Wow those stats are amazing...
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bol-uk
Player Valuation: £50m
Eloquent!
There's hundreds of players in world football more suited to building a system around though. That's the problem - he's nowhere near good enough to accommodate; he should be accommodating others instead.
A luxury player. A footballer who flatters to deceive, then gains fans like Blue Toff who, unfortunately, are blinded by the odd bit of genius he produces.
Rudolf Hucker
Player Valuation: £30m
If our wingers had a 10 who can draw a defence & put a ball on a sixpence like the players those wingers play with, then I’m sure they’d be scoring goals.
Look, you rate Sigurdsson. That’s your right. I think we miss out on far more than we gain with him in the side.
All about opinions.
At times he can do more yes.
But there are a lot of players doing a lot less too
toffee-L
Player Valuation: £20m
Okay
This.
He's been crap lately, not offering enough.
But he can never win. Same old people have had it out for him from the start. It's boring. I honestly don't know what he needs to do. When he drops deep, he gets accused of not getting into scoring positions. When he stays high, he gets accused of not dropping deep to get involved.
He's our leading scorer and hasn't been playing well for about 6 weeks. Says more about the rest of our squad, surely...
Why isn't Gomes getting the same amount of stick? He has been far worse in the last few weeks. Bordered on being a liability on Saturday, tbh.
We've seen with both of them that on form they're very good players. At the moment nobody is on form. Just don't get why it's suddenly Gylfi's fault that everyone else is tosh.
The system isn't 'built around him' at all, not one bit. All of our play goes down the flanks. When we play through Gylfi, something usually happens...
We don't build our system around Gylfi.
In our last few league games, here's the 'attacking thirds' percentages.
S'ton
41% left, 22% centre, 37% right
B'mouth
37% left, 22% centre, 41% right
Leicester
33% left, 22% centre, 45% right
So the argument that the system is built around him is void.
You could easily just say the system is built around Gana/Gomes because all you're basing it on is that he's central in the formation, surely?
IF our system was built around him, everything would go through him. It doesn't, not nearly enough.
Now my argument is that that's down to Gylfi's poor form lately, him not doing enough when on the ball etc, getting marked out of games but also the players around him playing poorly - especially Gomes, whose job it is is to get the ball to him.
You can say, and to an extent I agree, that the system is being made to accommodate him. Maybe that's a fair assessment and maybe we should get away from that. But it's not built around him. As a team we are built around attacking down our flanks, as is quite clear from the stats and simply having eyes.
No way do we look to play through him, everything is down the wing.
There's a reason why the likes of Digne has made more crosses than any other player in the league.
There's a reason why the likes of Digne has made more crosses than any other player in the league.
My shock is that most of our attacks recently have come down the right. I'm gonna scroll back to our 'good' run and see what the attacking third %'s are. It's a good indication of how we attack as a team (obviously, it would help if any of our attacking players - Gylfi included - would make better runs off the ball).
davids
Player Valuation: £60m
Got a goal at the weekend,great for his stats,did nothing for us.
BernieH
Player Valuation: £35m
We go down the flanks all the time because Gylfi isn't good enough at 10, he scores goals, worldies mostly but we create absolutely nothing through the middle and when the wingers are doubled up on this is a massive problem.
There are good arguments both ways on Gylfi both sides have valid points. My point is, I seethe 10 as the main playmaker and creator in a team but we play with wingers and utilise the wingers to death, in that situatiom I don't think Gylfi offers enough for us to change play style. hence we have become very predictable, shut down the wings and shut downEverton. Problem also that we are heavy down the flanks but no target man to enjoy all the crosses.
There are good arguments both ways on Gylfi both sides have valid points. My point is, I seethe 10 as the main playmaker and creator in a team but we play with wingers and utilise the wingers to death, in that situatiom I don't think Gylfi offers enough for us to change play style. hence we have become very predictable, shut down the wings and shut downEverton. Problem also that we are heavy down the flanks but no target man to enjoy all the crosses.
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