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Player Richarlison
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He's done great this year since his return from injury. I think he has a weakness in 1v1 positions and should work on that to make himself a better player. And that's not just about the shot. It's about positioning the ball and yourself into the correct place. Where you want your initial touch to put you in front of goal to have the best chance of scoring.
I could be wrong. I’m no professional.
I’d suggest, however, that your expectations may be too high.
Your expectation in this instance is too high, because your criticism is classic detached arm-chair punditry that relies upon players being veritable robots.
Keeper did his job and foiled the striker.
Funny you mention Liverpool...... Would you bank on Nunez finishing every half-decent chance that comes his way?
No sane man would.
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You must have me mixed up with another poster. Those types of chances can be missed, I was more frustrated with him giving the ball away early on - my expectation is that he can be involved in linking the play much better for £60m.
Looks like I did. My bad.
....But much the same; that was the "expectations" being spoke of.
I don't really think it's wrong to expect a top a striker at the top of the professional game to finish from that position. It's part of the reason (not solely Richarlison)we have dropped so many points this season. We should be expecting him to score from there.
Richarlison has more goals and more goals per 90 minutes than any player on City or Liverpool except for Haaland or Salah.
Seen Sonny fluff enough chances like that over the years (for a long time he was regarded as a classic case of the "too much time to think" finisher)....... Defoe - another revered THFC goalscorer - was never ultra-clinical either.......
M'thinks you've just got used to the luxury of Kane being a GOAT.
Richy isn't a GOAT; but FFS he's in hot form and contributing even when he's not scoring..... Leave him be.
And the outcome is the same as a miss.
I don’t get why everyone has to be on team richarlison or anti richarlison.
The guy has been super lately but he didn’t have his best attacking game against Brighton. He still contributed in other ways though.
The guy has been super lately but he didn’t have his best attacking game against Brighton. He still contributed in other ways though.
A 1 yard almost missplaced pass.
Kulu was great.
A 1 yard pass.
Any 9 would be in the box for that?
A chance Son burries yeah.
All really hard things to do I see. You're really trying to find the small things here.
Look i'm obvious happy with his 9/9 and him stepping up while Son was away.
But Son is back and the best 9 in the league. Then you play him there.
Richy as a 9 need to many chances to convert and that will hinder us winning games, like it almost did at the weekend.
Richarlison has 68 goals in 59.1 xG during his entire time in the PL (Watford, Everton, Spurs). = 1.15 ratioA 1 yard almost missplaced pass.
Kulu was great.
A 1 yard pass.
Any 9 would be in the box for that?
A chance Son burries yeah.
All really hard things to do I see. You're really trying to find the small things here.
Look i'm obvious happy with his 9/9 and him stepping up while Son was away.
But Son is back and the best 9 in the league. Then you play him there.
Richy as a 9 need to many chances to convert and that will hinder us winning games, like it almost did at the weekend.
Son has 97 goals in 69.4 xG since 2017/2018 season (because Fbref frame start there) = 1.40 ratio
Kane 135 in 111.8 since 2017/2018 for Spurs, Bayern not counted = 1.21 ratio
Richarlisons finishing is almost as good as Kane's and absolutely elite. Son is the best finisher in the world and from inside the box he has an 1.3 ratio, but his stats are pulled to 1.4 because his outside the box is somewhere between 2.5 and 3.0.
So the difference in inside the box finishes between Richarlison and Son over a season given, let's say 20 xG would be:
Richarlison: 20x1.15 = 23 goals
Son: 20x1.3 = 26 goals
This is an extreme oversimplification of what their roles entail and how having them in different positions would play out. But if you want to compare their finishing in the box there isn't a big enough difference to decide their positions on that.
Firstly,you can never say that Richarlison’s finishing is almost as good as Kane’s! That’s just bonkers.
I’ve been Richy’s biggest critic but he has to start at centre forward just now while he is scoring and contributing every game. The goal on Saturday demonstrates that having Sonny wide even though his best position for us is centre forward is more beneficial. Richy wouldn’t find Johnson at the back post at that stage of the game. It’s all about the timing and pace of the run that gets him in a position to have that extra second to play the pass between defence and keeper. Richy not having the pace would give the defenders enough time to recover and block the cross and even then I don’t think Richy would make the cross.
If your centre forward is on 9 goals in 9 games he plays. No dispute. Sonny is not a one trick pony so he can still produce from wide left as he showed on Saturday. I’d like to see Werner on the right just now too.
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