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Kuyt has benefited from a break of constant Thurs, Sun games. His main output is his work ethic and energy, take that away and he is average.
Tonight he reminded me of the player that was so good in the title run in where we narrowly lost out to United. He was superb then, really did roll back the years tonight.
Never been Kuyt's biggest fan, but all credit to him in recent weeks. He is working as hard as ever, but seems to be doing it higher up the pitch, meaning he doesn't have to make up so much ground. This allows him to get in the box more, where he is most dangerous.
The man is amazing, thrived tonight in a team full of movement. Disagree fully with Craig's sentiment I think he has easily been one of our most consistent performers since joining barring a half year slump after his father's death.
Also aside from his workrate in his recent performances he is also on a good run of goalscoring form.
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9 league goals this season in a struggling side, often on the right of a ridiculous 442. More than earned his year extension.
As I said above, I really hope he benefits from being rotated & having more quality around him next season. He struggles when he's expected to do it all by himself, but when he's playing as part of a fully functional, fluid attacking unit as last night & formerly with Gerrard & Tosser, he's worth his weight in gold.
Thinking about it, I think he's improved quite a bit since Suarez and Carroll came in.
With Suarez, he links so well with him and those two seem to be on the same wave length. Whilst Dirk isn't expected to take so many hits from holding the ball up now as that has fallen to Carroll.
Dirk has never been about isolating players and taking them on, but as long as we have players who can do that it means he can just get on with finding space which he does so well.
And I don't think we can take for granted how hard he works. It's no suprise to me that Kelly and Flanagan look solid at the back despite their inexperience. Dirk works so hard in front of the full back that it makes their job so much easier.
I can't help but think that if Kuyt had been a left mid Insua would still be here. He'd have never have been so over exposed.
Even if we splash out on a top class winger in the summer, Dirk will still play minutes of every single game next season. Up front, left wing, right wing, off the bench. He'll be involved. The man is simply never injured.
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