#7 | Raheem Sterling - 2020/21 Performances

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The issue with Sterling imo is the fact we don't have a clinical striker. On what planet can Raheem Sterling be relied upon to be the main threat for an elite team? His numbers are comparable with other very good wingers and, with a top finisher in the side, it can disguise his weaknesses which I think happened in 17-18 and 18-19 when we had Kun fit and firing.
 
itisrising said:
The issue with Sterling imo is the fact we don't have a clinical striker. On what planet can Raheem Sterling be relied upon to be the main threat for an elite team? His numbers are comparable with other very good wingers and, with a top finisher in the side, it can disguise his weaknesses which I think happened in 17-18 and 18-19 when we had Kun fit and firing.
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I don’t want him to disguise his weaknesses, I want him to get rid of them
 
Saw this on reddit -

15 players have missed at least 9 big chances in the Prem. This is how clinical they are with their big chances:

- Che Adams has scored 2 of 14 big chances (14%)

- Chris Wood has scored 3 of 17 (18%)

- Werner has scored 4 of 20 (20%)

- Firmino has scored 4 of 15 (27%)

- Martial has scored 4 of 14 (29%)

- Bamford has scored 7 of 24 (29%)

- Sterling has scored 6 of 18 (33%)

- Mane has scored 6 of 17 (35%)

- Rashford has scored 5 of 14 (36%)

- Watkins has scored 8 of 19 (42%)

- Son has scored 10 of 20 (50%)

- Calvert-Lewin has scored 11 of 22 (50%)

- Salah has scored 11 of 22 (50%)

- Vardy has scored 12 of 24 (50%)

- Kane has scored 10 of 19 (53%)
 
domalino said:
Saw this on reddit -

15 players have missed at least 9 big chances in the Prem. This is how clinical they are with their big chances:

- Che Adams has scored 2 of 14 big chances (14%)

- Chris Wood has scored 3 of 17 (18%)

- Werner has scored 4 of 20 (20%)

- Firmino has scored 4 of 15 (27%)

- Martial has scored 4 of 14 (29%)

- Bamford has scored 7 of 24 (29%)

- Sterling has scored 6 of 18 (33%)

- Mane has scored 6 of 17 (35%)

- Rashford has scored 5 of 14 (36%)

- Watkins has scored 8 of 19 (42%)

- Son has scored 10 of 20 (50%)

- Calvert-Lewin has scored 11 of 22 (50%)

- Salah has scored 11 of 22 (50%)

- Vardy has scored 12 of 24 (50%)

- Kane has scored 10 of 19 (53%)
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Not nearly good enough
 
mosssideblue said:
Not nearly good enough
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It's funny, because I'd actually say this shows he's not far off. 2 big chances go in across the whole season and he's up there with Son and Vardy and Kane who the anti-Sterling brigade consider to be miles better than him.

Plenty of people have complained that Sterling's not as clinical as Mane in the past.
 
I care about missed chances that cost us points, or knock us out of cups. Sterling has been culpable of this a few times. However, every striker/winger in the history of the game has missed chances. So I wouldn't dwell too much on those, no matter how much his misses cost us a famous title win against our rivals, or cost us against Lyon.

I am more concerned about his apparent inability to control and kick a football properly. This is not normal.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
"big chances" is subjective.
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No it's literally not.

The whole point of xG is that it's an objective measure of how likely a chance is to be scored based on millions of previous shots by tens of thousands of players with things like the foot you shoot with and opposition pressure, goalkeeper positioning factored in to the better models.

Big chances are based on xG - I think it's above 0.5.

So the one thing it's not is subjective.
 
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