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So they reckon MV played in the morning at Reading and then traveled to Peterborough to play there. I assumed he just isn't as fit as anyone else it. He only came back what 2 or 3 days before Kane and Carroll returned, I haven't seen MV in any training pics either so just assume he was using the u21 game to get minutes.
Must add I'm so pleased for Oduwa at the moment. Sheiy Ojo was getting a Champ loan and Oduwa is as good as him, not surprised to hear he was giving Championship quality defenders trouble.
While it is one game, I think I was discussing this with @DaSpurs but it shows why we don't need Demarai Gray. It's the classic case of coming through a lesser club and getting chances and appearing better than players stuck top academies' u21s.
The thing is though buddy, you're still caught up on the notion of who's better, and that's not the point that was being made at the time. It was about specific attributes (Gray is faster than Oduwa, while Oduwa is more powerful), and specifically that we lacked that attribute of speed on our left side.
Only buying/promoting who is better can lead to an incompatible and unbalanced team. If the link to Gray was true at the time, then I suspect it was because we were lookin for young outright speed, not because we were looking for someone "better" than Oduwa.