I'm not surprised he can't even drop a beat or fart.
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I love Lucas.
He has three main qualities:
1) I love how he carries (dribbles) the ball and when he runs at defences. He can get most defences turned, which causes spaces and errors etc. The negative to him here is he rarely finds the pass to the player who's found the space that his dangerous runs had created. And of course, this is completely wasted when we play against a low block.
2) I think he's a good finisher but rarely finds the opportunity between the CB's or CB/FB's. (maybe the problem is also our lack of creativity behind him, don't want to lump all this on his shoulders).
3) He's great in the air, maybe I'd go so far as saying he's our best header of the ball. But this means we just lump aimless balls into the box.
For me I love having him in the squad, he's a quality player, far, far better than we've previously had as options to rotate with or bring off the bench. But he's not a starter for me unless it's designed to give rest for the players that are better than him. Having him in our squad elevates its overall quality, but he's not a starter in our best 11.
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He played better than Lucas!!!!
*Applause*
I really didn’t want to come off as a Lucas hater but the best thing I’ve heard said about him is that he’s the wild card, an agent of chaos within our formulaic system. I still want him around definitely, you don’t turn up your nose at his qualities. Yet he is an iso baller.
But the tempo of the game wasn't incredible, quite the opposite in fact.
You do not have access to player data, nor does Hoddle one of our worst ever Managers. He was fit weeks before the final and we kept him under wraps especially for that game, his entire preparation was for that game I would have thought.
All of our shit performances in that ridiculous run into the 4th spot of the PL were without Kane too!! Go figure.
Well Lucas still doubled his shot tally of one, in 70 less minutes.
Its almost as if you think being dropped after the semi should act as some kind of motivation.
He came into a losing game, when the ideas were dead, the heads were down and the tactics slowly strangling everyone around him to death.
Cling to your fake news that Kane played well all you like mate, I’m not going to discuss a fantasy.
How’s Trippier doing on the bench at QPR by the way?
Ajax make that final instead of us and Liverpool eat them up 4-0... it’s hilarious how naive they were... who allows a counter attack at 3 up?
If Lucas started games for us he’d get 20 goals a season
There is a world of difference between being physically fit and match fit. The tempo of the game was not as anticipated because nobody expected a Liverpool goal in the first minute, it completely changed the planned strategies of both sides. You have just posted on here regarding Lucas :
But he's not a starter for me unless it's designed to give rest for the players that are better than him.
That perfectly describes why he should have started and a Harry Kane returning from a seven week lay off should have replaced him after about an hour.
It's simply a question of did Poch pick the best possible side to start that game and in my opinion he didn't. You think otherwise so we shall agree to differ.
I agree with you, he hasn’t been given a run in the team and in recent matches where we have been so pedestrian I think he should have been
Try and play straight Sammy, I said he played better than Lucas did, I didn't say he played well. In fact there wasn't a single player from either side that I can say played well, it was a very poor quality game of football from both sides.
As for Tripps, are you aware that AM has had their worst ever start to a season in the 11 years under Simeone? We've scored 5 more goals than they have despite playing a game less and we're shit!! Sorry to have to break that news to you, it must be all those assists stats that cloud the judgment hey?!?
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With Kane the narrative has always been "he looks like he needs a rest", he gets a rest and it's "he's not match fit".There is a world of difference between being physically fit and match fit. The tempo of the game was not as anticipated because nobody expected a Liverpool goal in the first minute, it completely changed the planned strategies of both sides. You have just posted on here regarding Lucas :
But he's not a starter for me unless it's designed to give rest for the players that are better than him.
That perfectly describes why he should have started and a Harry Kane returning from a seven week lay off should have replaced him after about an hour.
It's simply a question of did Poch pick the best possible side to start that game and in my opinion he didn't. You think otherwise so we shall agree to differ.
As I said we know if a player is fit or not, we employ many boffins and spend huge sums of cash to understand this.
So he’d outperform Son? Cos he’s certainly not a better player than him.
I agree with you on this. He was like tits on a bull in every game after the hat-trick, and on that basis alone, I was OK with Kane starting.
It seems to me that Poch knew the 11 he wanted to start against Liverpool ever before a ball was kicked against Red Star, and went with that (with the possible exception of Lamela, who picked up an injury in the meantime).
Son also gets benched by our world class manager
Who Hoddle?Knowing you,Guido 🇺🇦 , I expect you defended him to the hilt at the time.
I love the player but as a Manager and as a pundit I think he's shit! Thought he was shit when he managed us at the time too. Never got a banner going though if that's what you mean, I'll leave all that shit to you lot.