Lovely ball there.
Totally agree with the corners. It's almost got to the stage of ABE please, anyone but Eriksen. I'd even be prepared to try Trippier from the right, he's got a lovely first time cross when it's harder.
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Totally agree with the corners. It's almost got to the stage of ABE please, anyone but Eriksen. I'd even be prepared to try Trippier from the right, he's got a lovely first time cross when it's harder.
No, no, no. We should get him back to full fitness at our place, sell him for a knock down fee & spend the family silver on a playmaker from overseas who we can say - without seeing him kick a ball in the premier league- can unlock defences better than Erik.
Easy peasy.
Shed the deadwood and start the next season with Dele , Eriksen, Son, Lamela + Isco.
In all honesty, that's far better than we can rightfully expect considering our financials.
Fail to see how any FM-LIKE tinkering could possibly leave us with any such quality and depth.
Yes a satisfactory amount of game time for each will be key to keeping them happy but remember; we'll need to both a) start strong and b) rotate more next season. The latter will be key as we begin to clock up the extra milage due to the bigger pitch and the hope of doing better in Europe.
Front load our spending this summer as necessary. Rather this anyway, so any newbies should already be bedded in by the time we enter the new Lane... Need to minimise any on pitch 'upheaval'/change on that front.
In all honesty, that's far better than we can rightfully expect considering our financials.
Fail to see how any FM-LIKE tinkering could possibly leave us with any such quality and depth.
Yes a satisfactory amount of game time for each will be key to keeping them happy but remember; we'll need to both a) start strong and b) rotate more next season. The latter will be key as we begin to clock up the extra milage due to the bigger pitch and the hope of doing better in Europe.
Front load our spending this summer as necessary. Rather this anyway, so any newbies should already be bedded in by the time we enter the new Lane... Need to minimise any on pitch 'upheaval'/change on that front.
I'm not one to really get excited on corners as many can testify with my endless posts about their effectiveness. But our lovely Argentine lad is our best corner taker and I'd wish he had the balls to say to Eriksen this one's mine amigo when it comes to free kicks some of the time. His delivery is superb.
He's got 21 goals in the past 2 seasons - 11 goals in 2015-16 and 10 in 2014-15.
AM's aren't likely to score 15-20 goals a season.
Also, players are learning what Poch wants. Took Eriksen until midway through last year for him to understand what he wanted. Point is the players you mention contribute to our best performances by knowing what is required of them. Many new faces means more lag to learn what is required.
We scored directly from about 5 or 6 Eriksen corners last season and indirectly - second ball - from another few. I can't remember 1 from Lamela's corners. This season we haven't been as good because teams have cottoned on to our near post routine. Southampton away is the only one I can remember.
I'm not buying Lamela being better at through balls either. He just tries them more often, even when they're not on. Eriksen can do lots of different things with the ball. When has Lamela crossed from the right like Eriksen did twice for Alli against Chelsea? Or cut inside and stroke the ball in with his weaker foot like against Southampton?
Either the guy gets a new contract in the Summer or is sold. My money's on the latter personally.
Let's not pretend CE doesn't beat the first man a hell of a lot of the time. Being able to mix it up is no bad thing...
Personally, keen to see us mix it up with direct FKS too.... CE isn't quite as (consistently) dangerous as he is often portrayed.
(Neither is/was Siggy IMO.... But that's another discussion.)
The tactic is to put corners to the near post and for players like Diet or Toby to get a run on their marker and get a header in a goal like the latter did against Southampton at the weekend. When the defender gets there first it looks bad but in truth all goals conceded at corners are defensive errors.
I'm aware of this.... I'm talking about the many that don't arrive at an attack-able height regardless of what follows from the defenders of attackers.
If the defender is able to simply side foot it clear... In this case that's what I mean by not beating the first man (irrespective of whether it clears the 1st post or not).
Ya right in that the oppo are probably a bit more wise to this tactic now, but again that just suggests we need to mix it up more... Not just persist regardless.
We scored 10 league goals from corners last year (2nd best in League) 5 of them from Lamela. (Don't have other stats for cup comps, no doubt more their too).
Lamela through balls: "because he tries more often" - Thank fuck Kane shoots more often!
"When has Lamela crossed"
Hhhmmm, let me think......
Mainly Europa league against shite tho his Pl record is 8 in 85
You sound like the announcers for NBC Sports last week. All they could talk about was how Jannsen had failed to score from open play in a Premier League game. Just because they aren't league games doesn't make them not count.
We scored 10 league goals from corners last year (2nd best in League) 5 of them from Lamela. (Don't have other stats for cup comps, no doubt more their too).
Lamela through balls: "because he tries more often" - Thank fuck Kane shoots more often!
"When has Lamela crossed"
Hhhmmm, let me think......
No, I can guarantee you we didn't score 5 league goals from Lamela's corners last season. Name the goals please.
I specifically said crosses from the right, where Lamela plays. I think that's the only Lamela cross from which a goal has been scored. This isn't good enough for a 30 million pound wide forward/midfielder.
Erik is good but Dele is miles better than him.
Sometimes I think you just have to accept you're wasting your time mate.We scored 10 league goals from corners last year (2nd best in League) 5 of them from Lamela. (Don't have other stats for cup comps, no doubt more their too).
Lamela through balls: "because he tries more often" - Thank fuck Kane shoots more often!
"When has Lamela crossed"
Hhhmmm, let me think......
After his first season with us, I thought what another waste of money he was.
However, Lamela has grown into a real exponent of Poch's style of football. Presses hard, plays with edge, exquisite skill with good end product (rather than showboating) and technically very good.
How folk don't see what an important player he can be for us is quite incredible. If he's broken, then we won't be able to give him away. If he's capable of being fixed, then he knows the system the manager plays & is more than able to operate in it. Quite who we would buy as a ready made replacement, nobody seems able to answer.
No mate I can't, I get them off a stat site and I am fucked if I'm going trawl through game by game corner by corner, bollocks to that.
Who gives a flying fuck if it's a cross from the right apart from you?
Carry on and ignore the facts about his creativity, facts are he is one of our most creative players, which also makes him one of the Leagues most creative players. I couldn't give a fuck if he cost £5m or £45m. I just look at what a player contributes.
I put a whole host of stats together for Lamela last time someone said "what does he actually do" because he wasn't scoring rabona goals every other game.
I'll see if i can dig them out.
EDIT: Here we go (correct as of Feb this year):
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Tweets? There was a very long period where we didnt hear anything from him. Where is the, Im missing the players,club, playing for Spurs Tweets. You may get the odd one just out of obligation . He would never Tweet, Im pissed off.
First I meant summer last and yes he put in a shift all seaon 15/16. We dont know whats going on this season, other than , he has gone missing. Whether its family, injury, dog or just fed up, who knows. I feel he will be gone in the summer, hope Im wrong, its just my opinion.
For balance, we are performing better this season without him. Whether we could have reach an even higher level with him, we will never know.