Without Harry Redknapp, few would remember the moment that Darren nodded widely for Tottenham from six meters late in a Premier League match at home in Portsmouth in January 2009.
But when Redknapp joked: “My missus could have scored that,” was Bent’s Miss immediately immortal as an archetype of the wasteful chance.
Nowadays the couple laughed at the incident when they bump into each other, but it is an honest bet Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins will not laugh after a quirky interruption head in Sunderland was compared with Bent’s notorious blunder.
Matty Cash scored Villa’s first goal of the season in the Stadium of Light, but it was not enough to prevent Sunderland from saving a 1-1 draw, despite the first half of the dismissal of Mozambican defender Reinildo for violent behavior.
‘There is not that someone is not entirely right with Ollie Watkins’
Villa still has to win this season in the Premier League, a run of form that the club left in the 18th position and has encouraged manager Unai Emery to burn his players “Lazy”. As a record position of the club, Watkins is particularly examined, and although questions have been asked about whether the 29-year-old gets sufficient support from his teammates, former midfielder of Manchester United Paul Scholes believes that the issue can run deeper.
“There is someone who is not entirely right,” said Scholes, who scored 155 goals in 718 matches for United, on the good, the bad and the football podcast.
‘I don’t think he was ever a brilliant finisher anyway. I think he works brilliantly[ly] He comes in good positions for his teammates, but the number of times I see him opt for the wrong finish. I think that’s [the difference] Between him and the Top class Center-Forwards.
“I am enabled [for the Sunderland game] And when I saw that chance, he has to score. It reminded me, you remember that Harry Redknapp got angry with Darren years ago and said: “My wife would have scored”? It felt that way.
“I like him, and there was talk about him who came to Man United at one point – Man United should have buy him – but I just think it’s the last bit of real quality he misses.
“But without being disrespectful for him, there he is: you have the top ahead, and he is in the category just below.”
Why did Ollie Watkin’s form lost for Aston Villa?
Although Watkins Gabriel Agbonlahor’s club record of 74 goals broke when he found the net in Bournemouth in May, he struggled towards the end of last season and scored only four times in three months.
The opinion varies from the reason for the malaise of the striker. Some point to the disturbing effect of an £ 40 million from Arsenal in January, others with the effect of playing through a knee injury in the first weeks of the season.
Another way of thinking, one is subscribed to the former Villa frontman Dion Dublin, suggests that Emery should bear a degree of responsibility after dropping Watkins from the starting line-up for both legs of last season against the quarter finals of last season against Paris Saint-Main, which the attacker has been reassessed.
“When they played against PSG, he didn’t play Ollie, he played [Manchester United loanee] Marcus [Rashford] Instead, and I think Ollie may still carry that around, “said Dublin.
“A huge game, the hard work by Ollie Watkins brought them in the first place to that situation, and he probably thought:” My nose is here from joint. Everything I have done for you, and you don’t play me. “
Whatever the truth is, Villa needs a lot of Watkins fit and shoots a little more disturbing before a slow start of the season becomes.
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