The Argentine was at his dazzling best as Sheffield Wednesday thrashed Norwich City.
The last time The Canaries flew into battle against The Owls, Sheffield Wednesday were shorn of their star man. Fernando Forestieri, refusing to play as speculation continued to swirl surrounding his future, was badly missed in attack as Norwich held Carlos Carvalhal’s side to a scrappy 0-0 draw.
Eight months later and the diminutive Argentine was writing headlines once again – though this time at Norwich’s expense. The 27-year-old may have been insolent and absent at Carrow Road but he was inspired at Hillsborough, laying claim to one of the finest individual performances of the season, as reported by the Yorkshire Post.
Scoring one and setting up two, Wednesday cruised to a 5-1 win with Forestieri the beating heart of almost every flowing attack. After a slow start to the season, the former Watford schemer is once again showing exactly why teams were queuing up to take him away from the Steel City.
Yet, while most were swooning at Forestieri’s South American skills, team-mate Ross Wallace, who netted himself with a 40 yard lob after a horror John Ruddy miscue, was keen to keep his floating team-mate grounded.
“Fernando is one of those players, when he is on form he is so hard to play against,” Wallace told the Yorkshire Post. “He was fantastic, but he has to play like that every single week.”
While it’s easy to replay the majesty of those virtuoso performances against Norwich, Brentford and Nottingham Forest, Wallace will remember the below-par 1-0 loss at Leeds United last week.
Forestieri was well off the pace, not for the first time this season, and it’s this unpredictability, some will call it inconsistency, that perhaps stands in the way of an ascension to real Premier League class.
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