Galning
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Don't bring too much logic into this thread.
MarkYaeger
New member
How many videos would like us to post of him not drawing any defenders except his one marking man, fumbling the ball and losing it. Or, more often, just fudging in front of goal. You can't just post one video and expect to warrant your argument wholly.
Of course he does that, and sometimes it works. My point is that he tends to fudge simple plays more often than he's helping. Simple as that. And when you have people sitting on the bench that can do exactly what he does, except prob finish better, they need to start ahead of him.
stewart77
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I just hope they're just being gentlemen in front of the press and not going public with what their actual thoughts are. Because if this is really what the coaching staff thinks, Alexis not finishing suddenly seems like a lesser problem in the grand scheme of things.
Do you honestly think the coaches should come out and rip him apart in front of the world? I'm sure that would do wonders for his confidence
Stric
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No no no no
I only said I was wondering if they think differently behind closed doors. I wouldn't want them to come out with it. I support what they're saying in public now, I just want to know if it's really so, or is it just keeping polite conversation with the media.
MarkYaeger
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I feel like this will happen. His randomness may come to fruition on RM night
Mes que un club
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Well in that case, let's all stop underlining our points with examples. Given that this discussion has long ago been reduced to a mere exchange of opinion, examples might actually nuance the debate. Villa is a better finisher, a better passer - Alexis has better tracking back; more dynamic movement. They are not the same. Saying Villa can do what Alexis can + finish better is wrong, just as saying Alexis can do what Villa can + track back would be wrong. They are different, and so far this season, due our usage of dual attacking full-backs and the more vertical Fabregas in midfield, what Alexis offers has been called upon more often.
stewart77
New member
No no no no
Of course they can see Alexis hasn't been playing well. I'm pretty certain that he would've been told what's expected of him. As of right now his confidence in front of goal is shot, and some players respond to positive reinforcement, instead of a bollocking. Right now it's not as big a problem as it might be if we relied on him to score goals as the main striker.
Galning
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UEFA_Barça_Chris
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Actually Villa was being criticized very badly, similar to Sanchez before his injury. They were so fed up with him they really wanted to sell him. So I'm not really surprised at all of this.
raskolnikov
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In his book Ibrahimovic describes how when he joined Juve they were pissed about his accuracy so they gave him a personal trainer for a little while, training him outside the group for hours after regular training and basically the only thing they did was let him finish shots/headers on target.
He said it helped improve his goalscoring a lot in his first serie A season compared to his period at Ajax.
Maybe Barca should do something similair with Alexis, he played well today but his finishing is poor, if he could score 20/25 goals in all competitions in a season the cries for him leaving wouldnt be this loud.
He said it helped improve his goalscoring a lot in his first serie A season compared to his period at Ajax.
Maybe Barca should do something similair with Alexis, he played well today but his finishing is poor, if he could score 20/25 goals in all competitions in a season the cries for him leaving wouldnt be this loud.
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