It's going to be very hard to get a top quality striker in January. We need a big money striker in the summer
As much as anything it's the tactics that are the problem atm. While of course individual personnel can always be improved on.
The build up is too slow and too much about control of the ball. It worked results wise at the start of the season but our performances and metrics like XG were showing that our points exceeded those performances and now things are balancing out.
Raya is apparently an excellent passer of the ball, it's time to let him show that rather than simply being used to pass patiently around the defense - lets see if he can start a fast counter with a through ball.
We have Saka, Odegaarde and Martinelli with Jesus able to play them in. These guys can all score but they're rarely going to if we keep allowing the opposition time to get back into position and pack the defense.
You can't rely on Partey for sheet and Jorginho, as experienced as he is, isn't someone you can rely on regularly. He's not super physical either. Add to that Elneny and you're left with pretty much just Rice.
So in the absence of a striker (the kind we'd really love to see), we probably should strengthen in other areas and the ever-absent Saka understudy is one alongside someone like Onana. So I'm not mad at this move under the circumstances.
Our performances have been good. We should have beaten both West Ham and Liverpool by a wide margin if we had someone who can score the consequential goals (1st goal or a goal when behind) regularly.
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Turned the corner, maybe not
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posted on 8/1/24
It's going to be very hard to get a top quality striker in January. We need a big money striker in the summer
posted on 9/1/24
As much as anything it's the tactics that are the problem atm. While of course individual personnel can always be improved on.
The build up is too slow and too much about control of the ball. It worked results wise at the start of the season but our performances and metrics like XG were showing that our points exceeded those performances and now things are balancing out.
Raya is apparently an excellent passer of the ball, it's time to let him show that rather than simply being used to pass patiently around the defense - lets see if he can start a fast counter with a through ball.
We have Saka, Odegaarde and Martinelli with Jesus able to play them in. These guys can all score but they're rarely going to if we keep allowing the opposition time to get back into position and pack the defense.
posted on 9/1/24
You can't rely on Partey for sheet and Jorginho, as experienced as he is, isn't someone you can rely on regularly. He's not super physical either. Add to that Elneny and you're left with pretty much just Rice.
So in the absence of a striker (the kind we'd really love to see), we probably should strengthen in other areas and the ever-absent Saka understudy is one alongside someone like Onana. So I'm not mad at this move under the circumstances.
posted on 10/1/24
Our performances have been good. We should have beaten both West Ham and Liverpool by a wide margin if we had someone who can score the consequential goals (1st goal or a goal when behind) regularly.
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