Keanes an odd case as he's no physical coward, wins plenty of confrontations, just has no concentration or leadership skills. No surprise his best run came in a back four of CBs without crowds and with Mina to bark the orders
Not to make excuses, but these people are human, imagine playing footy in a Stadium and sometimes 40k people are calling you rubbish and thats just Home games!
Not making excuses, they are well paid sportsmen.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
When Goat and Carlin would endlessly post about:
"Big Mick Keggers"
How amazing he was and that anyone who couldnt see it was stupid.
I remember this well.
Keane is better with a strong leader next to him in an ultra defensive deep setup.
Ive never thought he was any good in anything other than that setup.
In that system i think you could pluck a South American 'hard man' out of a team and tell them to boot everything, head and tackle anything nearby away and they'd do as good a job.
Crikey. Is that true. Unbelievable Jeff.
Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
We should actually have won down there,it was in fact a very decent performance.
Excuses and reasons are different things mate, looking for answers with an open mind is the right approach
chippy1722
Player Valuation: £35m
Does that mean great in defence and hoofball in attack.
RufusCat
Player Valuation: £225k
Could be,in part, that we have put the 3rd most crosses into the box
….i expect the vast majority of aerial duels are won by central defenders. Saying that, DCL would get on the end of plenty of goal kicks and even at the near post defending corners.
DualityNSNO
How much for the pair?
"Vast majority" - we play hoofball mate, pretty easy stat to check.
Tarks is 1st only because DCL missed a game a few weeks ago. DCL led the league for about the entire season otherwise.
Anyway,
1. Tarkowski - 143 won
2. DLC - 139 won
Blue peter
Player Valuation: £25m
I saw that 663 and thought we had a new suitor
…..interesting but I think you’d need to factor in all defenders against all attackers rather than Tarkowski v DCL. I expect Branthwaite has a fair number, probably more than Beto. It’s difficult when lots of Tarkowski’s will be from attacking dead balls.
No doubt we have gone long, it’s what happens when there’s a serious lack of passing quality in the team.
DualityNSNO
How much for the pair?
We could have had Messi in midfield and we'd still hoof.
Beto's barely played, DCL's played every living minute, and his entire job was to knock down headers to Doucoure of all people.
