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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • if you wanna go on about take ons

    last season we had a 46% completion rate

    so far we’re at 44%

    we have a better carries into the penalty are rate this season

    prog carries in general were slightly better last season being 21.7 per 90 as of right now’s 20.5

    we attempt more carries this season 20 per 90 vs 17.5

    and we have more completed carries into final 1/3rd per 90 than last season as well

    its classic really, partey injured so while out has become the answer to every problem and the best thing since sliced bread.

    this team wil have no real issue moving on from him at all






    • our 8s have been off form / arent carriers over distance regardless
    • our fullbacks are not archetypal overlappers

    both of these in tandem mean opposition defenders know locking off our wingers is a safe task —> saka and nelli doubled/tripled up on every single game.

    saka is truly world class and so has still managed to produced near enough a contribution every game but you see (despite still having incredible talent) with martinelli, whether the cf is jesus or eddie or kai or trossard he has struggled to take off like last season.

    this is where a lot of people’s argument for moving martin to the left / making vieira our lcm stems from, as it puts him on his strong foot to play through passes to martinelli. he should be getting chances like that first goal vs liverpool at the emirates or his offside finish vs everton a lot more.

    Martinelli in general could have a different role to maximise his effectiveness, i mean what would you say is the best role for someone who is lighning quick, a great finisher, excellent technically and has an engine that henry ford would be jealous of? We essentially have a brazillian hueng-min son and the team is set up for him to play like jack grealish.