Tottenham Hotspur center forward Omar Marmoush has been a disappointment so far, scoring just one goal with no assists in nine total appearances, including eight starts. Although any new transfer has an adjustment period, Marmoush has been in the Premier League before with Manchester City and is set to cost Spurs 60 million pounds at the end of the season, so the early returns have been quite poor.
Spurs and Roberto De Zerbi are desperate to figure out how to get the most out of Marmoush once the international break ends, because he is the only real option they have at striker with how terribly Dominic Solanke has played.
In the first game of the break for Egypt against Malawi, Marmoush managed to find the back of the net in the 10th minute with a scorching finish into the near post, leaving the keeper with no chance. He ran off the shoulder and onto a through ball in the penalty area, latching onto the chance and finishing with the panache of his best years with Eintracht Frankfurt.
Omar Marmoush could use the confidence boost
The goal will hopefully be a confidence booster for Marmoush, and while it was against lowly Malawi and he did not score another for Egypt, he had a good game overall in his 72 minutes of action, including three more chances created for the good of the team.
That strike is a notice to Tottenham Hotspur and manager Roberto De Zerbi of what they could be doing a better job of with Omar Marmoush, and that is getting the 27 year old forward to play more in transition with key passes knocked into the space ahead of him for him to score.
Marmoush had a nice curled goal against Coventry City as his lone strike thus far for the Lilywhites, but as he showed for Egypt vs. Malawi, he is also capable of scoring burners into the near post or scoring, in general, off through balls.
He is not a traditional No. 9, no, but Marmoush can still score goals in another role for Tottenham and can score from other areas of the pitch besides cutting inside, like he did against Coventry. The onus should be on De Zerbi and even his Tottenham teammates to get Marmoush moving more freely and receiving passes he can run past defenders onto and finish first time or after one touch. Marmoush needs service that is more tailord to his skill set, and De Zerbi needs to find a more apt role for him, too.
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