Graham Smyth explains what Leeds veterans Brian Deane and Lee Chapman told him about young forward Mateo Joseph's barren run in front of goal
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00:00Just going back on to Matteo Joseph though, you spoke this week to two former
00:10lead strikers. You wanted to speak to others but they refused to return your calls because
00:16you know they see Graham Smith pop up on their phone and they just immediately red button.
00:20But Brian Dean and Lee Chapman were kind enough to give you a little bit of their time
00:25and they had some very interesting things to say about Matteo and his current form.
00:30The struggles that he's having, their experience as a young striker and how
00:35ultimately you get out of that slump.
00:38I thought what Brian Dean said was particularly good advice about how he would watch videos of
00:43himself a lot and the good things that he did, scoring goals or whatever it was,
00:48being involved in goals and really reinforce positives. The whole power of thinking I did
00:53that, I did all those things, I can do that again and building into a performance right
01:00from the warm-up, making sure that everything you do is right, your first pass is right,
01:05your first touch is right and just setting yourself up, building stepping stones to
01:10set yourself up to score a goal. Lee Chapman talked about, he was a bit more rudimentary,
01:18his advice was basically just extra finishing drills and the coach can help and put an arm
01:25around him. In amongst all of that, Lee Chapman really was in no mood to sugarcoat it. He was
01:30saying if he was 17, 18 you'd give him more time but he's 21 now. Some Leeds fans thought
01:34that was harsh because of Matteo Joseph's age and where he is in his career but also
01:39Lee Chapman scored 200 career goals, something like that, and scored a lot of goals at the top level.
01:44So he does know his onions.
01:48you