BigPoppaPump
Reeling from Laca & Kos nightmares
Erlis was much more funny and entertaining, and not as desperate.
Erlis was much more funny and entertaining, and not as desperate.
I’m not desperate mate. Agenda merchants are annoying and they are everywhere. They’re the desperate ones. They’re like an army of flies. You swat one after the other but it doesn’t make a dent, they keep coming.
Mate, this is a pretty desperate way of spinning what took place. Better accept he struggled and hope he does better in the next game. That Liverpool press Xhaka hard isn’t a surprise as he isn’t good at beating it. You really are either confused or trying to spin. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and say it’s the latter. I will give you the same advice I think many Trump supporters need, don’t buy into spin and gaslighting!Xhaka can handle a press by most teams. Liverpool’s press yesterday was a different kind of press. They were tight on Xhaka at all times and didn’t allow him any space. It was their game plan. It speaks volumes for Xhaka’s quality that they focus on him like that. Nevertheless, let’s not pretend like he was one of the worst performers, that’s your agenda talking.
Mate, this is a pretty desperate way of spinning what took place. Better accept he struggled and hope he does better in the next game. That Liverpool press Xhaka hard isn’t a surprise as he isn’t good at beating it. You really are either confused or trying to spin. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and say it’s the latter. I will give you the same advice I think many Trump supporters need, don’t buy into spin and gaslighting!
Mate, this is a pretty desperate way of spinning what took place. Better accept he struggled and hope he does better in the next game. That Liverpool press Xhaka hard isn’t a surprise as he isn’t good at beating it. You really are either confused or trying to spin. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and say it’s the latter. I will give you the same advice I think many Trump supporters need, don’t buy into spin and gaslighting!
Fwiw I think Elneny is a really poor partner for him in the big games. Neither can dribble, only Xhaka can pass forward, and they both occupy the same lateral which limits passing combinations through the middle.
Might work against the weaker teams when we've got enough time on the ball to work around them, but it's asking for trouble against a team like Liverpool who can press us up to the six yard box. It was the same under Wenger during Elneny's last stint here. They just don't suit each other.
"press resistance" is 50% a function of the player's individual ability to pass, and 50% his team mates ability to provide passing options.
This level of propaganda would make Kim Jon Il proud. In football when you press a player it often means the opposition sees that player as a weakness, which ironically you seem to think Xhaka has no weakenesses.Xhaka can handle a press by most teams. Liverpool’s press yesterday was a different kind of press. They were tight on Xhaka at all times and didn’t allow him any space. It was their game plan. It speaks volumes for Xhaka’s quality that they focus on him like that. Nevertheless, let’s not pretend like he was one of the worst performers, that’s your agenda talking.
This level of propaganda would make Kim Jon Il proud. In football when you press a player it often means the opposition sees that player as a weakness, which ironically you seem to think Xhaka has no weakenesses.
No offence but that's really not what press resistance is at all, you've described a mix of a team's tactical organisation and passing ability, in a discussion that's clearly about an individual's press resistance.
http://outsideoftheboot.com/2017/09/08/tactical-theory-strategic-importance-press-resistant-players/
No offence but that's really not what press resistance is at all, you've described a mix of a team's tactical organisation and passing ability, in a discussion that's clearly about an individual's press resistance.
http://outsideoftheboot.com/2017/09/08/tactical-theory-strategic-importance-press-resistant-players/
This level of propaganda would make Kim Jon Il proud. In football when you press a player it often means the opposition sees that player as a weakness, which ironically you seem to think Xhaka has no weakenesses.
"Simply put, press resistance is the ability to maintain possession of the ball despite coming under pressure from the opposition."
fundamentally "press resistance" is 50% a function of the player's individual ability to pass, and 50% his team mates ability to provide passing options.
"However, the one quality inherent in all truly press resistant players (apart from technical excellence of course) is awareness. An awareness of their surroundings at all times that enables them to make the best possible decisions for their teams whether it be passing to a more open team mate or dribbling out of pressure."
Xhaka obviously isn't good enough for a team with title ambitions but A-M make him out to be the Titus Bramble of 2020
guile
/ɡʌɪl/
noun
- sly or cunning intelligence.
"he used all his guile and guts to free himself from the muddle he was in"
Santi Cazorla's probably the best I've ever seen at it. His injury and Xhaka's arrival as the mainstay of our midfield was one hell of a double whammy.
How is this^ the same as
this?
As I said before, you just described passing ability and a team's structural organisation, things that are related to press resistance but are not a definition of it at all.
If you look at the article your definition might have a bit more relevance to what the author calls 'collective press resistance'.
Awareness, composure when a defender gets closer (see: Ceballos or any press resistant player), technical ability, passing ability under pressure--well, I've basically just described all of the things that make up press resistance, and Xhaka is poor at all of them bar perhaps technical ability, but in technical ability in terms of short control he is poor, indeed.
I just can't believe people are arguing such a clear-cut point. Xhaka is not press resistant, it's literally one of the defining characteristics of his game and something we've seen for years and years and years. Anyways, I give up, no need to muddy the waters on what really is just a basic fact.