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da realbet： When Norwich City signed Finnish striker Teemu Pukki last summer not too many people were familiar with him. Perhaps aficionados of the Bundesliga recalled him from his Schalke days where the Kotka-born hit-man scored an unremarkable 8 goals in 37 appearances. Or perhaps some with knowledge of the SPFL were aware that in 2013/14 he had a brief and unsuccessful stint in Scotland with Celtic.
When it became clear that his time north of the border wasn’t working out he moved to Brondby in Denmark and here his fortunes turned but not significantly so. In four seasons in Scandinavia he reached double figures twice and proved himself to be a useful asset to the Boys from Vestegnen.
The BBC did not deem his capture by the Canaries to be particularly noteworthy, halving the news with a report on their swoop for Wolves winger Ben Marshall. As illustrated in the figures mentioned above we were not dealing with a very prolific forward capable of firing Norwich to any great height.
Or so we thought because what occurred last term was little short of astonishing and certainly entirely unexpected. In his second outing in the Championship Pukki scored against West Brom and from there never looked back, racking up 29 goals in 43 league appearances, a strike-rate that equated to one every 132 minutes.
By the season’s end he also pertinently made 9 assists and was considered so integral to his team’s successful campaign that he walked into the Championship Team of the Year. By the season’s end Norwich were crowned champions.
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For Pukki, though, was this to be a one-season perfect storm? After all, the step up to the Premier League from the level below is extremely tough and chances become fewer, especially for sides expected to struggle.
On the evidence so far that appears to be a resounding no. On the opening evening of the new season it was the 29-year-old who scored the Norfolk side’s consolation in a 4-1 loss at Anfield. Last week against Newcastle he went two better, grabbing a sensational hat-trick. He presently joint-leads the nascent Golden Boot race with Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling.
Should this scoring streak continue – and there is precisely no reason why it shouldn’t aside from the obvious caveat of it being unlikely – then Pukki will achieve something truly special. Because a run-through of previous Golden Boot winners reveals a litany of goal scoring royalty who all not coincidentally played for top six sides. Indeed the last occasion a striker from outside the elite took the top scorer plaudit was Kevin Phillips in 2000. Sunderland finished seventh that year.
This latter fact brings home an admittedly obvious but fundamentally crucial point. Should Pukki continue to keep firing, the odds shorten and shorten on Norwich facing the drop come May.
The video below remind exactly why we’ve missed Norwich fans in the top-flight…
Why it is that a forward who has never previously been the most lethal of marksmen has suddenly found his aim remains difficult to nail down with the answers lying in any number of variances.
It is a specialist role that thrives on feeling wanted; feeling like they’re the main man. It is a position that produces the most fruit under the right man, in front of the right fans, in the right circumstances.
It appears that in Norwich Teemu Pukki has found his feet and got his eye in. That should concern all clubs around them because when those stars align it really doesn’t matter what level of football it transpires in: the goals will come.