Shearer, a man who knows better than anyone else how to score goals in the Premier League, has given his view of the situation in the act of penning his latest column for The Athletic:
“Having sat and squirmed through every one of his missed chances for Chelsea, I know precisely what Timo Werner will be going through. First thing in the morning, middle of the day, last thing at night, the same thought will be jabbing at his brain: “Where is my next goal coming from?”
“He’ll be praying for one to go in off his arse, for that little fluke, anything to have that feeling again. When you lose it, nothing is worse.”
“In those 11 games in all competitions since his last goal, you can see Werner’s desperation fester and grow to the point where if you’d been watching him play for the first time recently you’d assume he was just terrible at finishing.”
“His record for Germany and RB Leipzig tells you otherwise, but we’re talking about a player whose confidence is zero — it’s shattered and battered — and he’s got no belief in his ability to put the ball in the back of the net.”
Werner has already proven himself able of scoring in the Premier League. There was no Fernando Torres-esque barren run.
However, he needs to get his shooting boots on soon, or he could find himself in that bracket with a fair few other Chelsea strikers who arrived with big expectations and failed to deliver.
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