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Eddie the cat

Clrnc

Big Willie

Clrnc looooooool, is that Kane and Mudryk? And Man City reserves, they are mocking it haha.

Meatwad

Big Willie

and the YNWA loudspeakers from all or nothing.

pep with the glory glory man united sign.

Claudius

Hope the fans sing this Friday. Lol.

est

This song has been stuck in my head for the last two days. Too catchy.

Meatwad

Burnwinter

Meatwad

😂 Great, though this guy remains the standard

Pepe LeFrits

Sounds like the Scottish dude drom TIFO IRL

flobaba

Eddie got some flowers from Arseblog in their latest piece:

Your defence is in trouble

He’s done a fine job. I’m cautiously becoming a fan.

Coombs

flobaba Why cautiously? Take a risk and live a little, flo!

Claudius

Eduardo was going to be the benchmark. Hopefully Eddie can be that guy now

Tam

Claudius that defending! I’m not saying it was an easy finish, but they almost literally couldn’t have made it any easier for him.

Burnwinter

Tam Feels like the pace which the sport's changing tactically has increased in recent years.

If the top clubs went back in time now, they'd confuse the shit out of teams from twenty years ago. Not saying they'd win, but they'd be baffling, with the emphasis on counter-pressing and playing out from the back these days, everyone would be going in the wrong direction half the time.

Claudius

Yeah. Would be great to see the invincibles against this lot. Instead of stiffs like Carragher, Henry would be facing big mobile Centre forwards. Every time Sol had the ball, Jesus would be all over him like a spider monkey. They’d be so lost.

Pep’s own Barca team had the same possession principles but I can’t remember the pressing layered on as well. It’s interesting to hear Pep describe his football. He describe the defensive side as the foundation. Which makes sense

Clrnc

Biggest weakness in Nketiah game tbh is his tunnel vision in front of goal.

Big Willie

Clrnc Biggest weakness in Nketiah game tbh is his tunnel vision in front of goal.

Which to be fair is also one of his biggest strengths.

awooga83

He doesn't have the necessary quality and that's not good fault but we know that. He goes for those shots more often then not because that's the player he is and we've seen it. He is unlikely to change so we need another option but for this season that's what the club decided wood work for us.

Clrnc

Big Willie Yeah true.

Actually Haaland's pass was really smart, took alot of our defenders by surprise and the next pass was even more unexpected

Daz

Big Willie being willing and eager to shoot does not need to equate with having tunnel vision though. A better, more rounded player in that situation would ideally square the ball, not take a very low percentage pot shot. So given that I'd agree it's a weakness of Eddie's that is not sufficiently compensated by his willingness to have a crack at goal.

Claudius

He has very low creative ability.
He is actually most suited to the way Arteta used him originally - as a super sub when the game is stretched. Let him run in and get chances.

What is Eddie good at

elite movement in the box to get onto the end of passes with his foot or his head. Absolute shot generation beast

What is Eddie not good at

small and weak, so he cannot work defenders the way Haaland, Toney etc and even Jesus do
cannot create, so does not bring midfielders into play from the top of the box
doesn’t make runs into the wings, again not integrating the wingers / vacating the box for the 8s to run in. So you end up with isolated and uninvolved 8s and wingers.

I’d you look at his data, he’s 90th percentile in shot production and 35th percentile in chance production. The above characteristics are what’s driving this

Qwiss

You should have written that post after the United match.

Claudius

Qwiss

Qwiss You should have written that post after the United match.

Why?

JazzG

Qwiss He isn't going to be involved in the build up as much, just not his game but he has to be more clinical. Eddie is a great talent but if he wants to push himself to the next level those half chances at Newcastle, Everton and City he needs to be putting some of them away.

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