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Benik’s feeling the love at the Robins

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The LeaguePaper Team
1 September 2019

CITY’S STYLE OF PLAY HELPS REJUVENATED ACE

Adam Virgo

BRIGHTON LEGEND AND TV PUNDIT
BENIK Afobe has scored more goals in his first five games for Bristol City than he did in his last five months at Stoke.
He suddenly looks a completely different player to the man who cut such a frustrated figure in the Potteries. So what’s changed? To understand that, you have to look at how Benik was used by Kenny Jackett in the 2015-16 season, when he scored 22 goals in the Championship for Wolves.
The former Arsenal trainee was just unplayable that year.
I remember seeing him at Brighton a...

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