I guess it all depends what you’re rewarding with your vote. If you’re going for consistent high level throughout, easily Toby, probably followed by either Dier or Højbjerg, but if you award it for the difference maker, clearing one of the line and making the other with a very impressive header did just that.I'm assuming by Tony you meant Toby? If so, I thought he gobbled up almost everything in the air last night. For me he was easily man of the match. Dier had a very good game too. I can't believe Kane is winning the vote, but there you go, it's all subjective
Who the hell are Peter and Pamela.
Dier won 5/11, Toby won 4/10.Yeah I don’t really recall either Toby or dier winning much in the air, but both were superb along with Peter in defence against a horrible Burnley.
genuinly thought we looked out of ideas going forward until Pamela came on
Not by me! I though our defence was brilliant.Dier won 5/11, Toby won 4/10.
Doherty won 7/8 and is being slaughtered.
Davies and Doherty (going off whoscored) were dribbled past one each. Doherty won 7/8 aerial duels, Davies 3/5. Only Tarkowski from Burnley won more than Davies with 5/7, for some context. This against a side who’s entire game plan relies on dominance in the air. Then on passes, only the centre backs and Højbjerg attempted more than them with Davies achieving 78% most likely due to him putting in more crosses while Doherty was a good 84%, our overall average.
In a game where our main weakness so far this season happens to complement the opposition’s main strength, both players did their jobs well and deserve far more credit than they’re getting, particularly Doherty who apart from being beaten once performed highly on every metric. Like Mourinho said afterwards, he could have had Reguilón on to be more attacking, but then we might have lost something physically and rather than score more, we’d have been more likely to concede. I can almost guarantee that if Davies loses 2/5 aerial duals, Reguilón is losing all 5.
Given that Doherty was guilty of one instance of losing possession, I think it’s fair to assume he wasn’t heading straight to their players in those 8 headers.I just don't like these kind of stats. What is it worth to win the aerial duel if you head it straight to their player? Then I rather lose the duel but make sure the opponent can not do anything productive with his won battle because he was troubled enough by the defender.
I agree on the physically side. It was a clear match plan by Jose and defensively it worked out pretty well overall.
Given that Doherty was guilty of one instance of losing possession, I think it’s fair to assume he wasn’t heading straight to their players in those 8 headers.
Given that Doherty was guilty of one instance of losing possession, I think it’s fair to assume he wasn’t heading straight to their players in those 8 headers.
8, to be exact. But that also includes balls out of play etc no?When you say loosing possession is that tackled?
He had more than 1 pass that didn't make it to one of our playedd
8, to be exact. But that also includes balls out of play etc no?
It’s almost a bit weird that we seem to be playing more attacking vs sides who themselves are more attacking.Spurs app has it a few more, but most were crosses. Something we didn't do well on either side.
Thought he was ok today.
We looked more solid with the fullback not pushing up as high and Sissoko and Hojbjerg sitting Infront.