Pointless stat. It's been 4 games and in that 9 year period I'd hazard a guess our first 4 games didn't always include games of the difficulty level of Saudi Sportswashing Machine away and the Goons at home in them....
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stratnumberone
Bobby Zamora
Personally I fail to see any positives in that whatsoever.
They were missing key players and coming to our place. We failed to create anything of note after about the first twenty minutes. We conceded our standard cheap, set piece goal (but it’s OK because the manager says he doesn’t care about that) to a defender that didn’t appear to have to move or jump to win the ball. We spent the entire 90 minutes passing sideways and backwards waiting for… I do not know what we were waiting for. On those occasions that we did move the ball forward and wide, we had a procession of ‘wingers’ that scuffed meaningless crosses straight into touch/to the GK/into the first defender/over the top of everyone.
In short, that was an absolutely pathetic performance.
They were missing key players and coming to our place. We failed to create anything of note after about the first twenty minutes. We conceded our standard cheap, set piece goal (but it’s OK because the manager says he doesn’t care about that) to a defender that didn’t appear to have to move or jump to win the ball. We spent the entire 90 minutes passing sideways and backwards waiting for… I do not know what we were waiting for. On those occasions that we did move the ball forward and wide, we had a procession of ‘wingers’ that scuffed meaningless crosses straight into touch/to the GK/into the first defender/over the top of everyone.
In short, that was an absolutely pathetic performance.
This is why the elephant in the room is Son. It's all well and good saying he's the best finisher at the club, but how many chances has he or others created for himself to finish? He has lost his edge, and doesn't contribute enough to the attacking play unless an opportunity for him to score.
Hes not a winger in this system, and he's really not particularly good as a striker with his attributes - unless we are lucky enough to be playing Everton at home every week....
Crosses are put into an area for a player to attack, they don't cross aiming at a static player.
DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
If I'm counting right, that brings us back to Poch's first season. It all kicked off for him around the tenth game (I think the Harry free kick against Villa?).
Maybe it all kicks off for Postecoglou in his 50th game, i.e, by October. You have to account for the disparity in quality - Poch was, and is, a far, far, far superior coach than Postecoglou is, so could accomplish more in less time.
But, truth be told, it's not about Postecoglou. He's a mediocre journeyman doing a roughly average job with what he has.
It's what he has that is the problem. Take off Johnson, bring on Odobert. Take off Maddison, bring on Timo Werner.
Games are simply not won with that level of quality. And it will not change as long as we are run the way we are.
fernadez
Dean Austin
I think starting with Odobert and Bergvall would have significantly increased our attacking threat personally, however I do understand your point.
thfcsteff
George Hunt
I think this is absolutely fair!
Mrs Vert
Pascal Chimbonda
Bergs need to come on. There is nowhere he is worse than what as happening. At least he would have run at them
Mrs Vert
Pascal Chimbonda
And Johnson comes on as a sub...
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Chrissivad
Dean Austin
He has movement, wants the ball and wants to always play the ball forward if he can.
He needs to be starting the next game along with a few other youngsters
Bishop
John Lacy
Great crossers of the ball cross into the space where the player will run to not just tona specific area and hope that a player will be there. Beckham crossed to the man not an area, Figo crossed to the man again not to some specific space.
They didn't, they crossed to an area and the player ran into it.
Legohamster
Ian Walker
Solanke looks pretty meh as well
Chrissivad
Dean Austin
Yeah, but they crossed it into areas they knew players would be attacking.
We cross it into areas, but it doesn't look like anyone is going to attack that area.
I can only think of the cut back to Kulusevski that worked.
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
And we were told “it’s too early not to be positive about the signing of werner”. Me and you keep saying over and over that we need better quality signings.
Mikey10
Jimmy Neighbour
Or as easy as a really terrible Everton at home and relegation favourites Leicester away.
Starting the youngsters is the only thing I can get on board with at the minute tbh. I haven’t enjoyed watching how we play since late last Autumn.
I thought he did okay, certainly first half (bar the inability to get a shot away when he had a HUGE amount of time). But I didn’t understand the signing. One good PL season at the age of 27 doesn’t seem to fit with the stat-based signing policy we now apparently pursue.
The quality of the crossing was poor. Maddison put in one good cross and that was it, the rest were floated, straight to the keeper, out of play or hit the first defender.
Videos have been put up of crossing training were they are told to hit into a certain area so the forwards should know where to attack.
Glenda's Legs
Paul Walsh
Don’t know why we kept playing in high crosses.