Angelino - 2019/20 Performances

[Delphinho]

Don’t understand why he’s only doing these high crosses all the time when all our attackers are midgets. He was doing tons of hard low crosses in the eredivisie which worked well, hope he does it more often for us. Our best LB imo

 

[domalino]

Had a solid game and Im not bothered how many crossed he puts in because every cross low high puts the opposition under pressure and if cleared its up to us to pick up the clearance and start again.

Yeah, the incessant crossing is clearly a tactic from the coaching staff so complaining about it in player threads is pointless, whether its Mendy or Angelino or KDB or Bernardo, they are being told to do it.

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

Yeah, the incessant crossing is clearly a tactic from the coaching staff so complaining about it in player threads is pointless, whether its Mendy or Angelino or KDB or Bernardo, they are being told to do it.

Very true

 

[It could have been 10]

He was literally in the Eredivise team of the season two years in a row. Once with NAC, who were shite so it was impressive he stood out, the second time with PSV. So no, he wasn't the 2nd best. Also the belittling of the Eredivise is pointless. There are flops from every league in the world. World class players have come from there too, and there's the fact that he played very well in the Champions league.

And that last sentence is just unquestionably not true is it? I get your point, vaguely, but it's also one of the most pointless terms in football in my opinion. It was one that was only ever used tongue in cheek, but people act as if its some kind of gospel. An Aguero stinker where he misses a few sitters (which happens every season because he's human) doesn't suddenly mean the world will ignore 14 years of being amazing does it? He clearly doesn't just become as good as his last game. No one does. They're as good as their last year or two of football. Not one 90 minutes. It's a very narrow way of viewing the game.

If you don't like Angelino as a player, fine, but don't use some mental gymnastics to try and justify it and denigrate his accomplishments and only look at one side of the picture. It's not fair on the lad. All evidence over the last couple of years suggests he's a very promising and talented footballer. A young one too who cares about the club a lot. I don't get the lack of support at all from some. It's weird IMO. We should be wanting this lad to succeed here, not looking for reasons why he isn't good enough so willingly. He cares about this club, he was really cheap and he's harming absolutely no one by being here.

Referring to your last paragraph I find it strange as well. You get some prize dickheads posting on here.

 

[big gaz]

Very true

Ok, so at what point do the players say " why am I putting crosses in the air to our forwards who are little and their defenders are 6ft 2 plus"

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I thought Angelino was decent. Most of Angelo’s crosses were cleared but he contributed to the winner. He also revealed the need to bring on a second striker (to me anyway) because the ball was cleared by the Saints mass defence even when he did find Kun and Silva. His defending is work in progress.

I moved from 107 to 111 at halftime because the bloke behind me wouldn’t stop slagging him off. I tried to explain to the guy that Angelino needed time to settle in and he was starting because other players weren’t fully fit. That didn’t help lol.

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

Ok, so at what point do the players say " why am I putting crosses in the air to our forwards who are little and their defenders are 6ft 2 plus"

They don't pep is the gaffer and he knows what he doing even if our fan's disagree

 

[Blue Llama]

They don't pep is the gaffer and he knows what he doing even if our fan's disagree

Also Angelino wasn't the only one putting high crosses in. And that includes Kev. So why posters are jumping on Angelino is weird.

 

[mccity]

It's nice to have a functioning pair of (conventional) leftbacks for the first time in years.

He's good this kid. Seems to be a decent complement for Mendy's skillset.

 

[ws01]

It's nice to have a functioning pair of (conventional) leftbacks for the first time in years.

He's good this kid. Seems to be a decent complement for Mendy's skillset.

Really?

At their best their skillset's are quite similar, IMO. I wouldn't mind for us to have a more defensive minded LB available in our squad soon.