Match Reaction vs The 'Ammers (away).

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Well that's your opinion. I find your view pretty simplistic that you feel a CF has to be a physical match for the Centre Halves. Reus is more in the mould of say Aguero or Suarez, he's not a brute but is no weakling either. Where players like Reus, Suarez or Aguero excel are in their movement and finishing, if you have that you will succeed in PL. Of course they have the added advantage of having upper body strength, but on the ground is where they excel.

If you watch Dortmund closely whilst Reus does start from the left he very much roams across the frontline, not too dissimilar to Bale actually.

What's strange about my valuation of Reus? He's a proven performer in CL, he has had 2 very good seasons for Dortmund in CL playing at a high level, he is a proven performer in Bundesliga, he is a starter for Germany who IMHO are currently the best national side in the world. He's on the cusp of being credited as a world class player who has delivered for a sustained period of time.

Reus would fit into our game easily IMHO, he's a highly technical player with world class movement and is a great finisher, he's also very good from set pieces.

It is my opinion, well noted. Suarez is a physical match as is Aguero for any defender in the league. It's almost as if a player as skilfully gifted as Suarez can't possibly possess impressive physical strength. Well they do. Please let's not try to lump Reus in with Suarez or Aguero. Aguero would knock anyone on his arse. I wouldn't call either a 'brute' because they both have too much footballing ability to be lumbered with that title.....but imo Suarez and Aguero have the strength of brutes.

So yes. I think in the prem if you want to be amongst the best you do have to be a physical match for the CB's in the league. Not necessarily twice as strong as them to knock them out of your way like some oaf, but strong enough to hold them off, occasionally knock them off, give them the shoulder charge back and simply physical enough to fend them off whilst executing the technical things in your game.

RvP, Rooney, Suarez, Aguero, Negredo, Lukaku, Giroud all have enough about them physically to be successes to greater or lesser extents.

You have pretty much repeated my assertion about Reus. He starts from the left and he gets somewhat of a free role in his actual forward play, which fluent and fluid. SO tell me? Why actually play him from a different position to the one he plays so well from at Dortmund. I repeat, if this is his natural game and it works from where he has been so far (starting from the left), what is the actual need to start him at CF, where the emphasis and starting position changes as its proximity approaches the CB's?