If there’s one thing that our 4-0 win over Stirling Albion taught us, it’s that Fashion Sakala really should be getting a run of games in the team.
Even taking into consideration the standard of opposition, his work-rate, attitude and sheer determination to make something happen should be enough to see him recalled.
He is a player that has shown, against Hearts and Motherwell in particular already this season, that he can be a match winner – the old saying about “you have to buy a ticket to win the lottery” is never truer for a forward who loves nothing more than to drive at defenders and get shots off at goal.
Sakala is the only player in the squad that could have scored the goal he scored against Stirling Albion because of his pace, Juninho Bacuna’s perfectly weighted through ball was played the moment the Zambian international released the ball and set off towards the opposition goal, that is exactly what we were missing against Aberdeen.
We need as many goal scorers in the team without disrupting our shape and how we play, he might be a more natural forward but his pace and enthusiasm means that he would never leave his full-back isolated or stand back and watch others tidy up his mess should he lose possession.
In every title race there is always someone who puts their hand up when it matters most, in years gone by it was Ally McCoist and Mark Hateley, the nit as Kyle Lafferty before Alfredo Morelos dragged us over the line to 55 – could this year be Sakala’s turn to shine?