Its a picture of Kane.
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Its a picture of Kane.
That move at 0:14s is ridiculous.
Lucas Moura, the one-man counter
Harry Kane was arguably the missing link for both teams in Sunday’s teatime fixture.
Manchester City were crying out for a striker to aim for in the box and someone who can drop to link play and stretch Tottenham’s back line. Spurs’ forward line of Steven Bergwijn, Son Heung-min and Lucas Moura were missing their link man to make the most of the speed on the break.
So instead of looking to pass the ball upfield to spring counters, the burden fell on the shoulders of Moura to run past City in transition. Moura attempted 11 take-ons and completed six, the highest and joint-highest numbers for him in the league and the most in a single game by a Tottenham player since January 2019.
Bergwijn and Son combined to attempt (and complete) just two take-ons. Instead, they were the beneficiaries of Moura’s hard work — Son received seven passes from Moura and Bergwijn four, the Brazilian’s first and third-most common connections in possession.
Tasking Moura, not Son or Bergwijn, to take on City makes sense from a data perspective. Looking at smarterscout’s dribble rating — which is a score from 0 to 99 of how good a player is at taking on others, adjusting for the quality of players beaten (or failed to beat) in the past — shows that Moura is Tottenham’s best dribbler.
Moura is rated 82/99, suggesting he is very good at taking on players and hasn’t just got a high take-on success rate because he’s running at players who are bad when isolated one-on-one. Bergwijn and Son’s ratings of 70/99 and 51/99 indicate they’re not as adept as Moura.
Whether Moura’s next outing is as a one-man counter-attack remains to be seen, but if this game is anything to go by, expect to see him posting the highest take-on rates of any Tottenham player this season.
We need Silva
Thoughts on his performance yesterday?
Fernandinho's post-match interview talking about trying to catch Lucas counterattacks I thought was very telling.
Amazing energy, funny how players tend to show their best form when they know what their role is in the team.
It's because Kane clogs up the middle of the pitch and he's not fast enough to run alongside Lucas when Lucas goes on his runs.
Lucas plays much better with Son up top as Son can run with him and move into dangerous areas, freeing up space for Lucas to dribble into.
Berg/Lucas/Son played extremely well together. Dynamic, fluid, pacey. It was all there.
How anybody can look at him when he plays like that and not appreciate what he is capable of doing I'll never know.
Well yeah but he doesn’t always play like that
I’ve seen games where he can’t trap a bag of cement
Of course he's been inconsistent I'll agree with that. But plenty have said he's just a headless chicken but he's clearly a very good underrated player imo.
Interesting theory. I thought on Sunday they broke well but looked a little confused what to do when they got near the box. They broke in that 3 quite a few times and passes were on to play one in but they didn't have that chemistry. Guess we'll find out when Kane goes.
He needs a song.