[Albion] Locadia Today

[attila]

Maybe Jurgen Locadia was preoccupied by his musical career so we didn’t see the best of him. What a performance today.

Message to @locadiaofficial - prioritise the football. You’re really good at it. (Music tip: less dance underground and more Velvet Underground)

 

[aolstudios]

Are you on drugs?


Can I have some?

Think he played the same position for PSV.

He did

 

[aolstudios]

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Think he played the same position for PSV.

He did

 

[aolstudios]

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Actually being given an opportunity and not just 5 minutes at the end of a game is what has changed.
As is sometimes the case not down to management team just the fact injuries have left us short out wide.
His cross field passing was superb yesterday.

Wasn't it?
On the button every time

 

[Stat Brother]

Wasn't it?
On the button every time

As was his close control when the ball was pinged his way.

#NotAFootballer.

 

[aolstudios]

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As was his close control when the ball was pinged his way.

#NotAFootballer.

Yep, noticed this several times.
Best ball control bar none yesterday

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Yep, noticed this several times.
Best ball control bar none yesterday

Since you like my post so much you have now quoted it five times, would you like to know where it comes from? Clue: it is a quote from a character called Spud Gun. No cheeky googling, now

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

My take on it has a little more too it than that, although I'm happy to be wrong.

In 4-3-3 I don't see the onus being 'get the ball out wide'.
For me, at least, the team seems a lot more central playing more in the middle third of the pitch.

The outside 2 have license to be next to Murray with overlapping full backs (nothing new there) covering some of the (missing) winger play.

I'd agree in the main, and if you were talking about how Klopp plays it, for example, I'd totally agree. I don't think that's the way CH played it yesterday personally, but that's just a matter of opinion. March, for example, didn't make any of the same types of movements as Locadia despite being his opposite on the right, but that had more to do with his player profile and characteristics than any specific formation change. I also felt that Gross spent a fair portion of the game high up near Murray, particularly in the first half which led to us being overrun, and also moving into wide positions which isn't usually the remit of a central player in a 433. But it's all about interpretations. For me we played our usual 4411 but we had a striker on the left which meant he made runs inside and behind more naturally. But there were quite numerous times where he had to work defensively and he also held his position on the left a lot.

 

[Bodian]

Re-watching the highlights - quite impressive turn of pace for the goal, as he was on the edge of our area when their corner came in. I'd assumed he was originally further upfield.

 

[Jaxie]

I liked him in that position. He looks quick and powerful enough to play it well to me. I reckon our attacking options are coming along just nicely.

 

[Weststander]

I liked him in that position. He looks quick and powerful enough to play it well to me. I reckon our attacking options are coming along just nicely.

The left side of the Arsenal defence couldn’t handle his power and tenacity.

 

[Triggaaar]

Think he played the same position for PSV.

Square peg in a round hole according to Alan Smith

 

[drew]

Re-watching the highlights - quite impressive turn of pace for the goal, as he was on the edge of our area when their corner came in. I'd assumed he was originally further upfield.

No disrespect but why would you think one of our players was further upfield during an opposition corner!

 

[LamieRobertson]

Square peg in a round hole according to Alan Smith

Sounds like his punditry

 

[Machiavelli]

The left side of the Arsenal defence couldn’t handle his power and tenacity.

And he made their right side look simply out of their depth

 

[Billy the Fish]

Thought he had a great game. He clearly can't play up top on his own, but coming in from the left he always looked like he could make something happen and he showed great vision with his passes and layoffs.

 

[WATFORD zero]

He is really very quick and certainly gives us another option from our more traditional 'wide men'

Is it just me, or does he have an unusual running style which would suggest otherwise

 

[PoG]

He is really very quick and certainly gives us another option from our more traditional 'wide men'

Is it just me, or does he have an unusual running style which would suggest otherwise

I agree, its as if he has to take a few steps to get his stride.

 

[Bodian]

He is really very quick and certainly gives us another option from our more traditional 'wide men'

Is it just me, or does he have an unusual running style which would suggest otherwise

I agree, its as if he has to take a few steps to get his stride.

I agree. In an earlier post I put "But the thing that puzzles me is that it often seems as though he has set off on the wrong foot, or in slightly the wrong direction and then appears rather ungainly when subsequently sorting his feet out - so you feel that he's not quite in control." Which is, I think the same as what you are saying.

 

[Bodian]

No disrespect but why would you think one of our players was further upfield during an opposition corner!

Only because of the speed with which he appeared at the other end. Watching it first time around, I thought he can't have been as far back as 'instructed' or he wouldn't have got there. But he was!