The best left foot in the game.
-
The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...
Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports
Best he's been for about 3 or 4 years in the last 3 or 4 matches, you just can't be confident when it comes to lamela tho, if he plays himself into form an injury is never too far away unfortunately.
That tackle was wild.
And Xhaka's wasnt wild?
There's more to it than just avoiding using his right foot, It decieves the opposition players and it provides the player with a different angle of shot/pass than a conventional kick.
Look at how Bale has been using the outside of his left foot from right sided crosses. It gives him an outswinger from a left foot. The defender is trying to show him outside, on to his weaker foot, to stop a dangerous cross, but he uses the outside of the left boot to create the same as a good, right footed cross.
Outside of the left foot is a whole nother skill and one that is useful. Being actually able to use your weak foot is preferable to a rabona in 99.99% of situations.
That rabona shot was a great shot but lamela is 100x easier to defend because every defender knows he has no right foot.
These types of flashy goals draw so much attention but overlook the fact that the reason he even tried it (and most players don’t) is because of a giant weakness in his game.
You'd be surprised how often defenders get caught out by his dribbling even though he is unbelievably one-footed. Just look at some of his mazy runs in the last few appearances, he's had some crackers. The ball-roll is a real weapon to help, and he does the scotty parker pivot to escape pressure a lot too.
He has a very weird dribbling style that is half combatative and half skillful that actually gives defenders a lot of grief when he is on the move.
Not defending his lack of right-footedness mind you, but he's got very far with the one foot only!
Name me a single right footed player that is as one footed as he is. He can’t even dribble with his right.
Riyad Mahrez is similarly one footed. Much better player too, but very much one footed.
because most people are right footed?
Yes, I think you’re right here.
very good post
He's been better than Son as of recent and a a hell of a lot more effective than Stevie.
So you're saying we should play Stevie over Lamela?
Hard to argue with such solid reasoning.
He must have incriminating photos of Danny doing unspeakable things to consenting farm animals on the board room table. I just cannot understand how Levy would tolerate him like this, wasn't he our record signing at the time?
I'm laughing that he almost managed to go his whole Spurs career without a red
I'm laughing that he almost managed to go his whole Spurs career without a red
Linked with a move to Napoli in the summer.
He'd be perfect for them.
He'd be perfect for them.