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Yeah, might want to have a word about the manager not playing to his strengths, maybe he'd do better if that happened
Trent's stats across last season and this season show
He's better defensively this season
He's created more big chances this season, that other players have missed, H
He's way down on accurate long balls and crosses and He's way down on number of passes and passes per match
Both of which clearly shows he's not getting into the same positions he creates from as he was last season to make the crosses or play the long balls (usually right to left diagonals) or make the play and he isn't getting found in those positions by our midfielders
Edit: it's as if there's another player occupying his space while another hogs the ball so he is less involved in making the play
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Defensively Trent's tackle success rate has jumped from 57% last season to 73% this season a massive improvement and he's also made the same amount of tackles in fewer games
He's won more duels than he has lost this season, losing more than he won last season
He's won a greater percentage of his aerial duels this season, with similar percentage improvement to his tackling if I could be arsed to calculate it
It all pretty convincingly shows his defending has improved quite considerably
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Just means hes gotten away with countless errors. which he has.. when the balls played over his head to the wide man of the opposition. he has fuck all idea what to do..
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I've not been seeing that except for on the odd occasion, not with the frequency which you suggest, the highlights I've seen of our losses and our bad losses suggest to me teams are playing through of LCM and No6 area more than any other, Billing scores for Bournemouth right in the centre of our goal having run from midfield and not been picked up or tracked, the ball in is from down our left
I've seen quite a lot highlights this season that are the same
As for him creating less, not being able to get in the same positions because other another player is occupying the space he has consistently created from for 6 season's prior to this one and our midfield is not giving him the ball in the positions he usually creates from deep in - It's not rocket science, those stats paint a very clear picture that is the case, no other reason the number of crosses would be down so significantly
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Trent has also created more big chances already this season than he did last, despite clearly getting less opportunity to, he has created more big chances than any of our other players, twice as many as Robbo and almost twice as many as each of our 2 equal next best, Mo and Nunez
So it would appear he is better both offensively and defensively, creating more with drastically reduced opportunities to do so
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Regarding the Elliott issue on our right with Mo and Trent, Mo's stats for crosses, assists, big chances created and goals are all significantly down on last season too and the one before too and the one before that..........especially his goals
NOT getting into the same positions - Like Trent
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I just like to deal with the facts, stats can be used to misconstrue things, but when the stats match exactly what you've been seeing with your eyes and what every pundit and analyst on every Football broadcaster has also detailed, well, they become proper tools that support the facts
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The irony of all this is, I'm currently watching 'A Few Good Men'
'You can't handle the truth' why discuss, examine or consider the truth when you can just lazily keep blaming individual players for issues that firmly lie at the feet of the manager and his coaches?
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True Red ^^^^^^
Funny that injuries and lack of investment in midfield. Where we have invested we see improvement.Originally Posted by Nineteenx
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Have we? I could have sworn that rather than accept our midfielders role in the system was not the traditional role we were all used to, but predominantly to support our full backs playing further forward as they were more creative, that most people moaned for 3 or 4 seasons we needed more creative midfielders, who scored more goals and got more assists, I seem to remember us investing in a midfielder who was supposed to do all that and who to date has done none of it
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