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Cool lolWrong.
The fact you even think about posting shite like this after yesterday shows us all what you are.
And that isn’t a compliment.
Too bad Sammy had to go and get himself banned. Would have loved to see how he would turn yesterday into a negative.
8/10 performance, largely due to what happened in the last 2 mins but his issues remains...
Other pundits have also been pointing out his obvious struggles in front of goal...
He did it 1 game against a battered/shit Leicester team. Honestly, they were atrocious and looked lethargic yesterday.Play down Kane's performance and focus on a couple of missed chances rather than the fact he was doing everything he's previously claimed Kane can't do i.e dominate defenders physically, win 1v1's regularly, hold up the ball and bring others in to play, showed a fantastic turn of pace.
Shift the goalposts? The goalpost at the beginning of the season was that he was a flat track bully and struggles to turn up against good teams with the exception of the odd game here and there. An 8/10 performance against Leicester doesn't change that.Their position has been blown apart, so now it's time to shift the goalposts
10 shots, 1 goal, 3 big chances missed. Not good for any striker mate.Play down Kane's performance and focus on a couple of missed chances
10 shotsThis is classic confirmation bias.
10 shots
1 goal
3 big chances missed
What striker wouldn't be able to score on 10 shots and 3-4 big chances?
Kane has 10 big chances missed on 4 non pen goals this season. He's among the leaders in big chances missed. It's not like a new problem/issue he's had this season.
Depends how you define "big chances". I see understat used regularly here to make a point, so here's Kane's graphic from yesterday.10 shots
1 goal
3 big chances missed
What striker wouldn't be able to score on 10 shots and 3-4 big chances?
Kane has 10 big chances missed on 4 non pen goals this season. He's among the leaders in big chances missed. It's not like a new problem/issue he's had this season.
Of course. But after yesterday, you have some delusional fans saying that he's back to being 'prime Kane' or 'better than Lewandowski.' He's far from being prime Kane. A prime 2016/17 Kane would have had a hattrick at half time and put the game away.So he's human then, and not a machine.
Oh hell find a way to fault himI rate him very highly and think he is a better all-round player than he gets credit for.
That said, i have been critical of him since the summer, both his attitude and performances, but cant see (apart from a couple of shots) how you can fault him last night.
I'm using the official premier league website. His big chances missed went up by 2 or 3 (can't exactly remember) from our last game.Depends how you define "big chances". I see understat used regularly here to make a point, so here's Kane's graphic from yesterday.
10 shots. He scored with a 0.6 xG and missed with (in order) 0.43, 0.09, 0.08, 0.07, 0.07, 0.05, 0.02, 0.02 and 0.01. Not sure what constitutes a "big chance, but if you claim he missed 3 of them, then you're referring to chances understat rated 0.43, 0.09 and 0.08.
As for Nicol, you cherry picked his opinions, latching onto his criticism, but conveniently leaving out the fact he stated Kane was "world class" last year.
He did it 1 game against a battered/shit Leicester team. Honestly, they were atrocious and looked lethargic yesterday.
He looked pretty good against Newcastle earlier this season too, putting in a similar performance. And I remember how everyone thought he was back and Sammy/Ndom this, Sammy/Ndom that.
Want to bet on whether he can do it this weekend against Chelsea or do it in the league with any sort of consistency? Hope he does but I highly doubt it.
Shift the goalposts? The goalpost at the beginning of the season was that he was a flat track bully and struggles to turn up against good teams with the exception of the odd game here and there. An 8/10 performance against Leicester doesn't change that.
10 shots, 1 goal, 3 big chances missed. Not good for any striker mate.
He had an excellent game yesterday. He was an absolute boss. It was the evolved Kane we saw at the start of last season but with more shiny teeth and smiles. 1 goal, 1 assist, countless fantastic passes. I loved watching him.I'm not even saying he didn't have a good game yesterday overall - he had a good all around game
His performances since December have been mostly 6-7s. Better than he was earlier this season but I wouldn’t call that good by any stretch of the imagination. Certainly not world class or elite.You realise he's been consistently good in the league of late? Right? RIGHT?
He scored vs Liverpool, Palace, Southampton and now Leicester. That's goals in 4 out of 5 of his last league games. He also scored another vs Southampton that was bizarrely disallowed, and it was a fucking quality goal to boot.
Yup I’m not denying that. But he was very wasteful.He had an excellent game yesterday. He was an absolute boss. It was the evolved Kane we saw at the start of last season but with more shiny teeth and smiles. 1 goal, 1 assist, countless fantastic passes. I loved watching him.
I think us fans take him for granted to be honest. Also, this weird idea that strikers should score every chance...I don't understand it. I am sick of hearing about his finishing from morons who must not understand football. Maybe it is because Kane has been so good that they think strikers are all like him in his pomp. Well, they are not.
Compared to Kane most strikers are shite. The bog standard striker is Rondon. Watch Jiminez, actually watch him. Watch Rashford give the ball away. Even watch Lukaku miss one-on-one after one-on-one.
We are lucky to have Kane.
Actually he’s having just as poor a season as Kane.Yeah but we would be even more lucky if we had Raul Jimenez though. You know, that Wolves striker that has never scored 20 goals in a season once.
That was his point...that any striker (even if they were average) could score 1 from 3 big chancesKane did score with 10 shots and/or 3 big chances during a game