Álvaro Morata

[The Chels 2,502]

Thought he was excellent today. Problem is if you miss a chance as important/big as that, that's all anyone will remember.  

[El P. 1,354]

3 minutes ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

10 goals this season and superb all round play. He's allowed to miss from time to time. He's not a cyborg. More importantly he's clearly better than Lukaku and Costa. His all round play is so much better and pleasing to the eye and he's just the most talented of those three. In this game he created a shot from himself from literally nothing that almost went in.

Our best players are allowed leeway from time to time. 

I think we all know this. It's just, he never really proved himself. If he had scored some good number of goals with his feet, no one would mention his tonight's miss. It's just game after game, him missing sitters.

[Leif 6,006]

To add to those, yeah, I don't think it's beneficial or deserved to get on Morata's back. He gets us a goal every 2-3 games, and in a manner which is more attractive than Lukaku/Costa/etc. Then again, it's totally acceptable to expect a striker to strike goals with his feet.

His goals may sometimes not come, but at least because of him, Hazard looks twice as likely to score this season. He's more than just a striker, so when the goals don't come, there's still plenty left to compliment.

So, good movement. Good determination. Good mentality. Good link up play. None of which we've had in our past few strikers. Closest to Drogba we've had actually, though I doubt we'll see a goal like Drogba's vs Milan 

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

1 minute ago, El P. said:

I think we all know this. It's just, he never really proved himself. If he had scored some good number of goals with his feet, no one would mention his tonight's miss. It's just game after game, him missing sitters.

Honest question. What do you expect his conversation rate to realistically look like? Stikers miss and convert chances all the time. Maybe I might change my opinion later in the season but I'm yet to see a pattern. 

[El P. 1,354]

9 minutes ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

Honest question. What do you expect his conversation rate to realistically look like? Stikers miss and convert chances all the time. Maybe I might change my opinion later in the season but I'm yet to see a pattern. 

It's not about conversation rate, that number is ok. But you can't expect every single game him to get good cross so he can score a header, you know.

All attacks are built mostly in hope for one thing - every action, almost every move from Fabregas and Hazard - to give your number 9 good ball so he could score, that's the plan A. And I don't mean cross from the wing, but that can be useful sometimes too, yes. But not as a main source of our scoring. Our plan A sucks, and because of that we must always look for alternatives, which is not good.

I don't expect him to be next Shevchenko, or I don't know. I just want that part of his game to be a little better, it must be.

[manpe 10,861]

13 minutes ago, El P. said:

It's not about conversation rate, that number is ok. But you can't expect every single game him to get good cross so he can score a header, you know.

All attacks are built mostly in hope for one thing - every action, almost every move from Fabregas and Hazard - to give your number 9 good ball so he could score, that's the plan A. And I don't mean cross from the wing, but that can be useful sometimes too, yes. But not as a main source of our scoring. Our plan A sucks, and because of that we must always look for alternatives, which is not good.

I don't expect him to be next Shevchenko, or I don't know. I just want that part of his game to be a little better, it must be.

Our plan A is solid, entertaining and efficient, only the finishing sucks. Actually I don't know if you can call it efficient if you lack the most important ingredient, but everything before the finish is better than anything we've seen in the last I don't know how many years.

[El P. 1,354]

Our plan A is solid, entertaining and efficient, only the finishing sucks. Actually I don't know if you can call it efficient if you lack the most important ingredient, but everything before the finish is better than anything we've seen in the last I don't know how many years.

Yeah, I meant that - it is good, but because of bad finishing it sucks and is inefficient.

 

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[OneMoSalah 8,776]

1 hour ago, El P. said:

Next time Fabregas should aim at his head, there is no use of feeding him with balls like this.

Goalkeeper actually spread his legs wide open, but Alvaro wasn't even looking at the keeper, he was just watching the ball and got keeper in his leg.

Still hope that he can make it as a top striker, but that hope is really thin now.

Jesus. Don’t say this shite has begun? One miss? Was bound to happen eventually but yeah... 

For that chance Oblak made a good save, sure we would of all done something differently in that position based or whatever because we all seen it live on the tele and thought he should of scored but thats life. The keeper was really quick to come out to him which means Morata has to make up his mind and Oblak made himself really big, which I thought was good goalkeeping. He would probably score that 9/10 times I imagine. Oblak is a top keeper, fair enough people would back somebody to score from that position but I don’t think it was that bad, he’s hit the target and it’s definitely going in if the keeper doesn’t save it. Hardly a crisis. You’d think he was Demba Ba with that last comment about thinking he won’t make it as a top striker.

[The Skipper 20,593]

1 hour ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

10 goals this season and superb all round play. He's allowed to miss from time to time. He's not a cyborg. More importantly he's clearly better than Lukaku and Costa. His all round play is so much better and pleasing to the eye and he's just the most talented of those three. In this game he created a shot from himself from literally nothing that almost went in.

Our best players are allowed leeway from time to time. 

Of course - nothing wrong with wanting him to improve though. Don’t see much cynicism going on in here apart from one person. 

[zakhov 253]

He had a good game. As for the missed chance, that's down more to great goalkeeping I think.

Oblak rushed out quickly and made himself as big as possible, so credit where credit's due.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,919]

This guy is Charmin ultra soft.

[cfcs most wanted 657]

Doesn't show even a bit of strength, frustrating to watch him go down after every small touch. Stop simulation, show a little fight

[LeonDavis23 371]

Bring Pato back!

[LAM09 6,744]

Talk of his finishing ability in general has to be questioned. I'm sure he's missed a sitter in almost every game he's featured in.

[cfcs most wanted 657]

2 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

Talk of his finishing ability in general has to be questioned. I'm sure he's missed a sitter in almost every game he's featured in.

Don't know how much longer his headers can hide the fact that he has actually been woeful at finishing

[The Skipper 20,593]

My biggest worry with Morata is his lack of fight. It keeps rearing it’s head even though he has shown glimpses of fight. Thoroughly bullied by old school English defending. 

And his finishing? Well...

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, The Skipper said:

My biggest worry with Morata is his lack of fight. It keeps rearing it’s head even though he has shown glimpses of fight. Thoroughly bullied by old school English defending. 

He's been here for months and has anyone actually told him that referees don't give cheap fouls? He keeps going down so easily every single game, expecting the referee to give a foul. The Premier League is NOT La Liga OR Champions League FFS!

[El P. 1,354]

Can we now please admit to ourselves the obvious things? Or are we still in the "give him time, he has good goal-scoring record" period? 

Man is Torres with magnificent heading skills. I'm not saying that we could've bought better striker. But let's not lie to ourselves.