A joy to watch yesterday.
So Dembele-esq in how players bounce off him!
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A joy to watch yesterday.
So Dembele-esq in how players bounce off him!
Everton at home were worse.
They aren’t great but had an identical record to us coming in and winning at OT is never easy.
I’m not getting carried away at all but that was some display from Kulusevski. 9 chances created in the game and it really wouldn’t have been freakish if he’d finished the game with a goal and 3 assists.
That's fine but I wouldn't compare this to Kane away at Man City, that was my point.
And Everton were better than Utd, that's how bad they were!
I get commentators can't watch every game and be aware of the attributes of every player but the Sky commentator just made himself look silly late into yesterday's game when the ball came to Kulu and he pondered whether Kulu had much left in the tank.
The guy can run for 120 mins easily!
The guy can run for 120 mins easily!
Kane was better but this was comparable.
Which was my point and not really a hot take.
I think there’s a lot of premature sucking off of each other. I get it, the Kulu fanboys have had to wait two years for a genuine MoTm type performance, so you want to party. But let’s keep some perspective. He was really good, I was one of the 1st to come in and say man of the match well played. But that game is a unicorn where he’s concerned. A massive outlier.
Quoting chances and key passes is bogus. They mean very little as a qualitative measurement. Playing 8/10 for an incredibly attacking team will influence that hugely. Maddison’s XA is higher than Kulusevski’s for the season still, and of Kulusevski’s 1.98 XA, 1.45 of it came in that one game against a shit Utd. Which begs the valid question, where was kulusevski the rest of the games when we needed him. Against tougher opponents like Arse, Newcastle?
What was good was that Kulusevski was much more involved in the game yesterday and actually created tangible stuff. The back flick was still unnecessary vanity though, and made it harder for Maddison to collect the ball and as a consequence made the chance harder than if Kulusevski had just played a simple wall pass at the correct pace. And he also chose to shoot straight at the defender when we had a 2v1 situation to his left. These things were at 1-0 when the game was not ours.
He did also play a fantastic ball to put Werner away (the second one). And was involved in lots of good stuff.
More good please, less stupid tricks.
Let’s just see him do this consistently for a bunch of games. I don’t even care if he doesn’t score or make an assist every game if he’s just more involved and making better decisions and executions in the buildup that will impress me.
Also this strange claim that he’s got a fabulous engine. I just don’t get this. His engine is no better than anyone else is in that team we have people like Porro and Udogie running up and down the pitch all day long from to end. Maddison covers way more ground, and sees way more ball. Kulusevski isn’t always the quickest to get back. We play an extremely demanding brand of football, and athleticism is a minimum requirement, and nearly all our players show this, most as much if not more than Kulusevski.
Let’s just keep it real. Good game, needs to do it most weeks. Not once.
Quoting chances and key passes is bogus. They mean very little as a qualitative measurement. Playing 8/10 for an incredibly attacking team will influence that hugely. Maddison’s XA is higher than Kulusevski’s for the season still, and of Kulusevski’s 1.98 XA, 1.45 of it came in that one game against a shit Utd. Which begs the valid question, where was kulusevski the rest of the games when we needed him. Against tougher opponents like Arse, Newcastle?
What was good was that Kulusevski was much more involved in the game yesterday and actually created tangible stuff. The back flick was still unnecessary vanity though, and made it harder for Maddison to collect the ball and as a consequence made the chance harder than if Kulusevski had just played a simple wall pass at the correct pace. And he also chose to shoot straight at the defender when we had a 2v1 situation to his left. These things were at 1-0 when the game was not ours.
He did also play a fantastic ball to put Werner away (the second one). And was involved in lots of good stuff.
More good please, less stupid tricks.
Let’s just see him do this consistently for a bunch of games. I don’t even care if he doesn’t score or make an assist every game if he’s just more involved and making better decisions and executions in the buildup that will impress me.
Also this strange claim that he’s got a fabulous engine. I just don’t get this. His engine is no better than anyone else is in that team we have people like Porro and Udogie running up and down the pitch all day long from to end. Maddison covers way more ground, and sees way more ball. Kulusevski isn’t always the quickest to get back. We play an extremely demanding brand of football, and athleticism is a minimum requirement, and nearly all our players show this, most as much if not more than Kulusevski.
Let’s just keep it real. Good game, needs to do it most weeks. Not once.
You cannot wait to join in the suck fest.
Blakey: But were they really chances chances?
Edit: LOL he actually did post that the very next post. Only more longwinded.
Sloppy seconds only for Blakey..... Fair's fair.....
Keeping up the facade, gotta rate it.
You were like this on SC when you were desperately trying to tell everyone that Filip Lesniak was a better option in our midfield than Moussa Dembele, never change BC.
View: https://x.com/axelthfc/status/1840454479411376251?s=46
Safe to say he prefers the middle of the park.
The Maddison one has already been taken down re copyright which is annoying, but I urge you all to rewatch this, only instead of looking at Kulu follow Maddison.
When Kulu goes wide Maddison goes central, when Maddison goes deep, Kulu goes high, when Kulu goes central Maddison goes wide, lovely rotation between them and quite often whoever is on the ball they are looking for the other (plenty of other rotations too with the FB's on both sides for example but these two are bloody exciting to watch right now).
It was his best game for us, by some distance.
I like watching him play. And, perhaps that makes me more forgiving when he has a less impactful game.
I love the way he lets the ball roll past him and shields it, allowing him to progress the play with a single pass. That’s not by chance, that’s anticipation and being in the correct position to receive the ball. His weight of pass yesterday was perfect.
I always find the argument around Kulu a bit pointless. Yes, he can sometimes get a bit lost, but he’s pretty lowdown our concerns. I’d still, for example, keep him over Brennan.
The one thing I would like to see him do is drift across the area and twat the ball in the top left. I’d like to see him shoot more. But maybe this deeper transition position is where we will see him now.
A footballer with a footballing brain and it shows in the way he plays
