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Son Heung-Min
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awesome dawson
Mitchell Thomas
He middled that volley.
braineclipse
Willie Hall
Space to run into, chances to finish. The latter part has been more inconsistent this season than it has in a long time. He was always going to return to that, very good to see him showing that he's well on his way.
On creating that space. Sure, Kane dropping deep is part of the solution. But it's not enough. It's just about the most obvious and well known plan in English football at the moment. Sometimes teams will be able to stop that when they know it will happen. Mixing it up with Son dropping deeper, Kane further forward seems like a good idea to me. But mostly we need other players progressing the ball with quality into and in the final third. So that if teams stop that Kane to Son pathway we can exploit the space they create and find other ways to attack
We tried Kane drops deep, Son runs in behind plan A, plan B give it to Moura to run at three players approach. Got dreadful and got Mourinho the sack.
Lemonade Money
Steffen Freund
He was on fire, some of his turn of pace with the ball was electrifying.
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
We need kulu to mix it up and create space by drawing players onto him.
Kulu in the team spreads the threat.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Interesting that because Son has made a what most seem to agree is a poor start with only three goals in his first nine PL appearances so far it was deemed necessary to change the thread title.
Interesting because he'd scored only four from his first TEN PL appearances last season! Just one more than from his first nine this time around.
Yet last season he still ended up sharing the Golden Boot with 23 PL goals. The same number as Salah, whose total included no less than five from the penalty spot.
On this basis I fear we have treated him rather shabbily. He surely deserves to have his thread title restored to what it was:
Heung-Min Son, Golden Boot Winner
Interesting because he'd scored only four from his first TEN PL appearances last season! Just one more than from his first nine this time around.
Yet last season he still ended up sharing the Golden Boot with 23 PL goals. The same number as Salah, whose total included no less than five from the penalty spot.
On this basis I fear we have treated him rather shabbily. He surely deserves to have his thread title restored to what it was:
Heung-Min Son, Golden Boot Winner
MKSpur
Christian Ziege
He scored 0 goals when it was that title and it was only changed to that after he's had his golden boot season. If it ain't broke don't fix it!
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Well I think it's just sad that our leading scorer from open play last season gets it in the neck the moment as he has a barren spell. Over season 2021-22 NO other player in the PL had as consistent a scoring record as Son.
Let's also remember that Kane scored just one in his first 13 PL games last season. Don't recall his thread title being changed as a consequence. Yet already he has eight from his first nine in the Premier League this time around.
Point being that every striker ever known (bar maybe that freak at the Emirates) has had long non-scoring runs. Even Alan Shearer once went nine England internationals on the trot without bulging the net.
Frankly Sonny deserves better from us.
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MKSpur
Christian Ziege
I think you may be replying to a different point - I superstitiously asked for the thread title to be changed back to what it was while he was going through his barren spell. I don't think I am giving it to him in the neck.
That said advocating for him or Kane to be rotated or rested isn't disregarding their previous once in a generation contributions for us, it's partly to help increase their career, avoid injury, be fit at the end of the season and help us succession plan for their eventual departures. In the past we have had little option but to flog them but with Richarlison and Kulu we now have viable alternatives.
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Gerry Armstrong
He middled that volley.
Noticeable how he took it so high up, above the knee, very difficult technique executed perfectly.
AjaxDeSuperYids
Drama queen
I think you have touched upon something very important with regards Kane dropping deep and making things happen for Son and co. I think its particularly important considering the system we use of 343 and the limitations of our first choice midfielders. They are good players peh and bentancur but they are not amazing world class players which would be needed to make the system work without Kane dropping back into the AM sort of position.
System being the crucial word as its failed to work multiple times this season most notably in the first half against leicester where we simply couldn't keep the ball for more than two passes and a decent side would have scored at least 5 goals against us during that half.
Kane not dropping back could be the key reason why to the naked eye we have regressed this season compared to the second half of last season. I wonder if for this season Conte wanted to see Kane further up more often.
As you said Kulu helps of course (and he has hardly played this season) but I don’t think Son should be dropping back much as he has a tendency to mess up the final pass by at best playing it too far ahead or behind someone, or at worst playing awful passes out of play.
The mourinho comment is also interesting as after the dreadful opening day loss at home to everton town Kane then began to drop deep and we played some sexy stuff, scored multiple goals and went top. After the freak wham comeback (fuelled by sanchez being sanchez and an alien equaliser) mourinho seemed to overreact and become overly cautious which led to awful football and narrow wins at best and ultimately the whole thing fell apart but not because Kane was dropping deep now and again.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Not aimed at you, @MKSpur - your posts are usually fair-minded and balanced. Also I can see that to an extent the thread title was meant more tongue in cheek. But it was changed off the back of some very harsh and in my view unfair criticism, given that ALL strikers have a barren spell from time to time. Not saying he wasn't due some criticism, just that in my view it went over the top with certain posters.
Lemonade Money
Steffen Freund
Don't remember anything being made of that at the time?
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
People talk about missing Deki and we do, massively but without stating the obvious we are missing Son on form, one of the massive issues we have currently is we are almost carrying two losses, Deki and Son
We need him to snap out of this period of bad touch and bad decisions and quickly. We need his 20 goals and 10 assists a year
We need him to snap out of this period of bad touch and bad decisions and quickly. We need his 20 goals and 10 assists a year
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Majority of his goals came when kulu joined….
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
He was getting 15 goals a season before that, regardless we need him firing again
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
He was but he was “streaky”
Today he looked more like himself in that first half
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
Games v Goals - Thats not streaky its important, we need this player back and quick
