It's almost as if he needed a little bit of time to settle in a new country at a club that changed managers early on in the season. Who would have tonight it?
1) Copa America exertions that had negative effects even on someone like Alexis.
2) New country, new league, new language, new team , much bigger club with much much bigger expectations.
3) Joining a rather dysfunctional team that lost it`s connection and chemistry with their manager.
4) Injury at a very bad time which hindered his process of settling in.
5) New manager, new methods, new way of working.
6) Benteke conundrum that had a negative effect not only on him but on our overall attacking play - we scored only 10 goals in 12 games Benteke started as no.9 and we scored more than 1 goal only on 1 occasion which was a 96th minute equalizer vs Wba. It goes to show something very dysfunctional with our overall attacking play in these games.
...and so on and so forth.
All this just goes to show how difficult it was for him since he signed for us, what he had to go through and it goes to potentially explain why he needed time to fully settle.