Football

That is a ridiculous answer. You cannot play in the modern game and only be judged on the merits of ONE facet of your game (i.e - goal scoring). Imagine if someone said "xxxx is a tackler, and can only be judged as a tackle maker", or more relevant; "The goalkeeper is a shot stopper, and can only be judged on his ability to stop shots".

Plus, you are taking Chalfie's reference to the statistics in the article (which relates purely to Defoe and not to the authors point about Adebayor) and skewing the whole discussion.

Is this an example of over complicating a simple game? How good a passer was Mascherano long or short? How good were his shots? What about his movement off the ball? What would you rate him at outside of tackling? Great teams are all about balance. Though I'm surprised Defoe was never coached on his movement off the ball.

Kyut was played well out of position. He scored in the big games when needed. +You'd bet you gaff on him in a shoot out.