Nikica Jelavic

[Tubey]

An intelligent run that creates space means nothing without a finish to take advantage of it, so you're wrong (yet again)

Anyone who knows anything about football reading that sentence now knows you're a complete clown. I can't even sugarcoat that sentence.

 

[chicoazul]

I'd rather have Stracquilarsi up front than him right now.

 

[ah11984]

Stracqualursi was never bullied out of anything by anyone.

I was thinking more about the current performances Jelavic is putting in - lots of work rate, woeful touch. lack of goals.

 

[Goat]

I'd rather have Stracquilarsi up front than him right now.

Go and have a lie down lad.

 

[chicoazul]

Go and have a lie down lad.

I mean it mate. At least Stracquilarsi bothered the centre halves, despite being mostly turd.

Jelavic needs resting for a while.

 

[Azzurri]

Because a good run isn't anything to do with speed. Attacking movement is all about intelligence, not physicality.

Think Ruud van Nistelrooy. He wasn't rapid, but he had some of the best movement in the world. He didn't take every chance he had either.

Wayne Rooney moves sublimely off the ball, but he went through a horrible barren patch where people at one stage thought his best days had gone.

There's hundreds of examples. I'm not saying Jelavic was outstanding, because his first touch was off on occasion etc. but all I'm saying is that it's simply wrong to say he was "out of his depth against Oldham". People are basically going "Jelavic didn't score, ergo he was crap". Just isn't the reality.

And I'm not some sort of mental Jelavic zealot who's constantly backing him either.

You don't have to talk to me like I'm a 7 year old and you're Jose Mourinho. I know more than enough about how to play football. It's to do with both. You need a bit of pace and good reflexes to get in front of a defender and intelligence to peel off at the right moment. Sometimes you need both.


Saying 'Jelavic didn't score ergo he was crap' is completely wrong, yes, but all I'm saying is that you can make 50 good runs every game but they count for nothing unless you score from some of them.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Anyone who knows anything about football reading that sentence now knows you're a complete clown. I can't even sugarcoat that sentence.

Lol your usual MO appears, look to degrade the opinion of the poster & avoid answering the actual point made with some childish inane deflection.

Either challenge the post or pipe down love

 

[chicoazul]

It will be interesting to see what the various media outlets award Jelavic in their ratings tomorrow.

Watching that was one of the worst Everton player performances I've seen all season from him. I'm just saying he needs dropped but by Christ he's stinking the place out right now.

 

[Bigmaclad]

Anyone who knows anything about football reading that sentence now knows you're a complete clown. I can't even sugarcoat that sentence.

Urm what?

That sentence was completely logical. I think if you look up the rules of football you need to score goals to win games, without anyone to finish you can't score goals, and therefore win games.

 

[micknick]

He needs one to come off his shin and wrong foot the keeper to get a bit of confidence.

We know hes a good player, those finishes last season were deadly and you dont just lose that. Something has happened and the only thing I can see it is confidence- he came in last season having nothing to lose and no pressure. He did well and all of a sudden everyone expects it.

He has been dropped a couple of times- and I think it may do him a bit of good being out of the limelight for a while. I am totally sure if he gets one or two then he will get his mojo bacj, just hope its sooner rather than later

 

[toffeechris]

what price jelavic scores the winner in this years cup final!!!!!!

 

[daulbo9]

He leads the World in Offsides and Handballs

 

[Stend]

He looks as though he's wearing wellies full of cement. I really feel for him because he has absolutely zero pace and he's trying to play off the shoulder of the last defender. Is he really this slow? His touch just seems to be well of at the moment. Either he isn't fully fit or his head really isn't in it.

 

[Carlito]

I really am desperate for Jelavic to get back amongst the goals but I'm losing faith. Even against League One opposition he looked like a pudding.

The Fellaini argument makes sense to me though. He doesn't move defenders around and open up space for the striker like Cahill did, which could explain why Jelavic has looked exhausted for months. Get Fellaini back into midfield and take away the easy option of launching balls forward for him to bring down and lay-off. There needs to be more variety in attack.

I'd love to see Everton bring in a proper playmaker who'll float between midfield and attack. Jelavic would thrive off playing in front of someone with an eye for a killer pass. I can't go on watching him try and get on the end of hopeful balls over the top much longer. It's like watching a hippo trying to to escape from a pack of lions.

 

[Julian Carax]

One thing I'd credit with Jelavic at the moment is his humility and team spirit.

Tonight he was bad, I mean everything from the way he did his laces to the ill-kept mop on his head, the boy created a goddamn stink that even the politest most courtiest girlfired wouldn't ignore. He was as rank as your sent box the morning after a hedonistic cocktail of illtimed confidence and cheap booze. Man was he rough.

Yet the lad holds his head up, communicates well and celebrates every goal like it was his.

He's lost the slot but he's still a blue, and what a blue. In twenty years time he'll still be here, still in Liverpool complaining in Lulu's because the Cains is off.