Ratings vs Sheriff

[Spurs1960]

Lennons stats

Lamela also was in plenty of good positions and team mates chose different options.
Lamela tried a nice one two with Defore, defoe chose to play the ball out left.
Lennons record for us in goals in rubbish. 1 in 10 consistently in his time at spurs.
Not good enough not matter how you cut it.
If lamela scores 4 or 5 a season he will be gone, the same should apply for all our AM.
We are moving forward, the old guard will be fazed out and new generation moving in.
Get use to it.

So goals are the only thing that matters, not the way to judge a player, especially a winger whose role it is is to put it into a dangerous area, for which there are no stats that I know of.

 

[Coyboy]

It's not watertight though.

Lennon should be doing much more than a 21yo having his 3rd or 4th start for us. This is where we have a slack ratio discrepancy IMO. Scientifically, especially having checked the stats, Lennon and Lamela saw almost identical ball per minute, but shouldn't Lennon, 5 years his senior, with 328 appearance to Lamela's 8 be doing a bit more ? This and the fact that in 7/8 years Lennon productivity and performances have too often been like this explain the very slightly contempt bread of familiarity comments.

Chadli, for the record, saw much more ball per minute. So his/lennon "OK/bad" is justified I reckon, taking into account the same factors as with Lamela.

And it's not like I said Lennon was Bad but Lamella was great is it. Bad and barely OK are but a scale apart on the footballing richter scale.

It was Lennon's first start in two months. He should be doing better but these games are never easy. He did ok no better no worse.

It really isn't that relevant how many touches they made. But I'm not surprised that Chadli made more pro rata. By the time he came on Sheriff had run out of steam somewhat and we were controlling the game.

If someone touches the ball 5 times but just passes it backwards that is no more useful than getting into goal scoring positions, pressing opposition players and stretching the game.