- Jul 7, 2012
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Of course criticism can be applied. But I think it's fairly telling that despite winning by a great margin, coming from behind away from home and taking many of our chances, supporters will still find the energy/need to criticise the team/players. Like it's a thesis or scientific paper where you need to state the limitations of your study.
I find that really strange. Players will have misplaced passes, lost possession, missed chances, tackles or saves when they 'should' have been made. But isn't that normal. Even when City or Barcelona or Bayern win 10-0, there will be missed chances, passes and some players who won't have scored 10/10 upon review. What is it that we want? When will we be happy?
Lamela was excellent. He was trying out stuff and being probably over adventurous when it came to dribbles, attempted passes and attacking play. But if you can't do it when you're 2 or 3 goals up with 20min to play, when are you going to have fun, express yourself on the pitch and try out stuff? I think Pochettino wants players to be brave. He wants them to try and take risks and make mistakes. He wants Skipp, KWP, Winks and Dele to go for it - sometimes they will make mistakes and as a team we will lose out. Will people criticising Lamela also criticise Kane for his missed chances?
Reading some of the posts (not aimed at you) on here reminds me of my childhood - if I scored 98% on a maths test, I'd get asked what I got wrong and why I didn't score 100%. This is a forum and it's fair for all of us to express our joy and frustration equally. But I feel like it's kinda missing the bigger picture. The "yesssss, we won and we won well" picture.
I'd be surprised if other teams' fora are full of as many critique posts when their teams have won by as big a margin (Arsenal and Wet Spam fans aside). But maybe I'm wrong. Am I?
Yes exactly the point, the performance is hardly worth scrutiny seeing as we had a clear advantage, he would have been encouraged to try new things whether that would be play more through balls or try and dribble past opponents, okay some of the stuff he did didn't come off but when better to do them where we're 3 goals up in a game we've already won?
I highly doubt that Poch was tearing his hair out having a go at Lamela, he always allows our players to be adventurous when they play and be brave as long as their disciplined in defence, not everything will come off but it's a huge part of Poch's philosophy that he encourages.
I've always said that Lamela is a high risk/reward player anyway so you'll get the moments where he seem frustrating where he's trying to probe and play constant through balls and he'll hold onto the ball long enough to release it to another player in space however his play wielded a goal and we didn't concede so his performance can be only seen as successful and positive.
Unfortunately it seems that there has to be a scapegoat on here sometimes that people look down upon, like there's always something or someone to moan at, it's honestly a weird mentality.