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How is it criminal to play arguably our player of the season in his best position? Also Tella is decent but he wasn't exactly undroppable last season, especially in attacking mid

Seems like a very arbitrary timescale

It's been two games, seems a bit early to be claiming victory on this one. I also claimed Livra was very good and I seem to remember your alter ego disagreed with that so...

Oba was constantly injured too tbf

I guess the explanation is here. He was much better as a forward than as an AM last season and with Redmond playing well atm, Broja on a scoring streak, Armstrong being our biggest summer signing, and Che having important qualities like passing and hold up which Tella doesn't possess, he just isn't on the pecking order.

I don't think he is miles better than Elyounoussi personally. Probably better than Theo but Ralph seemingly disagrees.

We were unlucky imo, Redmond challenging Djenepo for worst finish of the season. Shame no JWP as would have been nice to line up with him next to Diallo when they were camping behind the ball

OK he's made up for it! 😂

He has missed two guilt edge chances, one where Tino put him in on the ground and took too many chances and lost it. One where it was put in and he vollyed it wide. He made the Redmond chance well but I'd rather see our first choice striker pairing on tbh

Bring on Armstrong and Che for Theo and Broja, then Stu on for Redmond later if needed. Tino is making chances like crazy and no one can finish them, he had to do it himself in the end!

Broja has to do better with these chances, Livra could have had two assists by now if his finishing was better.

My moneys on Redmond, seems to have been given all other dead ball responsibilities.

Good numbers from 1v1's but his generic saves vs expected he is 14th in the league with -0.7. Good skill to be able to do well in 1v1's but his general goalkeeping is still mediocre. Better than last year though.

Keeper I reckon and that's it, but it will depend on Stephens' injury as we may need to pick up a CB if it is still going. Going into the second half of the season with 3 cbs and 2 that we'd probably be happy to play week in week out is pretty risky

Is there statistical analysis to analyse the success rate of corners depending on their placement? Yes. Yes of course there is.

Is it not boring for you to constantly point out you don't enjoy statistical analysis?

I love Diallo, superb footballer, but I think you are perhaps being a bit generous here. Looks to me like he gets a tackle in due to a loose touch and it falls to Djenepo fortuitously. Even if it was deliberately a pass, I think calling it "involved in the attack" is a little generous too. It was a mostly sideways 5 yard pass by his own box, the attack was made by Djenepo's running and passing and then Redmond. You could say his solid defensive work and positioning led to an opportunity for Djenepo to attack, and that would be accurate, but I wouldn't use it as an example of Diallo being involved in our attacking game personally. When the pass occurs they are both in their own box and that's the last thing Diallo does towards the attack.

I believe they can't buy him back before 2023, so we have atleast two seasons before they can stump up £38m to get him. That's what the athletic said if I recall correctly. EDIT: Quoted the wrong post, sorry, was ment to be in response to the one you were responding to!

I hope Salisu's extension is top of the list.

Yeah I've been disappointed with the corners, we miss Vestergaard for sure but I think we do too many "tricky" corners where we try and get a flick on, or put it along the ground for some reason. Just drop it in the danger zone and let the bigger lads attack it!

I have been summoned! Here is a touch heatmap of both of them this season So it does look like JWP does take up more advanced positions than Diallo. Ward-Prowse has a non-pen xG of 0.1 per game to Diallos 0. He also has an xA of 0.1 per game to Diallos 0 but a lot of that comes from corners. As for your question regarding touches in advanced positions, JWP enjoys 19.8 touches per game in the final third to Diallo's 4.8. JWP gets 0.7 penalty area touches per game to Diallos 0.5 so neither really operate in the box so much. As for ball progression @Mosin is bang on. While Diallo does progress the ball significantly more by dribbling (1.2 successful dribbles per 90 to JWP's 0.3) (NOTE Diallo is the only player in the prem to have 100% success rate in dribbles with over 7 attempts, which is pretty cool), JWP progresses the ball significantly more by passing with 3.9 passes into the final third to Diallos 3.0. JWP also progresses the ball an average 230 yards per game to Diallo's 142. Also massive acknowledgement to Salisu who not only is an absolute beast in defence but leads our team in both passing distance (351) and pass success (84.1%) with JWP and Diallo as 79.5% and 83% respectively (6th and 4th respectively). What a legend. Crosses, JWP gets 7.0 crosses per game with 1.1 successful (seems low but cross success rate is usually under 20%), Diallo has 0, literally hasn't crossed the ball yet this season. Also, finally JWP makes 1.4 chances per 90 to Diallos 0.2. With Diallos excellent dribbling and actually very good defensive numbers it would be nice to see if we could pair Diallo and JWP, maybe possible with a better, faster CB behind them in Salisu who needs less cover. I think losing JWP loses us a lot though unfortunately. He is only behind Redmond and Stuart Armstrong for chance creation per 90 in our team this season.

He was in loads of space when he hit it, you can see that from my picture of the state of play when he hit it, not sure why the conversation needs to go on beyond that? Why does it matter how much space he was after the shot? Honestly I think you are just pretending to be more silly than you are to waste my time, before you came across as not so bright but I didn't think the concept of "thing has to happen before thing to affect thing" was outside of your wheelhouse.

Because if you want to see the distance between two things then looking at them from in front is better than looking at one in the foreground and one in the background. You see humans have depth perception as they have two eyes which send their brain two different images so they can see things in 3D. However pictures are in 2D which makes perceiving depth quite challenging. Therefore you shouldn't make the axis on a picture you wish to observe the depth axis. There we go, I have explained both the linearity of time to you today and also how pictures work. No such thing as a silly question, I guess. I don't know what relevance a "stop watch" has. The moment Broja strikes it his role in the goal is over, from then on it's physics' job! If he gets clattered half a second after or three hours after it makes little difference, you can't have a causal link that flows backwards through time. You could maybe argue if he saw the defender in the corner of his eye before hitting it it may have put him off but as you can clearly see in my, non-stupidly selected, picture there is a good distance the moment he strikes it so seems unlikely to me!

Certainly does feel weird being excited for a game! Also a selection dilemma for the first time in a while in multiple positions. KWP or Perraud, Broja or Adams, Armstrong or Redmond, when he comes back which two of Diallo, JWP, or Romeu. It's nice to have these problems!

So you pick an angle where you can't see the distance between the players very easily, the ball has already been struck, and you can still see that the defender is not really anywhere near challenging for the ball. Nice. Also "you haven't kicked a ball" without any evidence. It's the Turkish classic. "So what if I'm wrong, I'm probably better at PLAYING football than them, even if I don't know as much about it". You keep telling yourself that.