It's getting almost as bad as Hart's inability to save anything that goes low to his left. Hugo has a huge issue here and I feel like more teams are noticing it.I can't find it now, but I definitely read a study of Lloris, and his positioning and weakness to shots across him from exactly where Rondon scored from is real and consistent over years, which is frustrating
...Davies is slow, has poor positioning, doesn't track runners, and offers nothing going forward...and some think he's preferable to Rose...
...lol...
COYS
One thing those stats doesn't consider is how opponent teams last season had to be aware of and couldn't cope with the threat from Walker and Rose's explosive pace, they had to defend with that in mind leaving much more space for the rest of our players in the middle. We're much easier to defend against now. We go slower, have little to threat behind defences and not much width, giving our opponents an easy task of making it tight in the middle outside of their box
The Davies that has already equaled Rose's goals and assists tally for last season, in less than half the time ? And Trippier pisses all over Walker offensively, which is what matters most the way play and the amount of bus parkers we face.
I don't think Davies was good yesterday, and I do think that defensively Rose (and Walker) are better, but I love the way Rose has suddenly become Marcelo to Spurs fans.
Rose's creative output has been fucking meagre for spurs. In 800 minutes of football this season, Davies has almost equaled the amount of chances Rose has created in 2100 and and 1530 minutes the previous two seasons. The same goes for key passes, goals and assists.
Offensively this season Davies has been better than Rose has been over the last two season, making more chances, more key passes, more assists:
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Davies performance yesterday was no better or worse than many of Rose's over the last few years. Trippier's was a good deal better than many of Walker's performances against bus parkers. You remember the Walker who refused to cross it first time because he didn't trust his technique? Rarely ever used his speed to take on a FB and get past him?
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Even playing for one of the best attacking teams this league has ever seen, with some of the best attacking players, in Guardiola's total football, Walker is still being out gunned by Trippier offensively, despite playing in a Spurs side where players like Kane, Eriksen and Alli are all out of sorts. And is still producing more than Walker did last year when we were the best team in the league bar one.
Yawn
Throw us some more stats BC
Stats are for the most part bollox. Just keeps some trainspotter in employment and gives the sports channels some drivel to churn out when they haven’t got any other meaningless bollox to talk about or put up on the screen
Dembele played a quality game and shut the mouth of all those fans saying he's done. That's why I give him MotM.
He threatened to excite. Hard times, we must look for the positives.How did he do that Ralvy ? He was on for the last 30 minutes of a game we were already thoroughly dominating, and he didn't really change the dynamics at all. He didn't create anything, he didn't make any killer passes or open them up with a clever dribble. He came on in a comfortable game and was OK. The fact that a kid with half a dozen PL games is getting starts ahead of him, including against teams like Madrid, says a lot.
That is the worrying thing about stats. When you compare Davies numbers it looks better than Rose's however when you look at the game in play there's not comparison who is the better wingback.
We have truly missed the Walker and Rose combo
How did he do that Ralvy ? He was on for the last 30 minutes of a game we were already thoroughly dominating, and he didn't really change the dynamics at all. He didn't create anything, he didn't make any killer passes or open them up with a clever dribble. He came on in a comfortable game and was OK. The fact that a kid with half a dozen PL games is getting starts ahead of him, including against teams like Madrid, says a lot.
He helped us control the ball better than what the Winks/Dier combo were doing (note that I'm not saying controling the ball more time... I'm not sure if we enjoyed more possesion with him on the field, but we certainly looked more poised and in command once Dembele got in) .
Dembele will rarely be the one making that crucial pass, he doesn't have a killer instinct for goal scoring opportunities I'm affraid, but he really is good at retaining posession without being forced to go backwards or sideways. He makes us a more dominant force than Winks ATM. Winks certainly is showing a lot of promise, but his skills set looks to be different than Dembele's.
If fitness allows it, I would be starting a combo of them two and leaving Dier on the bench (or as a CB while Toby is out). Once Victor is back, however, Pochetino will have a real dilema in his hands.
If I could, I'd give everyone 5/10
I can't find it now, but I definitely read a study of Lloris, and his positioning and weakness to shots across him from exactly where Rondon scored from is real and consistent over years, which is frustrating
I couldn't disagree more. Winks takes far more risks with his passing, still completes high percentage, moves it quicker and definitely passes forwards more than Dembele. I don't think Winks is as good without the ball as Dembele in his peak, but when Wanyama's fit I don't think it's even close anymore, Winks gets through more ball and moves it with more more tempo and progressively than Dembele, even at his best.