#9 | Gabriel Jesus - 2019/20 Performances

[Metalartin]

An off game, apart from the assist and a few spells here and there. I thought his first touch and decision making weren't at their best but that's not his normal game. He is good enough to be City's striker and he will be in my opinion. There is plenty of time for him to come good and he offers plenty to the team when he is on the pitch regardless of scoring or not, so I have plenty of time for him.

Awful penalty either way but how you miss matters not a jot, Sergio has had his own(and Silva) and he's missed plenty of sitters too before we get into that. Ederson going off and Gundogan's mistake resulting in Bravo's sending off are at least equal factors to the penalty miss for this draw.

The one thing Gundogan seems good at is penalties and we don't use him for them when he's on the pitch, I don't get that. It should be either him or KDB for the next penalty.

 

[ws01]

Put your fucking foot through it son.

Sick of all these little taps we're seeing.

 

[cityboy1]

Still think his best posistion is as a winger/wide striker he'll never be as good as aguero as a striker but could easily be a better right winger than mahrez or bernardo silva would give us more opportunities to put bernardo in the middle more aswell so he can get his form back.

 

[jaiguruKun]

He was more interested in looking good than making sure the ball went in, symptomatic of a massive attitude problem.

 

[Ban-jani]

Give it a rest with the "slagging off"remarks. It's a forum and unlike you I happen not to rate him - at least as a striker.
Now you'll tell me he's not a striker - he gives something else to the team. Seems to be the way of excusing his abject finishing.

Utter tripe.

His goal scoring record is great, he holds it up very well and he’s on the money with assists too, see last night.

He can play right across the front three and has filled in very well as a striker.

Aguero has had far worse games than Jesus has last night and yes the penalty was appalling, but Aguero has had some poor ones too, neither of them should take them.

 

[Rolee]

He was more interested in looking good than making sure the ball went in, symptomatic of a massive attitude problem.

How'd you figure that? I think he was waiting for the keeper to move and when he didn't Jesus's indecision caused him to scuff it.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

He was more interested in looking good than making sure the ball went in, symptomatic of a massive attitude problem.

Gabriel Jesus? Attitude problem? Got any actual evidence for that?

 

[BosnianBlue]

He's just not good penalty taker, no need to find any fancy reasons for it. He never was the one. Even those he scored, were mostly barely getting in.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

I never understand those players who dont take a normal run up for penalties....

These start moving, stop moving and shoot types just don't generate any power. The only person I've seen do it well is Mario.

 

[twosips]

I never understand those players who dont take a normal run up for penalties....

These start moving, stop moving and shoot types just don't generate any power. The only person I've seen do it well is Mario.

Jorginho does his little weird hop thing and he's excellent at them. I think subconsciously at least, bad penalty takers try and mimic good ones, but they're crap so it makes no difference.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

He's 22 now and been here nearly three years and can anyone honestly say he is anywhere near ready to be our main striker? He's got the Brazilian flair in bucket loads but his job is to score goals and he just needs too many chances to actually stick one in the net.

Aguero joined us when he was 23, people tend to forget that and he only had his first 20 goal season at 22 for AM.

I'm still confident that Jesus will come good for us, he has technique and a lot of X factor, just needs to start bringing it together.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

Jorginho does his little weird hop thing and he's excellent at them. I think subconsciously at least, bad penalty takers try and mimic good ones, but they're crap so it makes no difference.

Then make the process simpler and coach that shit out of them. The coaches should be saying to him, "here's what we think you should be doing".

 

[domalino]

Then make the process simpler and coach that shit out of them. The coaches should be saying to him, "here's what we think you should be doing".

Yeah I have no idea why we cant coach penalties. Theres obviously techniques that are successful, successful areas to aim for, it's a repeatable action.

 

[twosips]

Yeah I have no idea why we cant coach penalties. Theres obviously techniques that are successful, successful areas to aim for, it's a repeatable action.

Weird innit. If it was that simple though every team would be littered with great penalty takers, and that just doesn't happen at all. Not sure why...maybe it's just not as easy as we think.

 

[domalino]

Weird innit. If it was that simple though every team would be littered with great penalty takers, and that just doesn't happen at all. Not sure why...maybe it's just not as easy as we think.

I think it's one of those things football is just stupidly blind to.

90% of coaches think you can't improve a players' basic technique once they get to a certain age, even though people like Pep have shown it to be nonsense with some high profile cases. It's the same with corners, which are insanely underutilised, but I can at least put that down to having limited time with the entire team to spend coaching them, with penalties you just get 1 or 2 players, a keeper, and a the coach.

 

[mosssideblue]

I think it's one of those things football is just stupidly blind to.

90% of coaches think you can't improve a players' basic technique once they get to a certain age, even though people like Pep have shown it to be nonsense with some high profile cases. It's the same with corners, which are insanely underutilised, but I can at least put that down to having limited time with the entire team to spend coaching them, with penalties you just get 1 or 2 players, a keeper, and a the coach.

I would much rather our penalty taker had natural ability with them rather than trying to teach them something possibly alien to them if that makes sense

 

[domalino]

I would much rather our penalty taker had natural ability with them rather than trying to teach them something possibly alien to them if that makes sense

I don't really care if it's natural ability or coached ability as long as they score 90% of them.

People like Kane didn't come out of the womb with the ability to smash a penalty in the top corner every time. It comes about through practice, and looking at where penalties get saved.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Weird innit. If it was that simple though every team would be littered with great penalty takers, and that just doesn't happen at all. Not sure why...maybe it's just not as easy as we think.

When yer in the nets the goal seems like the opening to the Channel Tunnel; when yer taking one the goal looks like a cat flap!

 

[cookster]

Yeah I have no idea why we cant coach penalties. Theres obviously techniques that are successful, successful areas to aim for, it's a repeatable action.

When was the last time we lost a penalty shoot out. Not sure there's a current team that had a better record.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

When was the last time we lost a penalty shoot out. Not sure there's a current team that had a better record.

To be fair, I think a big part of that is how well our goalies are all prepared by the coaching staff. Caballero, Bravo, Ederson and Muric have all pulled off heroics for us when facing penalties.