Against Chelsea on Saturday
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Emmanuel Adebayor - Officially gone \o/
- Thread starter jimmyb
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Against Chelsea on Saturday
metalgear
Luka Modric
from another view, chelsea chose to focus on shutting out dempsey on the left, but allowed defoe to try his luck.
Think about it - (1) shut down a proven goal scoring midfielder; while (2) allowing our top scorer to go out wide to try and play provider.
definitely not brilliant coaching - its textbook stuff.
DHSF
Les Ferdinand
Pienaar was much better than what Sig and Dempsey have shown thus far. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
Defoe wasn't trying to play provider though. Cutting inside and shooting is not playing provider in any way shape or form.
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
Yes, not an easy situation, thus hence why he needs to shape up and we have to hope it can happen...
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
Dempsey was never a wide-left player, thus he kept on coming inside to the traffic. Much better when we switched around second-half...
metalgear
Luka Modric
erm... that's my point ... forced out wide to with one man marking, defoe is pretty much useless. right where chelsea wanted him and what they wanted him to do. take pot shots and lose possession.
I used to think that myself but a recent stat showed he started more than 20 games as an AML last season
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
Indeed, he played off the left I know that, but he was never a classic wide-left 'winger'-type, he always came inside from the left every time I saw him, THUS my point (that was for raboner who saw my over-enthusiastic use of two words which don't necessarily belong together but sound bloody excellent in a Brian Blessed sort of way)...
Steed Train
Clive Wilson
Was told by a mate of mine who is a footballer and knows a few PL players that apparently there is truth in the Adebayor rumours. He's been playing up in training and been told he won't be sold which has got his back up even more
Pirate55
The Last Man Standing 17/18
I think his body language, poor cameos and lack of smile this season all seem to confirm this. I suspect his "injuries" may not be all that they are made out to be either.
His performance at home to Liverpool (and to a lesser extent Saudi Sportswashing Machine) last season were amongst the finest examples of leading a line I have seen in person. He now needs to extract a digit and get down to letting his football do the talking. The player is undoubtedly talented but someone needs to get his head in order.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Any specific examples of this? Would you be saying the same if not for the media reports?
I think he's looked happy when he's come on so far. Pretty much like last season, energy, running, wanting the ball and always a big grin ready.
NaijaSpurs
Les Ferdinand
So nothing more than rumour and hearsay, now if this was a Sun journalist on the other hand.................
The Moonlit Knight
Banned
Considering how poor Adebayor has been for us in 2012, I am not really sure he is in any position to sulk. We had a terrible run of results earlier this year, and a lot of those results we missed out on wins or draws by the narrowist of margins. And during that run of results so many good attacks broke down through Adebayor (not to mention some of the sitters he missed) allowing the opposition to get behind the ball. For a big man his hold up ability is very poor, I'd say even Defoe is better than holding the ball up than Adebayor.
It's strange that Adebayor has started his career off superbly wherever he seems to go but then tails off after a few months. I hope that Villa Boas can shake that out of him and we can have the Adebayor of 2011 back up top for us. We surely do need him.
It's strange that Adebayor has started his career off superbly wherever he seems to go but then tails off after a few months. I hope that Villa Boas can shake that out of him and we can have the Adebayor of 2011 back up top for us. We surely do need him.
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
...no he really hasn't because he, err, is not happy. It's a shame. Here's hoping he sorts it out. We need a mentally-healthy Ade...
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
A good point, but again, I felt he suffered from being over-played. There was a stretch in early March when he was clearly plying through injury and I wonder if ever got the time to simply rest it off.
jts1882
Dean Richards
There was a period in early March when the whole teams would have been sent to the glue factory if it was polo.
Is Adebayor happy that he is suffering from minor injuries and not starting? I hope not. I want him trying to get fit and rearing to go when he comes on.
The reality is that he wasn't with us in pre-season, he wasn't with us to start the season, and he hasn't been fully fit in most, if not all, the games since then. This makes his not staring less of a mystery. Now there have been a couple of games where he could have started, but that would mean dropping an in-form player for a semi-fit player. Not a great message if trying to send the message that anyone can play if they show form.
Is Adebayor happy that he is suffering from minor injuries and not starting? I hope not. I want him trying to get fit and rearing to go when he comes on.
The reality is that he wasn't with us in pre-season, he wasn't with us to start the season, and he hasn't been fully fit in most, if not all, the games since then. This makes his not staring less of a mystery. Now there have been a couple of games where he could have started, but that would mean dropping an in-form player for a semi-fit player. Not a great message if trying to send the message that anyone can play if they show form.