Former Arsenal forward Alan Smith believes that Dele Alli is a more important player to Tottenham than N’Golo Kante is to Chelsea. To him, Alli should have won the PFA Player of the Year award for his goals contribution. He suggests that anybody can do Kante’s job of running after everybody with the ball as if they stole his hope of survival.
“I’d always go for the man who scores the goals as the most important player,” Smith said.
“We were talking about it and Kante, as brilliant as he is, you could get somebody to do that job though not to quite the same effect.
“If you brought Matic in and said ‘sit there and protect the back four or back three and break up the play’ maybe that wouldn’t be such a loss with Kante out of the team as Dele Alli scoring goals so I would always go with the man that pops up and gets the odd vital goal.”
Alli, who has 20 goals in all competitions this season picked up the PFA Young Player of the Year award for the second consecutive season, whilst Kante won the PFA Player of the Year for his contribution to Chelsea’s title challenge.
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