Why Cardiff City shouldn’t pile the pressure on Kenneth Zohore next season
By Joshua Slack
Football League
Friday 12th May 2017
The big Dane was in sensational form during the second-half of the season but the pressure shouldn’t be piled on him as Warnock looks to mount a promotion charge next season.
Zohore finished the season in fantastic fashion – scoring and assisting twice, leaving him with 12 goals in 29 Championship appearances.
It might have all been a different story, though, hadn’t it been for a conversation with Neil Warnock – the veteran manager gave the Dane an ultimatum and the 23 year-old hasn’t looked back since.
Since the conversation, Warnock has been full of praise for his forward, who is the cousin of Chelsea legend Didier Drogba, saying he has every single attribute a striker needs.
Zohore is powerful – he has excellent hold-up play and a sledgehammer of a shot on him – the former K.V. Kortrijk player also has superb finishing, which he has shown throughout the second-half of the Championship season.
Without his goals, the Bluebirds may not have finished in the top-half of the Championship table, but saying that, the pressure shouldn’t entirely rest on the robust striker’s shoulders.
There is no doubting Zohore’s ability but he can’t do it all on his own, he’s still young and he’s still learning his own strengths and weaknesses.
You do worry for the Bluebirds if the Big Dane was to get injured, who would come in to replace him, though, but if Idriss Saadi can replicate some of the form which he has shown in Belgium throughout this season, he could be the perfect back-up striker for Zohore.
The 25 year-old Frenchman scored 14 times in 32 games for Belgian Pro League outfit K.V. Kortrijk and will be hoping to get another chance in South Wales with Warnock in charge.
If he can prove to be as successful in the Championship as he was in Belgium, he could well save Neil Warnock money in the summer transfer window with promotion being the target for the Bluebirds next season as well as easing the pressure on the ever-improving Kenneth Zohore.