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11 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Barnes isn't really predictable, he's two-footed and can score goals from both sides. 

 

He's more of a wide forward where ASM is a winger. Maybe that's what we are looking for. 

 

Very few players in the PL focus primarily on beating people in 1-v-1 situations. Even if they do it's more a quick drop of the shoulder to get a pass or shot away.

 

Aye, I didn't mean so much the individual attributes he has in front of goal (he clearly is an excellent finisher who can pick up goalscoring positions well) but moreso what his weaknesses as a player (1v1, vision to unlock a deep defence etc) could mean for our patterns of play when attacking as a team. It's an open question, because his strengths and weaknesses both have to be looked at in the context of the players around him and our style of play as a collective, but it's a debate worth having, even though Howe and the recruitment team have earned our trust. 

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14 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

What elite teams and players have offences built on 1-2s?

I mean "one twos" is a massive oversimplification, intentionally. What you're talking about in tactical terms is creating overloads or getting players into critical areas of space and having the ability to exploit them.

 

So yeah, fucking all of them actually.

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56 minutes ago, mrmojorisin75 said:

Our entire offence is built on one twos and getting into space between/behind FB and CB. Barnes is Mig for the left.

 

Can people not see this?

Attack not offence . This isnt American football 

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Great bit of business this, clearly ASM isnt the type of player Howe can rely on to play the way he wants and would become a bench option. Makes sense to cash in on him.

 

Barnes will be excellent i think and fits in with the way we play these days

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Think this guy will get alot of goals for us considering how many chances we wasted last season. 

Happy to get him if Howe thinks its best to get rid of ASM. The funds from the sale will hopefully allow room for signing a more attacking left back aswell.

 

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7 minutes ago, Displayname said:

Think this guy will get alot of goals for us considering how many chances we wasted last season. 

Happy to get him if Howe thinks its best to get rid of ASM. The funds from the sale will hopefully allow room for signing a more attacking left back aswell.

 

 

Weirdly a lot of those chances were created by ASM for a midfielder to miss :lol:

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5 minutes ago, mrmojorisin75 said:

I mean "one twos" is a massive oversimplification, intentionally. What you're talking about in tactical terms is creating overloads or getting players into critical areas of space and having the ability to exploit them.

 

So yeah, fucking all of them actually.


It wasn’t an oversimplification. You meant it. And now you’re trying to make it sound relevant. 

 

Our wide players don’t have the quality to do that. Almiron is technically limited. So while he has good movement and pace, he’s dependent on Bruno and Trips finding him with excellent passes that give him time and space. On the left Joe’s combine well but sometimes there’s a lack of ideas and creativity. Can’t speak too much on Gordon, he also seems to like a give and go, uses both feet but doesn’t have ‘his moves’. 
 

From our 4, there’s not anyone that demands the ball like a Diaz, Grealish, Saka, Mitoma etc. 

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1 hour ago, mrmojorisin75 said:

Our entire offence is built on one twos and getting into space between/behind FB and CB. Barnes is Mig for the left.

 

Can people not see this?


Exactly. Howe doesn’t expect creativity from the wide forwards; he expects goals. Bruno, Trippier, and now Tonali are our playmakers.

 

 

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Just now, Deuce said:


Exactly. Howe doesn’t expect creativity from the wide forwards: he expects goals. Bruno, Trippier, and now Tonali are our playmakers.

 

I think you can even add Schar to that. 

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1 minute ago, The College Dropout said:


It wasn’t an oversimplification. You meant it. And now you’re trying to make it sound relevant. 

 

Our wide players don’t have the quality to do that. Almiron is technically limited. So while he has good movement and pace, he’s dependent on Bruno and Trips finding him with excellent passes that give him time and space. On the left Joe’s combine well but sometimes there’s a lack of ideas and creativity. Can’t speak too much on Gordon, he also seems to like a give and go, uses both feet but doesn’t have ‘his moves’. 
 

From our 4, there’s not anyone that demands the ball like a Diaz, Grealish, Saka, Mitoma etc. 

are you mad/blind? a lot of almirons goals last year came from one-twos...

 

Fulham (a)

Southampton (a)

Leicester (a)

Wolves (h)

plus a few screamers

 

 

Just off the top of my head 

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19 minutes ago, Cookie1892 said:

are you mad/blind? a lot of almirons goals last year came from one-twos...

 

Fulham (a)

Southampton (a)

Leicester (a)

Wolves (h)

plus a few screamers

 

 

Just off the top of my head 

 

It's actually one of Almiron's greatest qualities, when he gives the ball he's immediately darting into space for the return, and he does it at pace as well. If he had a bit more venom in his shooting he would be one of the best players in the league.

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25 minutes ago, Cookie1892 said:

are you mad/blind? a lot of almirons goals last year came from one-twos...

 

Fulham (a)

Southampton (a)

Leicester (a)

Wolves (h)

plus a few screamers

 

 

Just off the top of my head 

All of those were before January, no?

 

Teams clocked that move and Almirons output slowed.  I’ve grown to like Almiron.  His pressing is the gold standard,he makes good runs.  But he’s limited technically and that will always limit his ceiling. He has to run around the ball to control it a particular way with his left. There’s a limit to the type of attack you can build around Almiron because the lad is limited. 
 

 

Contrast that with Isak.  The ceiling is so high because the lad can do so much. 

 

 

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Barnes shooting technique with both feet from inside and outside of the box makes me think he’s far less a pass and move into space and hit with his preferred foot player like Almiron generally has shown. Barnes is someone who you can’t show a specific way because he isn’t 1 footed, and his assists looked pretty damn good when he had a settled CF playing regularly. We will have Isak and Wilson. Dumbing down his game is a bit classic NO as you can get. 
 

Elite sides exploit space through passing and movement. 

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17 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

It was very interesting to see Tonali making the underlapping version of the Miggy run last night. Longstaff does that a bit but obviously rarely does anything when the ball comes to him. 

 

And Longstaff ended up in so many goal scoring positions last season, so that's great news!

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14 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said:

If we get Barnes and Liveramento then that will be 8 English players bought for our squad since the takeover - wonder if any other Prem team is close to that in the same period of time? 

Eddie Howe's white army.

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1 hour ago, Orphanage said:

Attack not offence . This isnt American football 

Also Micah Richards can fuck off with his stupid 'turnovers' analysis the daft cunt

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30 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said:

If we get Barnes and Liveramento then that will be 8 English players bought for our squad since the takeover - wonder if any other Prem team is close to that in the same period of time? 

 

16 minutes ago, The Butcher said:

Eddie Howe's white army.

Lascelles, Lewis, Murphy, Hayden, Willock and Wilson want a word... 

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