• Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara

Dominic Solanke

Bedfordspurs said:
We saw hold up play form him I haven’t seen since berbatov
His pressing is brilliant too
The rest will click with service
Click to expand...

I agree except wouldn’t go ad overboard over hold up play, would just say that he’s good at it. I’d say that he needs to find the connections in attacking play which will come with time, as will his sharpness and match condition. Often takes players a few matches to get going. How many years did Kane fail to score in his first few matches of the season?!
 
Bishop said:
You saw better holdup play from him on Saturday than you saw from Kane in 8 years?

Are you sure about that? I mean be positive but that's hyperbole.
Click to expand...
Kane wasn’t great at gold up imo
He lost a lot of headers
He was a master of winning free kicks by falling from them
He regularly got owned by the CBs we played on Sunday
So yeah I did
Kanes class but holding the ball up I’ve seen Better
 
El Guepardo said:
I agree except wouldn’t go ad overboard over hold up play, would just say that he’s good at it. I’d say that he needs to find the connections in attacking play which will come with time, as will his sharpness and match condition. Often takes players a few matches to get going. How many years did Kane fail to score in his first few matches of the season?!
Click to expand...
Lots
And I agree
He has had about 5 days I think with the team in training
That’s gonna need time, rhythm and luck
Be nice to see us pass to him quicker too
 
The looping header was excellent improvisation, nearly a goal out of nothing, and very unlucky.

Hopefully he just gets a bit quicker at getting a shot off.
 
I would like to have seen him be a bit nastier yesterday. Be a pain in the arse. Disrupt the CBs. If Richy had been fit I guarantee he'd have made life very uncomfortable for them by just being a pest.
 
Good overall performance, but against one of the best defensive setups around and them sitting back quite a lot his service was obviously limited.

My impression is still the same. Looks a very well rounded player, time will tell if he can replicate his scoring form from last season. That will probably also depend on the chances we can create for him.
 
thfcsteff said:
I would like to have seen him be a bit nastier yesterday. Be a pain in the arse. Disrupt the CBs. If Richy had been fit I guarantee he'd have made life very uncomfortable for them by just being a pest.
Click to expand...
Someone on a pod claimed their Goon friends thought Solanke gave the CBs a hard game and was fairly impressive. I can't really remember that tbh. The whole display just felt a bit second-gear for a derby.
 
its also got to be said that coming in for your second start and first at home against the goon squad is quite a lot of pressure. He may need a bit of time to settle down, as opposed to settle in.
 
Surfless said:
its also got to be said that coming in for your second start and first at home against the goon squad is quite a lot of pressure. He may need a bit of time to settle down, as opposed to settle in.
Click to expand...
Perhaps both settle in and settle down.

In addition to the pressure they're one of the best defensive teams around.

I thought he did well. Add a goal to that performance and it would have been great.
 
Bullet said:
Someone on a pod claimed their Goon friends thought Solanke gave the CBs a hard game and was fairly impressive. I can't really remember that tbh. The whole display just felt a bit second-gear for a derby.
Click to expand...

I thought this too. A bit of frustration on their part i think led to Saliba's booking IIRC
 
afsoc4life said:
We are still not feeding him enough. Delighted for his first goal. Appreciate that he works his arse off and does his best to hold the ball up.
Click to expand...
Agreed. There were a number of times when, if we’d given him the ball like we would have Kane, he would have had a great chance of scoring. Deki, for one, chose to shoot at one point when Solanke was free a few yards out. We definitely need to learn to play to his strengths in the box.
 
His pressing helps gain back possession and forces mistakes, and his hold up play helps prevent us from coughing up the ball like Son used to when up front last season... both aspects helped us overall.

Just need to try and feed him better balls on certain occasions now and I think he could really settle in well.
 
Really pleased he's got the first goal out the way.

He does press well and his hold his hold up play is a lot better than I initially thought.
 
He's got a fantastic first touch and considerable upper body strengths. I think with time the connections will form.

One thing I dislike is that he gives up too easily on crosses. Gary Lineker scored loads at the far post by just throwing himself into the general direction of a cross hoping for a touch. Solanke sees a difficult cross and gives up in his head early
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back