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Lacina Traore

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Reminds me of Zat Knight, extremely tall centre half with a self confessed weakness for heading.

You would pray then that is means we aren't gona litter the box with crosses when he is on the pitch.
 
MoutsGoat said:
I havent seen him play personally, I based my comment on this I read.

http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/espnfcunited/id/11497?cc=5739

His left-footed shots are thunderous, he is pacy and physically powerful, while, quite bizarrely for such a lanky player, heading is arguably his biggest weakness, as he himself readily agrees.
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Peter Crouch is pretty average in the air as well to be honest. Might be because they are so lanky, can't generate enough force...
 

Crouch is pretty dire in the air as well. You'd think with such a blatant height advantage they would make sure to train that to be a lethal part of their game.


*edit* well thats just weird ^^^
 
To be honest it sort of makes sense that the tall ones are the worst at heading, since they are so tall they didn't need as good a technique as the shorter lads when heading the ball when they were younger because they didn't really have to fight to get it resulting in a poor leap and poor heading. A shorter lad on the other hand had to have their technique spot on to win headers so they worked harder at that side of the game to make up for their physical deficiencies.
 

riddick said:
Crouch is pretty dire in the air as well. You'd think with such a blatant height advantage they would make sure to train that to be a lethal part of their game.


*edit* well thats just weird ^^^
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But Crouch is like 130 lbs. I can see Distin, or even Jags, giving him a hard time
 
SpeedEFC said:
To be honest it sort of makes sense that the tall ones are the worst at heading, since they are so tall they didn't need as good a technique as the shorter lads when heading the ball when they were younger because they didn't really have to fight to get it resulting in a poor leap and poor heading. A shorter lad on the other hand had to have their technique spot on to win headers so they worked harder at that side of the game to make up for their physical deficiencies.
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Get Steve Smith on the case - he sits next to the away dugout.

http://www.raisethebar.co.uk/steve-smith
 

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