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It has already been pointed out that simple counting stats rarely tell what actually happened. GLC should be doing better there but he has provided so much more creativity than PEH.

Damn shame you fail to understand that PEH is not being played in the name of creativity and that this fact makes it all the more damning that he's more productive than your boy Gio.

He gets played because we are powder-puff with either of the other two in the middle.

I agree that none of the three should be starting for us. I don’t think Ndombele or GLC are the answer just better options than PEH.

Depends if that option you desire is getting rinsed through the middle as they ghost about like non-entities.
 

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It doesn't sound crazy; it just re-affirms you have a blind spot for what both of them fail to bring to the table.....

Sadly the occacional nice touch or pass doesn't cut it our league and there'in lies the flaw with the 'plays nicer football' stuff you were chatting about Betis too.

An occasional nice touch wouldn't cut it in any league. It's not that I have a blind spot for what both of them fail bring to the table, it's that I think it's a possibility that both have the capability to be better in a different tactical/team set up.

I also don't think either of them are as bad as has been made out. Especially in the context of the shite that's played in this team the last few years.

And I didn't say Betis play "nicer" football, I said "better football than us".
 
Who removed the 'Funny' button ?

I'd love to have more creativity in the team. But 5 managers in turn have shown in team selections that Ndombele runs out of gas way before the 90- minute mark - its worth counting the number of times he's played 90 minutes since he joined Spurs. Go on guess if its more or less than 25 PL games he completed 90 minutes since joining.

You might want to look at Lo Celso's goal/assist ratio and compare it to Hojbjerg since both joined. Sadly it showed the DM has scored and assisted more than Lo Celso ................

XA which is a more accurate qualitative and quantitate measure of creativity, Lo Celso has the best XA90 at the club this year so far 0.47, (Ndombele 0.11), Hojbjerg 0.05. Last year Lo Celso 0.11, (Ndombele 0.09), Hojbjerg 0.05.

I think we are desperate lacking creativity. I', not saying Lo Celso could start in a CM2 instead of PEH, but I think we'd be a better team if he (and Ndombele) started as 8's with one of PEH/Skipp in between them in a 352, instead of having Skipp/Hojbjerg as a CM2 and Moura out there.
 
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