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Former Premier League striker Brian Deane has backed Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins to win the Golden Boot next season.
The Villa forward bagged 19 top-flight goals last term, which is a joint-club record. Watkins also recorded 13 assists for his teammates, winning him the Playmaker of the Season award.
Gabriel Agbonlahor is Villa’s record Premier League goalscorer with 74 goals, but Watkins will be hunting him down next season, needing 16 to smash the record. And Deane, who scored the first Premier League goal ever, believes Watkins can outscore Man CIty’s Erling Haaland – who has topped the goal-scoring charts for the past two seasons – next term.
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“I think that you have to look at Ollie Watkins this season, because with Haaland whilst Man City are always going to create chances, teams are starting to understand his movement more and are starting to create a plan,” Deane told DAZN, via the home of Online Betting.
“With a team that has so much possession, there isn’t a lot of space versus with an Aston Villa, the goal that Ollie Watkins scored at the Euros, I can see him scoring goals like that for fun in the league next season. I think Aston Villa are a work in progress and so is Ollie, but he is young enough to be able to improve again on what he has done last season.
“When he didn’t get selected for the World Cup squad, he just took it, he never came out in public and said he was disappointed and obviously he was disappointed, but he’s very professional and has a great approach. And you just look at him and you can see that this is a guy that is well liked by everybody around him.”
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