Topic 5552887
I don't think the team is entirely reliant on him because I've seen us perform even on days he was injured. Even if he doesn't play, he contributes to the team on and off the pitch and I'm not perturbed if he doesn't end up playing. The team with this team is that, the day they're going to win, you'd just know. Look at how Lookman stepped up.

And yes, we're not the best team but there are sometimes we have individual players than can do some individual brilliance from time to time.

I believe the other reason he appears to be very important for the team is that he has no competition in his position - I initially thought Boniface was going to be that guy to give Osimhen a tough challenge for the 9 spot, but he ended up being the biggest flop, hooked and dumped out of the National team.

Until we have real competition in that position, we will be overly reliant on Osimhen, and he has shown on multiple occasions that we cannot cope without him.  He improved the squad when he is on the pitch.