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To further my point above, we have to look at last night's game and ask: what would Rooney have done? That's the role that Cosgrove is essentially filling. Rooney generally needed a couple of chances in a game to score, he'd probably have scored Sam's header once in every three attempts, but we nearly always made more chances for him in a game. It was very rare that you said: "he's done all the work himself for that goal", or "he's made that goal himself" (Cosgrove did that numerous times). Had Rooney been up front last night, we'd have likely had the same result, because all our fancy football was played nowhere near the front man, who always had two men in close proximity. There was one chance last night that didn't fit that pattern and it's the one where we had a great move and Hedges squared to Cosgrove who was on his heels. The commentator suggested Hedges should have shot, but that wasn't the case. Cosgrove should have read it and would have had an easy free attempt on goal. It was probably the only time we created a good chance last night that Rooney would have scored every time.