TRon Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 TCD and Cronky kept whingeing about Cisse just being a finisher. I wish he'd been on the end of a couple of the crosses that Mitro has fluffed in front of goal, especially with the head. Aguero must be 5ft tall but he showed the difference real finishing instinct makes in that position for Man City today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Cisse would have absolutely buried that knee hit thing he had. Kind of chance Cisse falls over and smacks in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FustinoSolano Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Like others have said it shouldn't have been a choice between him and Austin in the summer, we should have got both. Would have been ideal to have Mitrovic as a young player able to adapt to a new league without huge pressure and expectations while Austin could have slotted in nicely with minimum of fuss. All we need this month is a new striker, central midfielder, centre half, winger and a left back... easy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 TCD and Cronky kept whingeing about Cisse just being a finisher. I wish he'd been on the end of a couple of the crosses that Mitro has fluffed in front of goal, especially with the head. Aguero must be 5ft tall but he showed the difference real finishing instinct makes in that position for Man City today. Aguero's a far better all round footballer than Cisse like - stop. But I agree - if we are going to continue to be a shit side a striker like Cisse of last season is much better than Mitro definitely. I'm not even aganist Cisse starting a fair number of games this season if we don't buy another striker. I'd have him rotating for Mitro. Mitro hasn't added that all round game to the benefit of the team as I had hoped so yeah - Cisse is a very valid alternative. I'd take Austin who isn't meant to be a great link up player either. Papiss also had a season where he scored twice in 24 PL matches so I wouldn't depend on him at all and would prefer we got rid and replaced him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Austin's lack of link up play is a total myth like, he's perfectly fine at it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 TCD and Cronky kept whingeing about Cisse just being a finisher. I wish he'd been on the end of a couple of the crosses that Mitro has fluffed in front of goal, especially with the head. Aguero must be 5ft tall but he showed the difference real finishing instinct makes in that position for Man City today. Aguero's a far better all round footballer than Cisse like - stop. TCD and Cronky kept whingeing about Cisse just being a finisher. I wish he'd been on the end of a couple of the crosses that Mitro has fluffed in front of goal, especially with the head. Aguero must be 5ft tall but he showed the difference real finishing instinct makes in that position for Man City today. Aguero's a far better all round footballer than Cisse like - stop. ok I'll stop.Otherwise I might have talked about scoring goals or something. I know you are a keen analyst of such details normally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I still feel bad for Mitrovic, he's clearly good and not our main problem. Thing is, we now seem to be defending resolutely. We're just way too predictable in attack. It's either passing back to Elliot for a hoof that immediately goes to the opposition, or we attack down the RIGHT FLANK ONLY with a floated cross. It's painful to watch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 All about the way we attack tbh. Mitro is a good striker when a team plays to his strenghts, we just do basically the opposite. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 All about the way we attack tbh. Mitro is a good striker when a team plays to his strenghts, we just do basically the opposite. Don't see how we do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 All about the way we attack tbh. Mitro is a good striker when a team plays to his strenghts, we just do basically the opposite. Don't see how we do He thrives on crosses into the box. We should be hammering the box with early crosses. Instead our wide players walk around a bit when we're countering and then pass it back to Colback. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I don't see it at all tbh, I think a lot of this is derived from the fact he's a 'football hardman.' He's really good at holding off defenders but he's never looked a player who's going to thrive off balls in to me, no more than any other striker anyway. His technique heading the ball looks good like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 It's basically the only way he scored at Anderlecht. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I dont have problem if we risk a relegation to develop a world class striker who will lead our lines for the next 10 years. I am ok with that. I just cant accept we paid the cost and sell him 2 yrs later just for a few m profits, which i know that fat cunt would do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Swift Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 The goals will come. He gets himself into good positions every match and gets chances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorin Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 He just needs to hit the net, give him some FA cup time or whatever and boost his confidence. Should be good. Would also be better if we actually gave him time to get in the box and make some runs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzza Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I dont have problem if we risk a relegation to develop a world class striker who will lead our lines for the next 10 years. I am ok with that. I just cant accept we paid the cost and sell him 2 yrs later just for a few m profits, which i know that fat c*** would do. Doesn't have the pace to become the above. Somebody quoted the Big Dunc "one in five" goal type average whilst looking good but flattering to deceive... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 All about the way we attack tbh. Mitro is a good striker when a team plays to his strenghts, we just do basically the opposite. Don't see how we do He thrives on crosses into the box. We should be hammering the box with early crosses. Instead our wide players walk around a bit when we're countering and then pass it back to Colback. When we do get crosses in he almost never looks like scoring, and getting crosses in from the right is basically our only game plan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Clearly a good player with bags of potential but still a young lad trying to get to grips with a new league. To make him the main man at this stage is a hindrance to his career and does no one any good. Typical of this club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettNUFC Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Look at his goal in the CL for Anderlecht against Arsenal. Amazing what could happen if we whipped more crosses in. I didn't watch Liverpool/West Ham but seen the highlights and Carroll had 3/4 good chances with his head from crosses. Mitro is starved of decent service. Lucky to get on the end of one or two crosses a game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 One of the reasons he's lucky to get on the end of one or two crosses in a game is that he can't get above defenders to head the ball. That goal against Arsenal is the last minute, Arsenal's defence is completely stretched and he's in a race with Mertesacker to get to the ball first, good header like but that situation won't come up very often. Andy Carroll is different because he has a massive leap and is also a bit taller so you can put in any kind of cross and Carroll will probably get on the end of it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettNUFC Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 For Carroll's goal the only player he had to beat in the air was his own player. Then he did rise about the centre back from 6 yards out but it was a poor header. Had another couple on top of that. It's good quality crossing, then you notice up the other end Benteke isn't on the highlights because he's not getting the crosses Carroll is receiving. Benteke is getting a lot of stick at Liverpool but if you don't play to his strengths, you're not going to get the best of him and it's not really him who can be blamed imo. Mitro's goal against Arsenal completed their comeback in that game. Where was our crossing putting pressure on their centre backs who were clearly struggling to handle Mitro all game in the air? Only one I can think of is where De Jong showed a touch of class to even get a shot on target from what was a poor delivery. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 If Andy gets a run on a player he's won the header. Mitro is rarely on the move when attacking a header. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 He'll be a dangerous player in about 3 years time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shintonsghost Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 The goals will come. He gets himself into good positions every match and gets chances. how long are you prepared to wait? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettNUFC Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 If Andy gets a run on a player he's won the header. Mitro is rarely on the move when attacking a header. Rarely on the move? He's always looking to get runs or pointing to where he wants it. Just the cross rarely comes in or when it does it's a poor. Tbf it did against Villa but his header was awful, the movement however was very good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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