His dead ball delivery was horrific.
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I don't have a particular dog in this fight, but it seems disingenuous to use his ability to score inside the 6 yard box as an argument that he belongs when literally no one has suggested that he isn't a great finisher. The argument is that he offers nothing elsewhere on the pitch and limits the team's versatility as there are some models of play which simply can't be made to work with his limitations, and that losing his close range finishing ability would be more than made up for by the attributes a different player and system would bring and the improvements it would bring from other players, and that we have plenty of players with more than enough ability to finish those close range opportunities that he has built his reputation on.
Actually, maybe I do have a dog here.
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Can we all at least agree that that lumbering carthorse Burn should be nowhere near the team?
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Seconded.
Lampost II. It's back, and this time it's really bad.
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The second goal was a great example of this. Great cross, makes the goal for whoever is there. It's the far post attacking wide players ball. Someone else makes the No.9 run across the penalty spot, that the number nine should make. Kane is back post stood alongside our wide attacker, who defers to Kane to let him take the header.
In doing so we have taken three people, to take up the positions of two. One of whom is the midfielder (the run across the penalty spot) who could otherwise be positioned to stop early transition on a save or on a rebound. One of whom is the far wide player, doing exactly the correct thing, but who is totally out of the game.
Okay, it doesn't matter because it goes in. They wont all go in. Some sides will be good enough to take the attritional advantage against an out of position midfield. The extra energy required for the two out of the game midfielders recovery runs might have a cost over a long extra time game in the heat. If one doesn't have to make that strikers run, they can hold for a save, a rebound, or a ball back across....and to slow transition to let the wide player get back in a more measured fashion.
I want my striker to be making the right runs. Not fucking goalhanging to pad stats against minows.
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Albania are the next best team in the group!
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I understand that there are far more educated scholars of the game than me, but I repeatedly watch Burn and don't get it.
He was sent off last weekend for simply being slow and ponderous - it was the most easily-anticipated second yellow you'll ever see. There's no need to apply any clever tactics as a manager when up against Newcastle - get the small, quick, skilful lad to run him at every opportunity.
What he's doing troubling the England back line is baffling.
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He's very tall, so is an exceptional threat when we have set pieces. You could go back four years, substitute 'Maguire' for 'Burn', and the conversation is identical.
Possible alternatives? Structure set pieces around movement instead of first contact wins under a hung up ball, have a striker who can head the ball.
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He's actually no slouch in a straight line, but despite having never challenged a carthorse to a race I assume they aren't either. Like most players his size though Burn can't turn and has a tendency to get grabby, stick out a go go gadget leg, or do something else suitably unfootball to make up for the fact that he's on his heels as soon as the opponent changes direction.
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In some quarters he's also considered a left back. It's not a quarter of the pitch I'd want to be defending two deadlegged men down, over a hundred and twenty minutes, in the heat, against a swarm of bees.
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In summation, Kane makes the right runs to score. Yet again.
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You say Moreto and I say Morato...
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Against. Moldova.
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So have Real Madrid.
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They are both great players. Wharton looked a bit more nervous than Anderson on full debut. He was also playing a different system with Stones pushing forward and giving the ball away a lot.
But when Anderson came on, he looked so assured. And the players have real confidence in him. More so than Wharton. Tuchel is clear that Anderson is his number 6.
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Wharton, 75 minutes, 56 touches, 46 passes.
Anderson, 15 minutes, 57 touches, 54 passes.
