Blake Griffin
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naughty bear!
Anyone else think Sandro is better than Parker?
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Spurs_Bear
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I don't know where I get that nickname from.....
DiamondLites
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Sandro's timing in the tackle is excellent, Parker gives away too many free kicks in very dangerous areas with wreckless tackles
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Sandro is a player who impresses me, but he has given awaay a fair number of free-kicks, himself.
Parker's taclking has been astounding this season, something we have lacked since whenever...to play at that intensity, for prolonged periods,I think we can accept the odd mistimed tackle - hell, even the Modric-Pony mistimed a tackle on Sunday and gave a free-kick away.
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Yes, but I feel Sandro is more measured in the tackle where as Parker is blood and thunder. With games under his belt Sandro's timing will improve which is scary for any opposing CMs
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Which is fine, and I would probably agree with you - but Sandoro was, and probably is, a little bit raw.
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Sandro has the potential to be, and probably will be better than Parker. But if we had to win one game and you had to put your mortage on it.........Parker would be on my teamsheet ahead of Sandro at the moment.
Great to have them both though and hopefully next season will see Sandro realise his potential and get far more games. He is a beast.
Great to have them both though and hopefully next season will see Sandro realise his potential and get far more games. He is a beast.
There is some wonderfully cherry picked examples.... Well here are six examples where by and large, we were gash, and we picked up 2 pts, in 6 games.
QPR away
Sunderland away
Everton away for firs t half
Arsenal away second half
Swansea away
Chelsea home
It just doesn't come naturally to Modric in the box at all, and it's not just his weak shot. He gets the the byline and rarely produces, he rarely pulls off a killer pass around the box, although that's probably as much to do with the completely lacklusture movement up top. His best games have all been with him running the show from the middle of the park. Getting on it, keeping it in tight situations, nicking it with intercaeptions,, and then finding others in space to do the damage.
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TBF in the games BC mentioned we played with three cm's on paper and in practice. In at least a few of those above (if memory serves me) we played with three cm's yes, but Sandro was deployed in a more RM/RW role which was obviously so VDV didn't have to do much donkey work but did not work at all.
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QPR and Sunderland we dominated the ball, you said we don't if Modric isn't in the cm. Everton away we played 442, up against a 5 man midfield. Arsenal was just a disaster, and I included that in my example as well. Swansea away we were winning until Redknapp changed to 442. In the first half we had 49% of the ball, second half (half of which was spent with 442) we had 39%. I would venture that 49% is as good as any team have at Swansea ? And Chelsea home was the same story, at 433 we had 59.6% of the ball. Second half 442 we have 48%.
I accept that regardless of the formation, we will not do well if we don't do basic things right like work and press. And Arsenal was a case in point, they were just much better than us regardless of what we did.
But I fundamentally disagree about the efficacy of Modric when he has the freedom to get forward and play in the opposition's 3rd instead of spending all his time fetching and carrying in ours, where defensively he can be a liability. You think of the chance he created in the opening minute against Blackburn (it was the best chance anyone created all game) , or the chances he created at Chelsea (VDV's from inside the box, and Adebayor's through ball) as examples of what he can craft out when he gets into the box or plays further forward.
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When he has a run the team he is top, top class. The way he makes up the ground and closes space so quickly is very rare.
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I thought Sandro was superb tonight (saw most, but not all of the game). He won so many headers at the edge of and in our box, the usual undoing of Spurs at Bolton.
Now he's getting some matches under his belt he's no longer getting booked in the first quarter of a match with mistimed tackles. This let's him impose himself and boss the other team all through the match without having to worry about another yellow.
His tackling in the last couple of games have been superb (I think he wont 9 out of 10 against Blackburn) so it looks like match fitness makes a massive difference to his game.
I loved that he picked up Davies on corners and did a fantastic job defending them, especially when they had three in a row. Shows he's really up for a battle. His height and strength is a huge bonus against physical teams over Parker.
His tackling in the last couple of games have been superb (I think he wont 9 out of 10 against Blackburn) so it looks like match fitness makes a massive difference to his game.
I loved that he picked up Davies on corners and did a fantastic job defending them, especially when they had three in a row. Shows he's really up for a battle. His height and strength is a huge bonus against physical teams over Parker.
