Daniel Sturridge has hit back at
suggestions he is not a team player. The Liverpool
frontman has attracted criticism throughout his career about his work-rate
and willingness to dig deep for the side.
He has started all three games since Gareth
Southgate's arrival as interim manager, scoring in wins over Malta and Scotland
but receiving modest reviews for his efforts in the stalemate against Slovenia.
Asked about the perception that he does not offer enough around the park,
Sturridge said: “I don't worry about
that, it's an unfair opinion. I feel that I contribute to the team with assists
and goals. It doesn't really matter what people say to me. It's about
positional awareness at the end of the day, my job is to score and my job is to
create for the team and coming into the midfield positions is maybe too deep. I
feel that if I'm coming short and I'm trying to get involved in the game then
there's no-one up front in the forward positions. It's important to have a
focal point of the team. If I drop deep and come on the ball, do skills and
take people on there's no one in the centre-forward position. That's where I
need to be, in between the lines, threatening the centre-halves, pushing them
back and creating space for the other people. Sometimes I have to drop in there
to maybe give them a different picture to create more problems but, again, it's
about being in the box. That is where I need to be.”
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