Steven Gerrard is paid the big bucks because he has to make the big decisions, one of those is how to fit Alfredo Morelos and Kemar Roofe into the same team – if he still believes that they are the right choice together in the forward line.
Despite Rangers dominating possession, Roofe touched the ball just 20 times in 75 minutes before he was replaced by Fashion Sakala, that the Zambian international made more of an impression maybe suggests we need to try something less predictable at the weekend and give him a start.
Sakala, given a rating of 7.1 by SofaScore compared to Roofe’s 6.9 indicates that he made every attempt to change the game, the run behind David Bates causing enough of a problem to win a penalty – that he offers a different threat doesn’t mean that the other pair are any less effective, it’s just a case of choosing the right games for them to play in.
The problem with Roofe and Morelos is a good one to have, they are both quality strikers and, if we play them together, one or both of them, will usually score, however, they simply don’t work as a pairing especially when we gift opposition teams a goal or two of a head start.
It’s a problem that needs to be sorted soon, yes, we have been creating more chances recently but there needs to be more from open play, having someone who can create something from nothing – like Sakala and Ryan Kent – keeps a defence honest, we can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.