s still managed to bag a brace of goals at the Reebok.
Welbeck’s actually played one less league game than Chicharito- mainly due to a hamstring picked up against Arsenal, but has shone since his return bagging two goals against Basel and a late nerve calmer in the last league game versus Norwich.
The question then is who should start against Liverpool at Anfield a week on Saturday? Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez , who took the Premier League by storm last season or Danny Welbeck, who’s done something not too dissimilar this season?
Personally, I think you should start the form player in a game that should United win, would give us the boost to make our start to the season almost unreal. Welbeck couldn’t have done much better this season and while Chicharito is definitely a big game player, I feel he’d be more useful coming off the bench should he be needed than Welbeck would.
It’s a great problem for Sir Alex to have to wrestle and either way there’s no real wrong answer, tell us which young striker you’d start against Liverpool?
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Can you put some more cliches in there please? Not enough for my liking.
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Best comment i’ve seen…. sooooo many cliches!
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I stl prefer the pea boy cos of his sharpnes at 18 box. He is technicaly versatile,reliable & dangeros 2 any oponent.though,danny hav a sense of goal dan pea in terms of dribling.very slogish bt agile wen cos 2 ball and legs lik his bro barbatov. Lets gv pea boy d 1st 45 b4 danny. Femi
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I am so tired of people even talking about this nonsense. Are you kidding me? This is not even worthy of being discussed. Pea plays 2 matches where he does not score and we are so quick to talk about Welbeck taking his place? Ridiculous.. Hernandez is th starter he has jelled with Wazza in an amazing manner they compliment each other beautifully. Hernandez is so much more dangerous than welbeck just look at last season even with Rooney out he carried the team to glory.. give me a break the man has earned his spot and it wont be taken by anyone unless he is injured or tactical reasons.
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Jesse Reply:
October 12th, 2011 at 9:25 am
Guy dats d latest truth let Chicharito start in line up and Welbeck at second half most prefferable if United must win at Anfield.
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Sort of a moot point isn’t it. Both strikers have shown that they can do the job off the bench, both can score as starters. Lets just hope that which ever one starts gives their best Berbatov impression from last year.
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Not even worth talking about. Javier been doing very weep last yr. And this season wow just wait his leathel in the box
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Eventhough I admire danny performance, I prefer start Javier because he is quick, naturally talented finisher & big game man.
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Simple food for thought… definately begin with welbeck,when he gets exhauted in the second half then sub chicharito to move fast on an alraedy worn down liverpool defence.
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Both players are good but i will prefer chicharito 2 start.
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