yeah beckham was shite too.
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It is the worst stat in football, ranked over by fan boys. A miss hit shot can be counted as an assist!
a miss hit shot can be a goal.
Each to their own mate. Interesting that you quote Ozil, have you seen this waste of skin play, are you familiar that the general football public think he isn't that good? They have come to this conclusion by watching his contribution to the game, those that bail him out every week are those that just quote the number of his assists. Assists are a shite stat.
There are plenty of good/great wide players that can't beat a man with pace Waddle wasn't the fastest but had the skill, Beckham, Sigurdsson, etc
"lay the ball off to (play short) to another player," come on surely even you could do that?
But if it creates a goal surely even that's better than the ball ending in row z?
Lets agree to disagree mate i love both players but i just think Trippier gives us more technically and assists wise but obviously Walker has more pace which helps going forward and in defence.
I would keep both if we could and rotate, why break something that works.
no they are a reasonable measure of a players ability to create. Ozil is very creative, just lacks the mentality to perform consistently at that level, but there's no doubting his technical ability. the ball doesn't bounce off his arse 15-20 times a season into the path of an onrushing forward.
just applying your own logic mate.
assist irrelevant because they can be accidental
goals irrelevant too for the same reason ?
To lay the ball off, play it short is the whole point I am making mate! It is a far more dangerous to our build up. It is not whipping the ball into the box that 75% of the time results to absolutely nothing! This is exactly the point I am making, it creates more opportunities and Walker, Rose and Davies all do this because they do it.
People are acting like he won't improve further under Poch if/when he becomes first choice, which he has earned of Walker leaves and Poch will give him a chance.
so you cant have it both ways. you can try, but largely people will think you're a dick.
i don't btw.
whether or not you rate him overall is irrelevant - thats your opinion and you're fully entitled.
however to say his crossing is a low percentage lacks perspective. it may be a low percentage in the strict term that 25 is the lower end of 100, but its a high percentile, which is infinitely more important.
if assist stats are meaningless then by proxy assists are meaningless which is actually idiotic.
But when a player is creating more and better opportunities because they play lower percentage passes this is better for the team, more dangerous, than playing a high percentage pass, that usually comes to nothing. So, the perspective is relevant when comparing the output of the FB's, who are capable of creating better opportunities against someone who can only creates low percentage opportunities.
i get what you're saying, that what it comes down to is maximizing the possibility of scoring - what i am saying is what if tripps crossing IS maximizing it?
the only way we can disect that is by looking at the stats. he has more assist per pass/cross/minute than any other play, so i say let him cross it if he thinks its on.