Paterson is not an all around player and goes awol when the chips are down.
I don't know what you mean by all around player, but I don't expect an ATM to be a defender. I don't expect defenders to be strikers either.
And Paterson definitely didn't go awol against Charlton. He was one of our best players, if not the best, as long as he was on that pitch.
Here is one funny stat from the Charlton game. The only Charlton cross we blocked was blocked by Paterson. Not by Latibeaudiere, Wood, Fulton, Grimes, Darling, Manning etc. Paterson obviously got so angry with our defending that he run from the left to the right flank to help Lati and block that cross.
Today against L1 in the first half he showed very little.
The whole team showed very little, so it's pointless to single out one player. Also, he set up Grimes for our best chance in the first half. I repeat, for our best chance in the first half. Also, he was the only one who tried to put some crosses in.
I would have expected him to have had more of an impact or at least worked to be more involved. He didn’t scream pick me.
He did, but he was on numerous occassions overseen by Naughton, Grimes etc.
I think we have better. And as the saying goes … past performance is no guarantee of future …
I don't think we have better attacking midfielders, if we don't count Piroe as an attacking midfielder, and these here are SofaScore ratings for last season.
And these are Whoscored ratings.
Without doubt he was one of our best players last season, and since Mitchu we haven't had a so productive ATM. A player who can produce 9 goals and 9 assists has to be in the starting XI. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying Congreve can't score and assists more.