2023-12-27 05:33:08
Star News Reporter Lee Won-hee | 2023.12.27 14:33
Dominic Solanke. /AFPBBNews=News1 Dominic Solanke focusing on the game. /AFPBBNews=News1 England striker Dominic Solanke (26, Bournemouth) has emerged as a surprise candidate for top scorer. Solanke’s team, Bournemouth, won 3-0 at home once morest Fulham in the 19th round of the 2023-2024 English Premier League (EPL) held at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, England, on the 27th (Korean time). This time, team striker Solanke scored. In the 16th minute of the second half, when the team was ahead 1-0, he calmly fired a shot from a penalty kick opportunity and hit the net.
Thanks to this, Bournemouth won by 3 goals. Along with Solanke, Justin Kluivert and Luis Sinisterra scored. Fulham is a mid-tier team with solid power, but they were no match for Bournemouth. Bournemouth had only 62% of ball possession, but dominated with a total shooting score of 16 to 8. Although there were only 4 effective shots, they showed highly accurate attack power by turning 3 of them into goals.
Bournemouth is considered to be the team with the most momentum recently. Including this game, they went undefeated with 6 wins, 1 draw, and 7 games in 7 games. The beginning of the season was very sluggish, but the atmosphere was successfully turned around. With the upward trend, the league ranking was raised to 10th place (7 wins, 4 draws, 7 losses, 25 points).
The reason Bournemouth was able to suddenly show strength was because key players returned from injury and their performance improved. Also, Solanke’s revival is a big help. This season, Solanke scored 12 goals in 18 league games. Not only was he the team’s top scorer, but he also took on the challenge of being the league’s top scorer. Currently, Solanke ranks second in the league in scoring, along with Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah (12 goals). The gap with leader Erling Haaland (Man City, 14 goals) is not large.
Solanke scored more goals than ‘Korea Captain’ Son Heung-min (Tottenham). Tottenham ace Son Heung-min has scored 11 goals in 18 games this season.
The recent scoring pace is the highest in the league. Solanke has scored 8 goals in the last 7 games. He scored multiple goals once morest Newcastle and also hit the net once morest Aston Villa. He also scored once morest Manchester United, leading the team to a 3-0 win, and scored a hat-trick once morest Nottingham Forest.
Solanke continued the good mood by scoring once morest Fulham this time. Whoscored.com, a European soccer statistics site, gave Solanke a rating of 7.52. In addition to the penalty kick goal, he threatened the opponent’s goal with three shots. He also won two aerial duels and recorded one dribble breakthrough. The rating from Footmob, another statistical media, was also respectable at 7.4.
Dominic Solanke. / AFPBBNews = News 1 Solanke attracted attention as a great striker who would lead the England national team during his youth. He grew up in the youth ranks of big club Chelsea and then moved to Liverpool. However, he might not find a place in Liverpool. He eventually moved to Bournemouth in 2019. He did not blossom right away at Bournemouth. Solanke suffered from major and minor injuries, and scored no goals in the 2018-2019 season and only 3 goals in the 2019-2020 season. Amid Solanke’s sluggish performance, Bournemouth was relegated to the second division. There was harsh criticism directed at Solanke. But this turned out to be a blessing in disguise. By relieving his burden, Solan Ke gradually showed his growth potential. In the second division, Solanke scored 15 goals in the 2020-2021 season and 29 goals in 46 games in the 2021-2021 season. Thanks to this, Bournemouth also achieved promotion.
Last season, Solanke performed well, scoring 6 goals and 7 assists in 33 EPL games. He is showing off performance beyond imagination this season.
His continued performance even sparked rumors of a transfer to a big club. According to The Sun in the UK on the 26th, Tottenham, where Son Heung-min plays, is interested in signing Solanke. Tottenham is looking for a replacement for Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), who left the team. In addition, it is known that ‘championship favorite’ Arsenal is keeping an eye on Solanke.
Dominic Solanke (middle red jersey). /AFPBBNews=News1
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