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Player Watch: Erik Lamela

Ghost Hardware

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We need to give him a new contract. He will get better the more he plays, he has missed a year and probably won't really show what he's got till next season... That's not to say he hasn't be good, because he has, but he will get better.
 

jezz

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Great game for Coco.
Only him and Eriksen touched the ball for the first goal.
Great work by Moura harassing the winger, Coco wins the ball in our half passes to Eriksen, Eriksen slips it back to Coco who in turn passes it to Eriksen who unleashes a worldie.
I'm a little pissed with Llorente for not trying harder after some great work from Coco and Son to set him up.
 

scat1620

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Well played today, deserves praise
Thought that was comfortably his best game for us since his return from that long injury. You always know you'll get a hard-working defensive shift from Lamela at worst, but he looked like he'd rediscovered his attacking threat today and was a menace throughout.
 

Lemon

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Great game for Coco.
Only him and Eriksen touched the ball for the first goal.
Great work by Moura harassing the winger, Coco wins the ball in our half passes to Eriksen, Eriksen slips it back to Coco who in turn passes it to Eriksen who unleashes a worldie.
I'm a little pissed with Llorente for not trying harder after some great work from Coco and Son to set him up.

Agree, but you also missed Lamela's driving run after passing to Eriksen, which forced the defender back who would otherwise have been free to block.

It was a thing of beauty to me that, the epitome of Coco.
 

Streetspur77

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Thought that was comfortably his best game for us since his return from that long injury. You always know you'll get a hard-working defensive shift from Lamela at worst, but he looked like he'd rediscovered his attacking threat today and was a menace throughout.

Yeah I don't think he's been that good since the injury and feel he's got a lot of undue praise just because people like him as a person but no doubt today he was a threat
 

Derp

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Yeah I don't think he's been that good since the injury and feel he's got a lot of undue praise just because people like him as a person but no doubt today he was a threat

I agree with this. I thought he was great today, definitely his best game this season. Much more involved and made good decisions today. Combined really well with Eriksen and scored with his right! Great game from Lamela!
 

Vincent30

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As i've said a few times now, we need to somehow incorporate Lamela centrally behind the striker in this team with Eriksen deeper, these two link up beautifully and are so creative. Lamela would be devastating in this role, he finds great spaces between the lines and links everything so well with one touch passes and great movement / footwork.

The concern is, the above scenario will only really ever happen with Dele losing his place and this isn't going to happen.

Anyway, great to see Eriksen become that consistent quality player we all want and Lamela coming back to full fitness is great for the team. These two should be our creative nucleus.

RE: Lamela, those of you who say you'd sell him and don't really rate him or understand what he brings, really really don't understand football, he is clearly one of our most skillful players and he out of everyone in the team, including Kane, Verts etc, will always put in 100% if we are playing Newport or Juventus. Really hope the hip injury is behind him, could have a great 2/3 years coming up for Spurs.
 

Streetspur77

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No, he's been getting praise because he's actually been playing well.

Read this post with 10 agrees and 9 likes and tell me again that Lamela hasn't received undue praise... some feel the need to balance the ****s who won't give Lamela praise for anything by going ridiculously, at times embarassingly, over the top

Lamela is like Modric, only an AM as opposed to a CM. He doesn't get the statistics others do- Luka never did either- yet he is such a vital player for us when he's out there. He is just so relentless, such a warrior, so hateable- which is why I love him. He engenders a level of antipathy from opposing fans (and opposing players) that borders on the psychotic. He gets under the opposition's skin like no one else I've ever seen that plays for us. He rattles them. I mean, here's this pretty boy- one who can do all sorts of fancy-Dan tricks- flying into tackles, pressing like he's a magnet and the other team's players are made of metal, and just generally being this unpredictable, dangerous nuisance of a player.

When you add to that the fact that he might be the best passer on the team (or if he's not, he's second only to Eriksen), that he's incredibly unpredictable offensively (one never knows if he's going to bomb forward, or hit the breaks and thread a through ball, or stop on a dime and turn and move- forcing a foul, or pass diagonally to someone cutting in, or play keep ball followed by a 1-2 with Kane, Alli, Eriksen, etc.)-- I mean the guy is just a straight up fucking terror.

He never shirks from a challenge, never backs down, never plays scared. As a matter of fact, sometimes I feel as if he has an extra gear that others don't; indeed, occasionally it seems as if he's taunting the opposing player because he knows he's so much more talented than they are...

I just don't get how you can watch Lamela play and not love him. He looks so soft and yet he's so fucking hard. The guy has no fear. I'll say it again: the guy's a straight-up warrior. I would be distraught if he left us, particularly because his best years lie straight ahead.

Players like him- guys dripping with natural talent yet who have that much fight/ferocity/desire to get stuck-in- are truly rare. We have one. We would be stupid to let him go.
 

Gassin's finest

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Read this post with 10 agrees and 9 likes and tell me again that Lamela hasn't received undue praise... some feel the need to balance the ****s who won't give Lamela praise for anything by going ridiculously, at times embarassingly, over the top
I'm not interested in likes, agrees, and any other life gamification affectations, and I don't know why anyone is. I see what I see with my eyes and call it that way. Lamela has been playing well since he returned and deserves his plaudits.
 

Streetspur77

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I'm not interested in likes, agrees, and any other life gamification affectations, and I don't know why anyone is. I see what I see with my eyes and call it that way. Lamela has been playing well since he returned and deserves his plaudits.

What an odd reply...

No need for a rant on the rating system I was literally just adding that it had 10 agrees to show the scary fact that it's widely believed that Lamela is like modric and "has an extra gear others don't", not because I believe that makes it a superior post or anything. But convenient that that allowed you to just ignore the rest of my post.

Now either you agree with them that Lamela is comparable to modric and then we'll probably never see eye to eye on this as you're deluded, or you don't think that and therefore we agree that Lamela gets over the top praise and this whole conversation will have been pointless.
 
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BringBack_leGin

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When Lamela has no time to think or no options but one, his execution is brilliant. When he has time he can be a bit indecisive, losing great opportunities as a result. He’s still bloody brilliantly and makes up for it in other ways, but if he could apply his ruthlessness from instinctive situations to when he has time to think he would be some player. Van der Vaart had so much less going for him physically, he was shorter, slower and weaker, but he had great technique and a greater, quicker brain. Lamela with that brain would be terrifying. He’d go from being a (much better) Malbranque to being a Ginola.
 

Clark28

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Around the 50th minute a Swansea player passed back to the GK, Erik saw that their LB was open near the touchline, so he started sprinting over to close him down in case he received the ball.

Poch Press.
 

ralvy

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Jun 26, 2012
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What an odd reply...

No need for a rant on the rating system I was literally just adding that it had 10 agrees to show the scary fact that it's widely believed that Lamela is like modric and "has an extra gear others don't", not because I believe that makes it a superior post or anything. But convenient that that allowed you to just ignore the rest of my post.

Now either you agree with them that Lamela is comparable to modric and then we'll probably never see eye to eye on this as you're deluded, or you don't think that and therefore we agree that Lamela gets over the top praise and this whole conversation will have been pointless.

Oh please! You have been repeating for a while now how Lamela is about to find himself being fifth option behind Lucas... some nerve you have to call other posters delusional.
 

Archibald-CPH

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As i've said a few times now, we need to somehow incorporate Lamela centrally behind the striker in this team with Eriksen deeper, these two link up beautifully and are so creative. Lamela would be devastating in this role, he finds great spaces between the lines and links everything so well with one touch passes and great movement / footwork.

The concern is, the above scenario will only really ever happen with Dele losing his place and this isn't going to happen.

Anyway, great to see Eriksen become that consistent quality player we all want and Lamela coming back to full fitness is great for the team. These two should be our creative nucleus.

RE: Lamela, those of you who say you'd sell him and don't really rate him or understand what he brings, really really don't understand football, he is clearly one of our most skillful players and he out of everyone in the team, including Kane, Verts etc, will always put in 100% if we are playing Newport or Juventus. Really hope the hip injury is behind him, could have a great 2/3 years coming up for Spurs.

THIS!!!!!!!!!
 

The Apprentice

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Mar 10, 2005
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That 10 role suits him centrally. Makes him less easy to telegraph by the opposition as can go both ways.

Would be gutted if we let him go. We have so few lock-pickers and they are bloody hard to find. Especially ones that buy in to Poch’s workrate.

I don’t buy into whether players are first XI or not. We have a squad of interchangeable attacking options that should get varied depending on the opposition. Some games he suits, some games he doesn’t. It’s only Kane and Eriksen who should be nailed on starters regardless.
 
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