#9 | Gabriel Jesus - 2020/21 Performances

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decmancity said:
Its not what we want from a number 9 but its the minimum you expect in a game, never mind a derby. I will take what Jesus did over he likes of Debruyne, Mahrez and Sterling etc who were all zombies out there today.
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His effort can rarely be faulted ,its just that most of it is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Today he ran around like a slightly irritated teenager looking for his phone.
 
decmancity said:
I want more from the other 9 players on the pitch as well. Jesus is not a 'main' striker, we all know this. Stop judging the lad on it. He spends more time out of the box than in it and if you dont think thats Pep telling him that then you need to watch it again.
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What is he then?
 
nellyonthewing said:
His effort can rarely be faulted ,its just that most of it is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Today he ran around like a slightly irritated teenager looking for his phone.
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Well he was desperate to try and make up for the penalty fuck up so I will admit he was a bit headless today but he kept trying, he made a lot of good runs, setup the Rodri chance and so forth.
 
The collective is greater than the Individual and shock horror, when he has runners behind him who can press and take advantage of the space he creates (Phil, Gundo and Bernardo) we look a better team. Play him with Mahrez and De Bruyne walking about and he looks like a fish out of water.
 
If you think jesus cost us the game today you should probably find a new sport to watch.

We created fuck all for him, there was zero intensity in our game which allowed them to stick 10 men behind the ball and force us to play around the centre circle for the majority of the game.

there was a few times we had chances to counter their counter, he made good runs and the midfield slowed down the ball turned around and passed it back to one of the back 4 allowing their entire team to get back in, with build up like that and a refusal to put crosses in how exactly is he supposed to get involved and make an impact? Stick any striker you want to name upfront today and you'd have got nothing from them either.
 
decmancity said:
I want more from the other 9 players on the pitch as well. Jesus is not a 'main' striker, we all know this. Stop judging the lad on it. He spends more time out of the box than in it and if you dont think thats Pep telling him that then you need to watch it again.
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But his all round play is hardly great is it? He rarely beats a man, average passer, no real pace.
 
Today wasn’t even close to good enough from him. That being said, if we had to keep one of our front three, it is him over those two useless fucks out wide every day of the week.
 
Not good enough full stop. Needs fucking off in the summer and proper strikers signing.
The guy just doesn’t have a goal scoring instinct.
 
Let’s not fall into the Lingard trap of constantly telling ourselves he’s a “young talent” until he’s 27 / 28 (and still calling him one then)

Jesus is getting older by the season, and although he’s still young at 23, as a striker, he should be showing some maturity of the player he is and what he’ll offer long term (especially goal scoring). Aguero did. Heck, many players have shown this at a younger age. Rooney and Kane did from their teens to name but a few.

We’re all thinking it, so I’m gonna say it. He’s simply not good enough for City on current form. But I don’t think it’s his fault - I think he’s been mismanaged. At the moment, it’s like having a false 9 as our main striker and that shouldn’t have been the case with his natural talents

I have some sympathy because he was a winger / wide forward in Brazil before he joined us, and he had the balls to take on defenders, try tricks, have shots. Now, he’s far too unselfish to the extent it makes me nauseous watching. I think he’s been badly managed and could have been in the same bracket as Mbappe on pure skill alone, had he not been persuaded to lap up the “teamwork”, “passing”, “positioning” and all those team focussed ideals. He’s bought into all that a bit too eagerly I’m afraid, and it’s like having no one up front
 
decmancity said:
I want more from the other 9 players on the pitch as well. Jesus is not a 'main' striker, we all know this. Stop judging the lad on it. He spends more time out of the box than in it and if you dont think thats Pep telling him that then you need to watch it again.
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He was shaping up to being a fine main striker in 2017. It wasn’t mentioned once over about a two year period that Jesus isn’t a main striker.

The lad has gone backwards in the box, he was looking like becoming a top box player at one point.
 
bondsman said:
But his all round play is hardly great is it? He rarely beats a man, average passer, no real pace.
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His all round play is great. He plays in a team where Pep doesn't like players losing possession so he isn't going to face up defenders and attempt to dribble constantly yet he still beats players regularly, his linkup and holdup play is very very good, his pace isnt electric I agree but there's enough there.

He's the Bernardo of our attack, he does so much work that goes unnoticed or is dismissed because its not eye catching but he makes the rest of the players around him better because of it and you notice it when he's not there.
 
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