Yannick Bolasie

[Goat]

We made 45 crosses into the box against Burnley.

The wingers arent the issue.

 

[Khalekan]

Was he though?

14 games, 1 goal, 4 assists is quite decent, but not stellar for a player through which our entire attacking play was put through. Inbetween a lot of wild crossing and unpredictable play. He's also blessed with crossing in to one of the best finishers in the country (not that it should detract from anything, just qualify it).

Had he signed next season and we were a solid outfit that had finished in the top 7, he'd likely have been tolerated a lot more than he was before he got injured.

Spot on Orly.

The "four assists" has been accorded almost mythical status by some of our friends on here

For the life of me I do not see how that rates as being an extraordinary return after 14 games

 

[orly]

We made 45 crosses into the box against Burnley.

The wingers arent the issue.

But crosses into the box, in theory, are just the easiest thing to defend.

• Usually more members of the defending side than attackers
• Ball is usually travelling away from the goal (cut back, curled away) so the striker has to generate the power and or the placement
• For a centre half (not Everton ones) heading a ball should be their staple technique

So it needs to be quality crossing, and you couldn't say Bolasie does that with any regularity

 

[Goat]

But crosses into the box, in theory, are just the easiest thing to defend.

• Usually more members of the defending side than attackers
• Ball is usually travelling away from the goal (cut back, curled away) so the striker has to generate the power and or the placement
• For a centre half (not Everton ones) heading a ball should be their staple technique

So it needs to be quality crossing, and you couldn't say Bolasie does that with any regularity

Fam leave Yannick alone, turn your abuse to the lazy sack of crap begging for a move.

 

[Blue Cheese]

Just because he's our top assister means squat, In real terms, the amount of ball he gets and the position he plays, I would say he's extremely unproductive, on top of that it stifles or cancels out any other way of playing, so he makes other players become unproductive also.

His job is to create goals, he is actually tasked by our manager to be the main playmaker so I'd say 4 assists and 1 goal are actually shocking in that scenario.

I feel a lot of players form is suffering due to reliance on Bolasie. I hope our play and form show this whilst he is out. I think we are to far gone morale wise though to be an instant fix.

 

[windymiller]

But crosses into the box, in theory, are just the easiest thing to defend.

• Usually more members of the defending side than attackers
• Ball is usually travelling away from the goal (cut back, curled away) so the striker has to generate the power and or the placement
• For a centre half (not Everton ones) heading a ball should be their staple technique

So it needs to be quality crossing, and you couldn't say Bolasie does that with any regularity

100% this. Nobody, least of all Yannick, has any clue where his crosses are going. He never lifts his head to see who is where in the box he just puts the ball in areas but never the same area twice. Sometimes is a looping ball to the back post, sometimes low to the near post, sometimes cut back to the edge of the box and on and on and on. That would be fine if it was dictated by the position of his teammates but he has no idea where they are. He is a random cross generator.

 

[d34noj]

We made 45 crosses into the box against Burnley.

The wingers arent the issue.

Depends on the quality of the crosses.

 

[Bungle]

Fam leave Yannick alone, turn your abuse to the lazy sack of crap begging for a move.

My mrs?

 

[Mountfield1985]

We made 45 crosses into the box against Burnley.

The wingers arent the issue.

Well if all 45 were rubbish, then it is a bit of an issue!

For me, our issue is we carry 4/5 players who have moments of magic in them, but don't contribute enough to the overall play. Most teams carry 1 or 2.

 

[AndyC]

Nobody, least of all Yannick, has any clue where his crosses are going.

Is the real problem with the lad.

On the plus side... He's got pace in abundance, and that alone must make a bit of a nightmare to mark if you're the opposition defender.

On the downside... even if/when he beats said defender/s, even he doesn't seem to have a defined modus operandi. He either puts his head down and races away before attempting crosses - as previously stated in other posts - with no apparent regard for where the intended recipient/s are heading to... or he goes off on his own tangent, dribbling.

Too often, he doesn't seem to know what he's going to do, so how can Rom and others have a real idea either?

Rom and the rest head to the box hoping for a cross to come in their general direction, not expecting/knowing it will.

 

[Blue Cheese]

Palace have scored more than us and we supposedly took their main man.

 

[Khalekan]

Depends on the quality of the crosses.

True.

Remember the day Fulham went to United when Moyes was there and United accumulated the record amount of crosses in an EPL game?

And the Fulham centre half said they just loved it.........he had never faced so many crosses in a game since his non league days lol

 

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[riddick]

He's frustrating and usually pretty crap, but he gets balls into the box usually. Problem is, we don't really have ANYONE that gets on the end of it. Lukaku isn't exactly renowned for his aerial abilities tbh. Someone like Benteke or Carroll would have a field day in this team.