Solihull Samba Boys said:gooney said:Tevez is an awesome player....his weakness is he's not very tactical in his play. As a lone striker, he comes far too deep to collect the ball and that makes it harder for his team mates to find space. sure his numbers are there for everyone to see, but is he hindering the other two forwards to get in great positions as he drops deep and the defenders can push forward. if he mixed his game a bit more and drag defenders with him, there would be more space for others
His dropping deep was frustrating, that's what I forgot to add, but you know what you get with Carlos Tevez. I think Carlos and Mario would work excellently together because Mario hangs around the penalty area a lot more and looks to play on the shoulder at times. On Tuesday he always looked to get the ball over the top of the Villa defence. Today when Tevez dropped deep we had only Yaya in the box to aim for, allowing an energetic Blackpool side to regroup.
However, cast your minds back to the 2007/08 season. Rooney and Tevez were the recognised strikers over the road in Stretford, and both said players love to drop deep to get the ball. At the start of that season United struggled for goals and people questioned whether the rags would score enough with this partnership/type of strikers. Then a certain enigmatic forward stepped up to the plate. A young man who had previously been vilified for his petulance, inconsistency, and low workrate. Everyone, though, could see he had great potential, and the guy himself knew it. Cocky twat. This guy loved to cut in from out wide and was/is a sublime finisher. Could take a cool penalty and a mean free kick too. He scored 42 goals in all competitions that season, and the rest is history.
Mario and Tevez could be a fantastic partnership, they've already linked up well on occasions this season despite hardly playing together. I just fear we might not see them together after this summer, I think it would be a loss to football as a spectacle.
and whose fault is that......