[Albion] Locadia Today

[One Teddy Maybank]

Played pretty well today - creative, combative, linked play.

I just wish he was aware of team mates when in great attacking positions. Pointlessly hellbent on trying to score ‘worldies’ when clearly marshalled by defenders. I think that may possibly have cost us today.

Sorry, thought he was ordinary (but a lot better than Tuesday).

A couple of good headers, though the first one should have gone back the way it came.

Tracked players twice, so that was an improvement on Tuesday, when he really was shocking.

But he is brainless, ran offside needlessly several times, and it was nothing to do with the early release of the ball, just really brainless. Rarely had a plan when he received the ball, running straight into defenders on a few occasions.

The shot that went for a throw-in was something else.

Personally, I remain on the fence, because there is no doubt he has showed glimpses, but I think today just wasn't his day.

 

[PoG]

Tough crowd as per, looked fairly decent to me today. Could he of done better? Sure. Was he shitehouse? No.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Had a good game one sliced shot aside.

 

[Icy Gull]

Sorry, thought he was ordinary (but a lot better than Tuesday).

A couple of good headers, though the first one should have gone back the way it came.

Tracked players twice, so that was an improvement on Tuesday, when he really was shocking.

But he is brainless, ran offside needlessly several times, and it was nothing to do with the early release of the ball, just really brainless. Rarely had a plan when he received the ball, running straight into defenders on a few occasions.

The shot that went for a throw-in was something else.

Personally, I remain on the fence, because there is no doubt he has showed glimpses, but I think today just wasn't his day.

Much much much better than Murray today and I just don’t see how a player who can play quick passes can be expected to hang around waiting for his centre forward to arrive and make space for himself at this level. He is often left with no choice but to go for it himself. I hope he gets a run with Andone as I think he has plenty to offer but not with Murray as a strike partner.

Thought he had a good game and he is strong enough to hold the ball without falling over when challenged, not many Brighton forwards have had that attribute.

 

[Weststander]

Sorry, thought he was ordinary (but a lot better than Tuesday).

A couple of good headers, though the first one should have gone back the way it came.

Tracked players twice, so that was an improvement on Tuesday, when he really was shocking.

But he is brainless, ran offside needlessly several times, and it was nothing to do with the early release of the ball, just really brainless. Rarely had a plan when he received the ball, running straight into defenders on a few occasions.

The shot that went for a throw-in was something else.

Personally, I remain on the fence, because there is no doubt he has showed glimpses, but I think today just wasn't his day.

I hadn’t been to a match for a while, the last few occasions Locadia was awful, so today I could a huge improvment.

I totally agree with you about the brainless decision making and lack of awareness of team mates. He certainly missed out on the Cryuff part of the Dutch gene pool.

Can be add quality decision making and awareness to his game?

 

[Acker79]

I think when a player is written off the way Locadia was, but come back into the side, they will usually be treated more harshly than the other players. The amount of times Murray is caught offside and he doesn't get nearly the same criticism. It gets excused because "he plays off the shoulder". Locadia screws one wide and there are expletives thrown his way from the crowd behind me, Bissouma does it and he's met with "that's more like it! come on Brighton!".

 

[Weststander]

I think when a player is written off the way Locadia was, but come back into the side, they will usually be treated more harshly than the other players. The amount of times Murray is caught offside and he doesn't get nearly the same criticism. It gets excused because "he plays off the shoulder". Locadia screws one wide and there are expletives thrown his way from the crowd behind me, Bissouma does it and he's met with "that's more like it! come on Brighton!".

Where we were, Bissouma’s embarrassing shot was met with annoyance. Like Locadia, the shot was not on. Any chance of retaining possession, before playing in a team mate? No.

 

[dibsy]

Compared to Solly he was pretty ineffectual I thought. Why does he always stop? Why not outpace his marker occasionally? He's improving but I don't really get why he's playing left wing, I think him and andone up top would be more suited to him

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Two headers on target and forcing saves, he’s getting better week on week


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[Stat Brother]

Compared to Solly he was pretty ineffectual I thought. Why does he always stop? Why not outpace his marker occasionally? He's improving but I don't really get why he's playing left wing, I think him and andone up top would be more suited to him

Why does he have to be compared to Solly.
After all they are different players doing a similar but not identical job.

I thought both were very good today.
Both linked up well with their respective full backs.
Both defended well when needed.
Solly attacked the full back brilliantly..
Big Jurg also attacked his full back well but had a great game recycling play, attacking and pushing forward.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Much much much better than Murray today and I just don’t see how a player who can play quick passes can be expected to hang around waiting for his centre forward to arrive and make space for himself at this level. He is often left with no choice but to go for it himself. I hope he gets a run with Andone as I think he has plenty to offer but not with Murray as a strike partner.

Thought he had a good game and he is strong enough to hold the ball without falling over when challenged, not many Brighton forwards have had that attribute.

I don't think he was as good as Murray (who also irritated me for the first 25 mins - blooming offside).

However, it is a good point re partnership with Andone, but arguably perhaps if he had something in his mind when he receives the ball he'd look better.

His heavy touch to Bong in the first half was so poor, that although Bong got the cross in the ball had already gone out......

Still find him frustrating....

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Why does he have to be compared to Solly.
After all they are different players doing a similar but not identical job.

I thought both were very good today.
Both linked up well with their respective full backs.
Both defended well when needed.
Solly attacked the full back brilliantly..
Big Jurg also attacked his full back well but had a great game recycling play, attacking and pushing forward.

Blimey, you were at a different game to me and most around me......

 

[Icy Gull]

I don't think he was as good as Murray (who also irritated me for the first 25 mins - blooming offside).

However, it is a good point re partnership with Andone, but arguably perhaps if he had something in his mind when he receives the ball he'd look better.

His heavy touch to Bong in the first half was so poor, that although Bong got the cross in the ball had already gone out......

Still find him frustrating....

Harsh, what exactly did Murray do today? We looked so much more threatening once he went off. He was slow and cumbersome today imo and we suffered when attacking because of it.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Harsh, what exactly did Murray do today? We looked so much more threatening once he went off. He was slow and cumbersome today imo and we suffered when attacking because of it.

Thought he held the ball up relatively well in the second half. Did he get one decent cross in the first half?

The biggest problem IMO is the formation, Gross is now too far off Murray so whilst he did win headers, there was no-one coming towards him to offer support.

To be fair we did look better when Andone came on, but arguably that was because we got numbers in the box.

 

[Stat Brother]

Blimey, you were at a different game to me and most around me......

I find that odd as I think Locadia's best attribute is his ability, when cornered, to offload the ball not only accurately but positively as well and not just pass it backwards.

 

[Icy Gull]

I find that odd as I think Locadia's best attribute is his ability, when cornered, to offload the ball not only accurately but positively as well and not just pass it backwards.

Exactly, it’s refreshing to have a player whose first instinct is to go forwards and not backwards, although he does when no fecker bothers to give him options for a forward pass, but you can see he wants to attack. The number of times I swore at a player (from the comfort of my living room) for looking to go backwards when there were options forward went into double figures. We can be an infuriating team to watch sometimes, probably one of the reasons I have warmed to Locadia is his willingness to attack, even if it doesn’t always end well.

 

[dazzer6666]

I find that odd as I think Locadia's best attribute is his ability, when cornered, to offload the ball not only accurately but positively as well and not just pass it backwards.

Agreed. His running is also very intelligent - the rest aren’t always quite on his wavelength yet but it’s generally improving

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I find that odd as I think Locadia's best attribute is his ability, when cornered, to offload the ball not only accurately but positively as well and not just pass it backwards.

That's exactly what I was seeing today. ��

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

I find that odd as I think Locadia's best attribute is his ability, when cornered, to offload the ball not only accurately but positively as well and not just pass it backwards.

Don’t see that at all.
I see a player with no picture, who is indecisive as soon as he reaches the area.
The shot that went for a throw was perhaps a demonstration why....
Perhaps a confidence thing I don’t know...


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[stingray]

Why does he have to be compared to Solly.
After all they are different players doing a similar but not identical job.

I thought both were very good today.
Both linked up well with their respective full backs.
Both defended well when needed.
Solly attacked the full back brilliantly..
Big Jurg also attacked his full back well but had a great game recycling play, attacking and pushing forward.

Locadia still unconvincing, March best game for months.