Enzo Maresca Thread

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

4 hours ago, King Kante said:

Problem is that he is running people into the ground. Palmer for instance, has needed to come off around the 60 min mark for the past 4 games. Yet he has played every minute. Sancho is a half a game player. Plays 75 mins plus every time he starts give or take. 

I just don't get why he doesn't make subs. Sure Felix is a downgrade on Palmer at 100% each. But Felix at 100% and Palmer at 60% is when you need to swap. Not never. 

Not trying Nkunku as a 10 more has been a huge issue for me. Or even m as a 9 to take Jackson out for a rest/when underperforming/struggling to convert big chances.

Palmer is the best player we have but he cannot compete every game at that level, we’ve already seen it. He was also heavily used under Poch last season and he is starting to look leggy at times in this last 5 weeks. Really not surprised at the lack of minutes for Felix though, he is the biggest definition of a luxury player and if the rumours are the manager didn’t want him then I can see why he’s maybe not played a lot either from that side, like KDH and even Jorgensen.

Completely agree on Sancho, can be severely lacking at times and tends to drift in and out of games far too often (but I think all of our attackers tend to do this barring Cole without considering this last month to 6 weeks). For me, like Felix, Sancho is more of a luxury player than someone you can count on every week to show up, do the business and put a shift in. I am a bit worried that Maresca sees him as a key part of the team in the long run. Don’t get me wrong prefer him to Mudryk, least he can provide some moments of quality but needs to take himself to the next level and be consistent if he wants to make good on his potential.

[Reddish-Blue 2,488]

10 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

For me, like Felix, Sancho is more of a luxury player than someone you can count on every week to show up, do the business and put a shift in. I am a bit worried that Maresca sees him as a key part of the team in the long run.

Agree with this, I feel it won't be as bad in the long run (on the right side of our attack) as we have the Brazilian wonderkid showing up next season. 

Wonder what the plan is for the left side of the attack as I doubt Sancho/Mudryk gets it done....maybe Jackson plays a bit off the left and we get a proper striker in the main transfer window? 

[Special Juan 28,088]

Jackson's future will pan out very simply if we buy a new CF, he won't be played wide he will be benched and that will result in him wanting away.

Neto will cement that spot, Mudryk will be loaned/sold and Estavao will be right

[Vesper 30,081]

13 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Neto will cement that spot,

not sold on Neto

never was

he simply doesnt produce enough goals

never has

[robsblubot 3,595]

8 minutes ago, Vesper said:

not sold on Neto

never was

he simply doesnt produce enough goals

never has

Which implies he was not signed for that.

[Vesper 30,081]

34 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

Which implies he was not signed for that.

good luck winning trophies with one of our starting wingers scoring 2 or 3 league goals all season

Neto has ONE league goal in over 1000 league minutes

TWO assists

his league goal totals over the years

1 (2 games)

0 (1 game)

0 (4 games)

3 (29 games)

5 (31 games)

1 (13 games)

0 (18 games)

2 (20 games)

1 (this season so far, 18 games)

 

FOUR league goals in his last 76 league games (all in the EPL)

that output makes Chels Willian look like Messi

[TheHulk 2,402]

5 minutes ago, Vesper said:

good luck winning trophies with one of our starting wingers scoring 2 or 3 league goals all season

Neto has ONE league goal in over 1000 league minutes

TWO assists

his league goal totals over the years

1 (2 games)

0 (1 game)

0 (4 games)

3 (29 games)

5 (31 games)

1 (13 games)

0 (18 games)

2 (20 games)

1 (this season so far, 18 games)

 

FOUR league goals in his last 76 league games (all in the EPL)

that output makes Chels Willian look like Messi

Think he'd be scoring and assisting more if he played for an already settled team like Liverpool.

[robsblubot 3,595]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

good luck winning trophies with one of our starting wingers scoring 2 or 3 league goals all season

Neto has ONE league goal in over 1000 league minutes

TWO assists

his league goal totals over the years

1 (2 games)

0 (1 game)

0 (4 games)

3 (29 games)

5 (31 games)

1 (13 games)

0 (18 games)

2 (20 games)

1 (this season so far, 18 games)

 

FOUR league goals in his last 76 league games (all in the EPL)

that output makes Chels Willian look like Messi

Yes, this was known. You are singling out a player for his characteristics and at the same time showing that all was well-known before we signed him. There was no birthday season or whatnot... what you see is what you get with him.

My point being that this is about balancing the squad, so you need a Neto just as you need goal scorers too. I personally don't think scoring goals has been our main problem. We concede too many goals and the issue starts with the attacking players who don't do a good job pressing the opposition.
Reckon we would also score more goals if our attackers could steal the football closer to the opposition goal.
I value a lot these type of players and I usually see them in winning sides more so than the "lazy" skillful prima donnas. 

 

Edited January 18 by robsblubot

[Reddish-Blue 2,488]

1 hour ago, robsblubot said:

I personally don't think scoring goals has been our main problem. We concede too many goals and the issue starts with the attacking players who don't do a good job pressing the opposition.

Bournemouth exploited that in the 2nd half on so many occasions, Madueke and Sancho not bothering to run back at all and Maresca decides not to make any attacking subs until 80th minute of the game. 

Maresca's lack of rotations and impact subs will continue to cost us over this period of games and top 4 is likely to slip away. 

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

It’s already slipped away bruv🤧

[Mhsc 1,091]

11 hours ago, Vesper said:

good luck winning trophies with one of our starting wingers scoring 2 or 3 league goals all season

Willian won two PLs with us didn't he, only scored 2 goals from 36 PL games in 14/15? I think a team can live with one hard worker who doesn't put out big goal scoring numbers but has basically every other quality you want, indeed it can be good for balance, but the rest of the guys around him need to put out decent numbers.

Personally I like him and glad we got him in the squad, one of the best wingers we've had in years and years overall, but he's got to be a piece of a jigsaw and probably not a completely guaranteed starter.

[Vesper 30,081]

5 hours ago, Mhsc said:

Willian won two PLs with us didn't he, only scored 2 goals from 36 PL games in 14/15? I think a team can live with one hard worker who doesn't put out big goal scoring numbers but has basically every other quality you want, indeed it can be good for balance, but the rest of the guys around him need to put out decent numbers.

Personally I like him and glad we got him in the squad, one of the best wingers we've had in years and years overall, but he's got to be a piece of a jigsaw and probably not a completely guaranteed starter.

different team, different style, different era