#9 | Gabriel Jesus - 2020/21 Performances

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bondsman said:
Blue tinted specs? Surely those are yours re: Jesus. Aguero has missed most of the last year with injury. You are right over the last decade we have relied on Aguero. God help us if we are relying on Jesus from hear on in fucking hopeless against the good teams in big games oh except for that Madrid game I’m sure you’ll reference. Brazilian Dickov at best the lad though not sure he’d have scored the crucial goal Paul did
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Not at all. You will find all I am talking about is Jesus putting a shift in and trying his hardest. Have I said he's a top finisher, world class at dribbling or the best passer? No.

I have literally said Pep plays him to try and pull teams around to create space and allow others to create and score. You can argue all you want if that's what we should be doing but that's what it is. Jesus will get his share of goals, the tap ins, the 4th in a 4-1 win etc. Then you get perfect storms like the Madrid game. That being said, does Jesus score them two Sterling missed. Probably. But then again he probably wouldn't have even been in that position.
 
domalino said:
I'd put more money on him winning another pair of CL games for us like he did vs. Real.
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Don’t forget the goal he scored against Southampton in the 91 minute
I find it very hard to accept your defending of a Brazilian no9 by referring to a chip over the keeper goal. If it hadn’t been the goal that took us to 100 then it wouldn’t get a mention, and as for the Madrid game away was that header really clinical or a goalkeeping error?
Let’s just stop the tiresome defending of him now and let’s move him on and bring in a CF
 
I appreciate all that he does to move people around, create space, clever layoffs, and his work on the press - but when he’s on the break or gets a solid feed he almost never drives straight at the goal, nor does he set himself up in the first place with a good angle to do so. It’s maddening. And esp in big games against opposition that will actually venture to play, we may have opportunities ourselves on the counter and he (and a few of the others) look hopeless in those situations.

it’s why, for all the virtues of jesus, I think people are justified in wanting a truly lethal striker. Sometimes you just need someone who can dominate the space and put their laces through it with the one or two chances that will fall to them and them alone. It’s why they’re such decisive players.
 
I don't know what his true position is, but he isn't a 20 goal a season striker. Think he needs someone next to him. He doesn't have the positional awareness of Aguero which makes KDB a waste of time.

I think Jesus is vital for champions League away games or big away games in general though.
 
A few people have mentioned that Madrid away game... he played as a left forward in that game, not a #9. Bernardo played at #9.
 
mccity said:
I know most City fans despise the fella, and take every opportunity to point out how bad he is, but I'm grateful the club are more level headed and understand the value he brings to the team as we push for success on multiple fronts this season.
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“Most City fans?!” “Despise?!” Seriously?!
 
mosssideblue said:
On the wings, I would suggest Mahrez and Jesus would be first choice.
Torres still adapting to us and Sterling is well, Sterling.
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Torres surely got to get more starts,but like you say probably next season,Sterling will be going nowhere,as he's Pep's favourite,Mahrez has come to lately,and will end up staying no doubt as well.

Jesus could well become surplus,or if moved to a wider position will not get as many starts as he currently does,and for bearing that in mind,with limited opportunities the exit door could become a bit wider.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
“Most City fans?!” “Despise?!” Seriously?!
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I was about to quote on that but you beat me to it mate. Talk about a broad sweeping statement lol.

Fans on an internet talking about the inefficiencies of a player(Jesus in this case) does not mean they despise him or any City player, far from it and defo too strong a word to be banded about on any current City player. I for one am critical of Jesus as I have been about several players in the last 12 months or so. Jesus, Stones, Rodri, Mahrez and Sterling have all received criticism (rightly or wrongly) but most blues are fuckin' delighted for a player to come good and be proved wrong, I know I am. Jesus frustrates the fuck out of me. Moments of sublime skill are great to see but seeing him on his arse remonstrating with a referee to claim a soft penalty time and time again winds me up no end.

It's all we and good pulling defenders out of position but it ain't his job to do that, he should be central ready to pounce and take half a chance that could swing the game to a crucial win. I think Jesus is mentally weak and soon as he gave away that soft pen I knew it would affect and greatly nullify his performance yesterday. Peak Aguero would have had a bee in his bonnet and he'd have been wound up to change the situation. How? By channeling his frustrated aggression by bladdering the ball into the fuckin' onion bag, that's how!

It's not as though fans letting of steam of frustration is in the stadium where players can feel being "despised". Lol. But when you pay your money to go through the turnstile and have done for donkeys years I don't think there is anything wrong with venting frustrations on a football forum.

Jesus frustrates me and will continue to do so. Back slapling team tap ins are great but he need to practice net slapping thunderbastards to be convincing as a top striker, something he has in his locker I think somewhere.

Makes me wonder whether he isn't suited to the rough and tumble of this league. Thinking about it I think he'd be a revelation in La Liga or Serie A, and it won't surprise me if he ends up being TBH.
 
ninjamonkey said:
How would the game plan have been any different? We played a slow possession game and they played a 10 man wall and counter with pace game which every person here predicted pre-match, nothing changed at all.

They actually created better chances than us and would have had many more but for some piss poor decision making. they had by far the better opportunities, this wasn't some smash and grab as we've been on the end of in the past they were better.

Their second goal started from their keeper there was no over committal due to us chasing the game, it wasn't a corner with everybody out of position or anything like that it was piss poor defending and a complete lack of energy in midfield allowing for their fatty fullback to walk the ball from their third to the edge of our box unchallenged.

He cost us a penalty he didn't cost us the game.
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Of course it changed things. Being 1-0 down is a completely different situation to a game being all square at 0-0. We looked rattled after that goal for a good 5 minutes or so until we regained some composure.

The way we played would’ve been perfect if the game had been 0-0, but Jesus put us into a situation where we were forced to turn the game around. United wouldn’t have scored if they hadn’t got a first minute penalty.

Other players were also poor but I still think that we wouldn’t have lost this had it not been for that needless and idiotic challenge.
 
I love Gabby's effort and no-one can question his commitment to work hard. However, at the level we aspire to, we need a greedy striker, someone that is going to put the ball in the net 1 out of 2 or 3 chances.

Running around in the first minute giving away a naive penalty is just kids football I'm afraid.

Great lad but not quite good enough, very similar in some respects to Kelechi Ianacho.
 
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