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It rained here last night.It rains in Stoke every tuesday night.
It rained here last night.It rains in Stoke every tuesday night.
Myth is true then!!It rained here last night.
Sorry to delay the thread, how is Messi a superior footballer than Ronaldo?Ronaldo vs Messi is a matter of preference. No it isn't Messi, objectively Messi is a superior footballer
People say that transfers can't be concluded unless the new york stock exchange is open.Sorry, but what's this NYSE thing about?
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This isn't a myth, even though Cole scored alot of goals.Andy Cole was a profligate striker who missed a lot of chances: when the feck did the world start taking Glen Hoddle's word as gospel?
Excluding penalties, he had a better goal/game ratio in the Premier League than Alan Shearer. He was one of the most prolific strikers of his generation. No, overall he wasn't as lethal as Shearer but he still had a very, very good conversion rate overall.This isn't a myth, even though Cole scored alot of goals.
He wasted loads of chances, in fact more than any other striker i can remember during my time as a supporter.
Good thing he was so good at making smart runs and getting into scoring positions, we could actually afford him missing alot.
Goals/game isn't the same though.Excluding penalties, he had a better goal/game ratio in the Premier League than Alan Shearer. He was one of the most prolific strikers of his generation. No, overall he wasn't as lethal as Shearer but he still had a very, very good conversion rate overall.
He wasn't generally wasteful. Bit he wasn't clinical like say a Ruud Van Nistelrooy.Excluding penalties, he had a better goal/game ratio in the Premier League than Alan Shearer. He was one of the most prolific strikers of his generation. No, overall he wasn't as lethal as Shearer but he still had a very, very good conversion rate overall.
Hoddle's idiotic statement and some of Cole's big, glaring misses created a false perception. Unfortunately, he had some memorable misses, like at West Ham in 1995 or at the Bernabeu in 2000. It doesn't mean he was generally wasteful though; he most certainly wasn't, in fact.
Martial flopped last season because of off the field issues. The lad got divorced. If it were tactics at fault, we wouldn't have seen even glimpses of his true ability at times.That Martial struggled this season for any reason other than tactics. Last year LVG played a very structured system which allowed Martial a lot of space on the wing and thus let him use his greatest ability (and only ability which he really excels in) which is dribbling. This year we played a much narrower and less rigid system which didn't stretch the opposition as much horizontally. Also there was almost no support from the left back to drag defenders away and make space. Hence he had no room to dribble and thus was ineffective.
It's the same as any other winger of this type, Douglas Costa, Sterling etc. If they aren't dribbling and beating their men then they are terrible and they can't do that when there's no space.
Also the notion that Martial will 'find his form' next season. He'll find his form if he can either find space to play in or adapt his style so he's not a pure dribbler and can do other things
No, of course not. But he's regarded by many as the striker who needs five chances to score a goal which is rubbish. That's the other extreme from Van Nistelrooy.He wasn't generally wasteful. Bit he wasn't clinical like say a Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
But even a 1-5 chance taking striker isn't poor by any stretch of the imagination. That is even a bigger reason why Hoddle's statement was dumb. In big teams most strikers get an average of 7 chances a games to score IMO. If you can score 1 in 5 you'd end up scoring in most games.....No, of course not. But he's regarded by many as the striker who needs five chances to score a goal which is rubbish. That's the other extreme from Van Nistelrooy.
That depends on how you define "chance". The best strikers usually have a shot conversion rate around 20-25% but that's not chance conversion; after all, not every shot is something you would consider a real chance.But even a 1-5 chance taking striker isn't poor by any stretch of the imagination. That is even a bigger reason why Hoddle's statement was dumb. In big teams most strikers get an average of 7 chances a games to score IMO. If you can score 1 in 5 you'd end up scoring in most games.....
Sorry, I probably expressed it poorly. I meant that people have a tendency to describe players who are 28 as being 29; players who are 29 as being 30; etc.What does this mean? The truth is that players over 27 are actually one year older than they actually are?
That was Barcelona - that was the best example of it - but they linked up extremely well that season.Yorke and Cole had a "telepathic" understanding - I can only remember it happening once when Yorke dummied it for Cole in the semi against Juventus..
Pogbas dad died and he scored in the next 2 games he played. People overrate how much personal issues affect performances. Football players aren't thinking of these things during games, they can just focus on the games.Martial flopped last season because of off the field issues. The lad got divorced. If it were tactics at fault, we wouldn't have seen even glimpses of his true ability at times.
There is a quote of a stat somewhere that his goal/chance ratio was closer to 2 in 5. Though I can't find the source for that figure.That depends on how you define "chance". The best strikers usually have a shot conversion rate around 20-25% but that's not chance conversion; after all, not every shot is something you would consider a real chance.
If a striker misses 4 big chances out of 5, that's not good. But Andy Cole wasn't like that, no matter what Hoddle said.
Even though I know he wasn't and the stats prove this, in my head he is still one of the top scorers and scored 20+ every season.Ronaldo is flat track bully.
Drogba was one of the top scores in the EPL.
Last season proved this to be a myth, stupid refsReferees favour United
What a laughable conclusion to make after a wrong comparison. We have seen experienced footballers like Henry, Deco, Jardel and Adriano, to name but a few, have their form totally collapse during a season in which they were having divorce problems with their life partners. The notion that off field issues don't affect players much is terribly naive.Pogbas dad died and he scored in the next 2 games he played. People overrate how much personal issues affect performances.....
This is actually one of those myths that annoys me to no end, because it has popped up a thousand times in the Martial discussions. All down to ridiculously inaccurate tabloid press that this shite gets repeated over and over again.The lad got divorced
CheersPeople say that transfers can't be concluded unless the new york stock exchange is open.
Yes, that's indeed a myth. There's no way a poor/average tactician would beat teams like Barcelona with Schuster/Maradona, the Dream Team, and various other sides throughout the years.Alex Ferguson was poor tactically.
The greatest myth of them all.England is a great footballing nation.
There's also the huge footballing sacrifice made with the upheaval of trading key players such as Bale and Modric at the end of the transfer window when the pre-season is long gone and the season is well underway.Daniel Levy is some sort of genius when it comes to extracting extortionate transfer fees from clubs. He's a nightmare to deal with.
The short of it is just that.. he's not. History has shown this. He's let some of the club's best ever players leave for fees under their value, and to 'rivals' - See Michael Carrick to us for just £18.6m as an example
Second season syndrome also played a part imo (Defenders knew his style better). Plus Shaw not over-lapping never gave the full back that problem so dealing with Martial was more easier. His off field problems would not have helped and could have had a bearing on his form.Pogbas dad died and he scored in the next 2 games he played. People overrate how much personal issues affect performances. Football players aren't thinking of these things during games, they can just focus on the games.
Tactics were the issue, the glimpses came when he was able to find space which obviously is going to happen some of the time. Look at his performance against Reading in the FA Cup, he was magnificent because he had so much space to run into. Just look at all his performances when he does well it's always the same, lots of space to run into and then he beats his man over and over. If he's not doing that he's not playing well