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For me, he isn't a RAM.

He looks better as a RW.

He is creative, but he isn't creative enough to play as our regular starting RAM.

That's nothing against Amad but he is being made to fit in Amorims system again.

He is better at shooting than passing or creating.

If we bought Cherki - who would start at RAM, Cherki or Amad? It would be Cherki, but if we switch to playing a RW then Amad becomes the better option to a RAM.

Maybe Amorim knows this and is why he plays Amad as our RWB because Amad as a RAM is going to be sufficient but isn't going to be our mainstay.
 
I have the impression that he played with the brake already thinking about Wednesday's final.
 
V.O. said:
I think he needs to be at wingback. Getting the ball wider in more space suits him. He's had a lot of quiet games in the 10 slot.
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He needs to play as wide attacker, not this super fancy inside 10 or wingback where he will be expected to defend the space which will expose us defensively against any team with good wide players.

Despite not having the best of the game, He did lot more than others. Had our only shot on target, took players on(was double marked) and created couple of chance.
 
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Awful tonight, (Cucarella contained him a bit too easily,) but so was the rest of the team..
Should hang his head in shame for that dive though, absolutely embarrassing.
 
Bad game and still looked our most dangerous attacker. Should have had assist and could have scored.
 
El Jefe said:
I know we can go on like he’s perfect here but he seriously needs to add some range to his passing. He’s pretty limited in his creative passing, it’s all cutbacks or passes across the box for shots on goal and all of this is after dribbling. He’s very good at doing this and gets assists through this but it is a bit predictable.

His open play crossing, cross field play, passes over the top and first time passes into the channel are all lacking. He needs to develop this aspect of his game. Not everything can be nearby passes to feet.

If he has a game like today where he struggles to get by his marker, his passing limitations show a lot more. Nani could have games where he was abysmal at dribbling but he still had the ability to put in a ball of top quality with either foot.
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I think, it is a little soon to call out certain aspects of his game already. Looking at this game, the thing that would have helped him the most would have been dangerous team mates so the focus wouldn't have been on him all the time. I agree with your first sentence though, we have to make sure that hypetrains are stopped in their tracks, as we shouldn't put too much pressure on the guy.

I think, even in this current version, he is still the most modern player we have, and I'd say one of maybe not even a handful with game intelligence.
 
El Jefe said:
I know we can go on like he’s perfect here but he seriously needs to add some range to his passing. He’s pretty limited in his creative passing, it’s all cutbacks or passes across the box for shots on goal and all of this is after dribbling. He’s very good at doing this and gets assists through this but it is a bit predictable.

His open play crossing, cross field play, passes over the top and first time passes into the channel are all lacking. He needs to develop this aspect of his game. Not everything can be nearby passes to feet.

If he has a game like today where he struggles to get by his marker, his passing limitations show a lot more. Nani could have games where he was abysmal at dribbling but he still had the ability to put in a ball of top quality with either foot.
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'Range' doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's not like he has constantly overlapping full/wing backs and/or midfielders to link up with. You're forgetting he's playing mostly in the wide space because that's where he will get the ball because there's almost zero progression through the middle.

What you're saying is fair in a grander and long term scale but then it also applies to almost everyone else in the squad. His range is the least of our concerns atm. How we progress the ball, hold it, defend it, press without it and the list goes on is far more important than a bit of variety from arguably our most progressive player in 1 vs 1s.
 
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He has zero physical prowess. He is only good facing defenders on the wing. We need an Mbuemo type player.
 
Chelsea doubling up on him, he really needs to work on diagonal passes forward to left wing or striker like Salah to bypass it
 
Thought he was ok tonight.
We talk a lot about CF getting service but whe you are a winger , you get into a good spot to make a cross and the CF is nowhere to be seen that will be a problem.
Don’t worry about amad he can adapt but I feel our complete lack of a remotely capable CF is an issue.
 
DownRiver said:
He has zero physical prowess. He is only good facing defenders on the wing. We need an Mbuemo type player.
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He's a lot more feisty than his build should allow. He's numerous times hounded and dispossessed an opposition player and he's become stronger at holding opponents off (not strong, but stronger), he's also more clever about when to pass the ball before getting physically outpowered. The only time I've seen a left back neutralise him was when he faced Udogie (:eek:).
 
criticalanalysis said:
'Range' doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's not like he has constantly overlapping full/wing backs and/or midfielders to link up with. You're forgetting he's playing mostly in the wide space because that's where he will get the ball because there's almost zero progression through the middle.

What you're saying is fair in a grander and long term scale but then it also applies to almost everyone else in the squad. His range is the least of our concerns atm. How we progress the ball, hold it, defend it, press without it and the list goes on is far more important than a bit of variety from arguably our most progressive player in 1 vs 1s.
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Me bringing this up isn’t saying he’s not good enough as he’s easily our best forward player outside of Bruno but it’s something he needs to add to his game. You don’t need other players in the team to show your range of passing, Bruno shows it every game. Zirkzee is the only player that has some form of variation to his passing quality in the team. This limitation seriously affects us as a team and is part of why we struggle to score.

You’re second part about the team and how we pass is of course a bigger factor but focusing solely on Amad he needs to add more to his game.

He’s a good dribbler and really good at short passing interplay but the priority for him is upper body strength and expanding his passing range. Saka and Salah have this and opens up so much for their teams.
 
El Jefe said:
Me bringing this up isn’t saying he’s not good enough as he’s easily our best forward player outside of Bruno but it’s something he needs to add to his game. You don’t need other players in the team to show your range of passing, Bruno shows it every game. Zirkzee is the only player that has some form of variation to his passing quality in the team. This limitation seriously affects us as a team and is part of why we struggle to score.

You’re second part about the team and how we pass is of course a bigger factor but focusing solely on Amad he needs to add more to his game.

He’s a good dribbler and really good at short passing interplay but the priority for him is upper body strength and expanding his passing range. Saka and Salah have this and opens up so much for their teams.
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I understand what you're saying but until Amad has Liverpool/Arsenal level team mates, tactical fluidity and team dominance, I'd hesitate to criticise his range just yet. It's not unjustified but a bit unfounded imo.

I get your examples but both Bruno and Zirkzee play in the middle of the pitch and find themselves often in much deeper areas where their roles don't have them fronting players in 1 vs 1 and they get involved much more in the build up play.
 
Not his best game but still our most dangerous player, should have had an assist if Mount could finish, set up another shot for Bruno, and he beat the full back and shot to force a save from the keeper.

Imagine he had a midfield who could constantly feed him the ball in dangerous positions, a right wing back behind him who actually posed an attacking threat, a striker and a left sided attack who the opposition actually have to worry about.

Our tactics at the moment are "give the ball to Amad and hope his dribbling produces something". All teams have to do is double up on him and we have nothing else to offer, no one to exploit the space he creates by attracting 2 or 3 players to surround him.


Oh and the dive isn't good but it was still a good advert of his dribbling ability leading up to it. He really could be a really top player with more development and a better team around him.
 
Tottenham 1:0 Man Utd
Good first half, but totally disappeared in the second. Not good enough and should have been hooked early for Garnacho.
 
Only player that turned up but was shite in the second half. I can only put it down to fitness as he was playing so well and just fizzled out at the end.
 
He had a good first half, they closed down the right hand side in the second half. We didn't have the sense to actually you know put another winger on the left until with about 20 to go, but then we just didn't even bother with playing any football.

fecking infuriating.
 
Legs were gone in the second half, just didn't have the energy to take his man on
 
Woodenlung said:
Good first half, but totally disappeared in the second. Not good enough and should have been hooked early for Garnacho.
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Agree with the first part, but not the second. It was reasonable to believe Amad would have had a goal involvement late in the game as Spurs sat back deeper and deeper.
 
Fenômeno said:
Only player that turned up but was shite in the second half. I can only put it down to fitness as he was playing so well and just fizzled out at the end.
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There wasn't any space left on the right. They shut it down, there was acres and acres of space down the left the entire second half. Unfortunately Mount was there for most of the half
 
That was extremely bad in the 2nd half.

He either had nothing left in the tank or froze due to the occasion. I pick the latter because of how many times he slipped for no reason.
 
Was ok. Some good spurts and some bad moments. Was always doubled teamed, had very little support and/or under/over lap runs.
 
Had a stinker. Also picked the worst game to have a stinker. But I won’t go too overboard.
 
Once they got the goal they sat back and double marked him - that is why he was poor in the second half.

Very hard when you have 11 men camped in their own box. Think Messi vs Inter Milan in the semi final all those years ago and that was ten men for 60 minutes.
 
I said it a couple of weeks ago he's a really limited attacking player. Everything is into feet or short passes. Take away his ability 1v1 and defend the near post and there really isn't much to his game.

He's really good at the things he can do but he's not going to impact games as much as some think he will if he doesn't cross or seek out dangerous balls over the top.
 
Tried to win on his own. Why can't older players do that, and inspire him for once ?

Head up high, lad.
 
Skills said:
There wasn't any space left on the right. They shut it down, there was acres and acres of space down the left the entire second half. Unfortunately Mount was there for most of the half
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This is it, Spurs started doubling and tripling up on the right - in game management, something which we have not been good at.
 
If he had some technical players to link-up with instead of being isolated and needing to beat multiple players on his own, he'd really benefit from it.
 
This is why I am against the people who say we shouldn’t sign too many attackers in the summer because what will happen to Amad? He can compete with them. He is a good player, but some people will have you think he is a young Giggs, Rooney or Ronaldo.
 
Idxomer said:
That was extremely bad in the 2nd half.

He either had nothing left in the tank or froze due to the occasion. I pick the latter because of how many times he slipped for no reason.
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He was being double and triple marked in fairness, Spurs knew he was our only threat to the point that even van de Ven was coming out to mark him.
 
I hope this tempers people's expectations of him. He's a good player but he cannot single handedly win us games. As Andy Mitten says often, Amad is not the players to win you league titles on his own. He can be a very good contributor but people have been expecting far too much from him. He's been a shining light in a very poor team no doubt, but he cannot be the sole focal point of our attack.
 
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