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BAGGIES MUST BE CAREFUL WITH ACE DWIGHT…

DWIGHT Gayle is to the Championship what Sergio Aguero is to the Premier League. A nailed on certainty to score goals.
Anonymous for long tracts of play. Not much use as a hold-up man. But offer even the sniff of a chance and he’ll be in there like a dog under the dinner table.
I was about to say he scored three goals from three chances at Rotherham last week, but that would be doing Gayle a disservice.
The first was a free-kick, so hardly gilt-edged. The second was a twice-deflected cross that he somehow headed goalwards just a yard off the deck.
Even the third, a tapin after a goalk...

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