Andy Halliday has revealed to Open Goal that he believes former Rangers team-mate Alfredo Morelos is a ‘poor finisher’.
Morelos has ripped the Premiership to shreds since arriving from Helsinki three years ago.
The 23-year-old hitman scored 29 goals for Rangers in all competitions last season – and astonishingly, 28 of them were scored in the first half of the campaign.
And although Halliday – who was released by the Ibrox club this summer – acknowledges that his former colleague is an ‘unbelievable goalscorer’, the Scottish midfielder says his Colombian counterpart was decidedly average in front of goal.
He said during an interview with Simon Ferry: “See the thing is with Alfredo? I’d go as far to say he’s a poor finisher, but he’s an unbelievable goalscorer.
“He’s one of those who you’d watch in game and training and he’d scaff everything into the bottom corner and you’d think that was ugly as anything, but it just goes in all the time!”
This is a pretty odd claim by Halliday, it must be said.
There is a difference between being a brilliant goalscorer and clinical in front of goal, but can anyone who scored 28 goals during a four-month period be described as a bad finisher? Probably not.
Morelos certainly struggled in front of goal in Old Firm games against Celtic, having failed to score a single goal against them since arriving in Glasgow in 2017, but for the most part he’s an exceptional centre-forward and his record pretty much speaks for itself.
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