This article is part of Football FanCast’s The Chalkboard series, which provides a tactical insight into teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…
Has he done enough to get a chance?
Well if you look at his past, it shouldn’t really be up for debate.
Lys Mousset has found minutes hard to come by so far this season, restricted to just one start in the Premier League, although he made very good use of that by scoring the winner against Arsenal last week.
He then made it two goals in two games after he came off the bench to score the equaliser away to West Ham United.
So now that he seems to be finding his form at Bramall Lane, it’s time that the question is asked of whether he should now be trusted to start games on a more regular basis?
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He does have plenty of competition for a starting spot, with the likes of David McGoldrick, Oliver McBurnie, Billy Sharp and to an extent Callum Robinson all fighting it out to get a chance in the starting eleven.
The good thing about Sheffield United’s system of 3-5-2/5-3-2 is that with two men up top, it would make his case to be a regular a little bit easier because he isn’t just fighting it out for one spot as he would do in a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 that most modern sides play with.
Whilst his record in the Premier League might not look all that promising, with just 6 goals in 65 games, the fact is that the majority of those appearances came as a substitute, so he hasn’t really been given the opportunity to shine.
If you go back to the last time he was a regular starter with Le Havre back in 2015/16, he managed to score 14 goals in 23 appearances and chipped in with three assists as well.
So if he can get a regular run of games under his belt once he is used to a system, which it looks like he has under Chris Wilder, he can certainly prove a threat in this division. He just now has to be given the advantage over the plethora of options they already possess.
But he can’t do that if he is sitting on the bench, he needs to be given the chance to prove himself. If it turns out that he’s not up to it, then the Blades can use one of the many other forwards at their disposal and keep him as a ‘super-sub’. It won’t hurt to try.
