Here’s a very interesting sponsored article about Charlie Austin’s prospects
Can Austin Keep QPR’s Premier League Engine Running?
There are three strikers being talked about so far in the Premier League. There’s the imperious Diego Costa who has blasted in 14 goals in 17 games. Sergio Aguero, the Argentinian who is perhaps the most feared striker on the planet. And Charlie Austin, the Berkshire lad who six years ago was plying his trade for Poole Town.
It’s been a remarkable season for the QPR frontman scoring 12 in 16 in his first season in the Premier League, turning the heads of fans up and
down the country, Roy Hodgson, and worryingly for Harry Redknapp a lot of top-flight managers.
It’ll be an important month for QPR this January with clubs no doubt on red alert, although Redknapp is insistent he won’t sell his main man. Which will be vital in the Rs battle to stay in the Premier League.
The 25-year-old has scored over half of the Hoops’ goals this season and to say they have been reliant upon the forward would be an understatement. But is that enough to keep them up? Can Austin even keep up his fine run of form? And if he does will it be at QPR?
These are all questions being posed by fans and pundits alike, and there will be plenty of pressure to keep his goalscoring up, particularly with QPR just two points outside the relegation zone with six pointers against Hull and Sunderland approaching as well as the arrival of Manchester United, Southampton, and Arsenal at Loftus Road.
At the moment he’s rivalling Costa and Aguero for the Premier League Top Goalscorer crown and is just behind Alexis Sanchez in terms of odds, and going off previous seasons he’ll certainly bag a few more having never netted fewer than 17 in a season throughout his professional career.
It’s the edge that the other bottom sides don’t have. Aside from Saido Berahino at West Brom – who is rumoured to be interested in a £15million move to Liverpool – none of the bottom seven or eight have a finisher as lethal as Austin.
He no doubt has the ability to provide the goals for his team to keep them up. And if Redknapp is true to his word he will be lining up to face Sunderland and Hull in February, whether the defence can make his goals count though, that’s a different matter.
Ferdinand and Caulker and co have conceded more than anyone in the league and look very shakey when teams come onto them, and despite a potential 20-goal-a-season striker, it might not be enough…
