MSP said:Millwallawayveteran1988 said:cleavers said:Ok 3 then, he won one near the end too.
Wasn't good enough tonight, poor positioning up front, lack of movement, didn't hold it up well enough, yes created our goal, well actually Silva did to be fair, but it was a decent shot. 1 miss, other than that was never in the right place in the box.
I'll credit him when its due, my MoM on Tuesday, today pretty average, and no threat at all.
But Negredo has been zero threat since January so what do we do?
Negredo is beyond awful, he just looked completely stripped of of any confidence. His touch is from Dzeko's worst games, can't control the ball for life of him. So annoying to see such a transformation from earlier season, it cuts the options Pele has heavily.
Not really, its not so much a comparison as it is a deflection.gmckennasell said:pudge said:Came on with 85 mins gone according to the BBC, so 8 mins.gmckennasell said:over 12 minutes with injury time , which is 15% of an average game , the usual idea of bringing a sub on , is to make some sort of effect on the football match , negredo has had a superb 5 months , but he should get the same amount of criticism dzeko recieves on here , when hes not playing well.
People are discussing Edin's performance over 85 mins in the latest game.
If you wish to discuss Negredo's 8 minute cameo it would probably be best for you to find his respective thread.
whilst defending dzekos performance a comparison should be made to negredos recent poor performances , and it isnt best for me to refer to a negredo thread.
Don't mind Pudge, gmck, he won't allow anyone to compare any aspect of Edin's game to other City strikers (at least if it makes him look good or less bad). He's fine if you compare him to a donkey or a lamp-post though (I guess that's fair enough as they don't have their own threads).gmckennasell said:pudge said:Came on with 85 mins gone according to the BBC, so 8 mins.gmckennasell said:over 12 minutes with injury time , which is 15% of an average game , the usual idea of bringing a sub on , is to make some sort of effect on the football match , negredo has had a superb 5 months , but he should get the same amount of criticism dzeko recieves on here , when hes not playing well.
People are discussing Edin's performance over 85 mins in the latest game.
If you wish to discuss Negredo's 8 minute cameo it would probably be best for you to find his respective thread.
whilst defending dzekos performance a comparison should be made to negredos recent poor performances , and it isnt best for me to refer to a negredo thread.
XCaliforniaBlue said:Don't mind Pudge, gmck, he won't allow anyone to compare any aspect of Edin's game to other City strikers (at least if it makes him look good or less bad). He's fine if you compare him to a donkey or a lamp-post though (I guess that's fair enough as they don't have their own threads).gmckennasell said:pudge said:Came on with 85 mins gone according to the BBC, so 8 mins.
People are discussing Edin's performance over 85 mins in the latest game.
If you wish to discuss Negredo's 8 minute cameo it would probably be best for you to find his respective thread.
whilst defending dzekos performance a comparison should be made to negredos recent poor performances , and it isnt best for me to refer to a negredo thread.
Having said that, and while agreeing that Negredo has clearly not been as good as Dzeko recently (not just the 8 minutes today), I didn't think Dzeko played very well today either. I don't buy into the lazy/not trying stuff - he just has good and bad days, like everyone else. I think a lot of playing the lone striker is about good movement (which he did for the goal, but didn't during several other promising moves) and guessing well (like he didn't for many balls into the middle, although some of them were just poor balls into the middle). He made some nice one-touch passes (he does this more than most people realize or acknowledge, and it helps us to break fast), but also gave the ball away too often when he tried to hang on to it for too long.
I thought they should have put Negredo on sooner, and despite Edin's good showing at United, I'd have seriously considered starting Negredo for this game, to give him some confidence and to give Dzeko a rest. We can't just run one striker into the ground during the rest of the run-in, and we can't just cross our fingers and hope that Aguero stays fit once he comes back.
I have no problem with dzeko over negredo right now, and never said I had, just a problem with dzeko's inconsistency, and that's why I'm posting in this thread, he was my MoM on Tuesday, but our worst player today imho, its this that frustrates me, I'm sure its an easy concept to grasp, especially as none of my posts in this thread today mention negredo, until now.Millwallawayveteran1988 said:cleavers said:Ok 3 then, he won one near the end too.gmckennasell said:in the first 10 minutes
Wasn't good enough tonight, poor positioning up front, lack of movement, didn't hold it up well enough, yes created our goal, well actually Silva did to be fair, but it was a decent shot. 1 miss, other than that was never in the right place in the box.
I'll credit him when its due, my MoM on Tuesday, today pretty average, and no threat at all.
But Negredo has been zero threat since January so what do we do?
cleavers said:I have no problem with dzeko over negredo right now, and never said I had, just a problem with dzeko's inconsistency, and that's why I'm posting in this thread, he was my MoM on Tuesday, but our worst player today imho, its this that frustrates me, I'm sure its an easy concept to grasp, especially as none of my posts in this thread today mention negredo, until now.Millwallawayveteran1988 said:cleavers said:Ok 3 then, he won one near the end too.
Wasn't good enough tonight, poor positioning up front, lack of movement, didn't hold it up well enough, yes created our goal, well actually Silva did to be fair, but it was a decent shot. 1 miss, other than that was never in the right place in the box.
I'll credit him when its due, my MoM on Tuesday, today pretty average, and no threat at all.
But Negredo has been zero threat since January so what do we do?
Damocles said:MSP said:Millwallawayveteran1988 said:But Negredo has been zero threat since January so what do we do?
Negredo is beyond awful, he just looked completely stripped of of any confidence. His touch is from Dzeko's worst games, can't control the ball for life of him. So annoying to see such a transformation from earlier season, it cuts the options Pele has heavily.
Nonsense. On his worst performance in a City shirt he still has far better control than Dzeko on an average day.
Damien10 said:Negredo chased down an Arsenal defender within seconds of being on. This was not a Dzeko chase (lazy/not interested) it was a chase with aggression and meaning. His attempted chip at the end of the game summed it up. He chased down what I thought was a lost ball, battled passed the Arsenal defender and attempted a chip. It come to nothing but he almost created something out of nothing. For a big man Dzeko goes into aerial duals in hope that he doesn't get hurt. He looses so many headers and the odd time he does win an header he flicks it out of play. He has no real football brain. And as someone has stated, his touch is very bad, not Premierleague standard. And in Negredos defence, how is the guy ever suppose to regain form when he's given 8 minutes.