after bearing witness to saturday's shameful display of football at the walker's and finally getting myself a computer i feel the need to post my own critique of city and some of its players on here.
Keith Gillespie; imo micky was right to drop this complete watse of space. keith has a good first touch and does stay in his wide position providing good shape to the team on the right hand side but he suffers from some major flaws as even a championship player. the lad use to have an injection of pace similar to ryan giggs, that allowed him to get past players. unfortunately this has dissipated. whilst giggs has also suffered a similar fate due to thier similar ages, though not to the same degree, giggs does possess the ability to throw in a shimmy or misdirection to get past players. these seem alien concepts to gillespie, who now when advancing down the wing often just bundles his way past players now relying on lucky ricochets. as this proves sucessful only a minority of the times he attempts to go down the wing he often cuts back inside on to his left foot and runs across players either the defence or midfield of the opposition. unfortunately gillespie has no faith in his left foot. hence there is no shot or cross in the space afforded him when he does cut inside. instead gillespie ends up playing a short pass to one of the central midfielders or as witnessed on saturday a cross field pass to the left side with the outside of his right foot. whilst this is skillful, the impotence of leicester's left side in the absence of tiatto means such a pass is unproductive in the long term and the ability to play the ball to the left wing is not a chief prerequisite in a good right sided player. this compunded by his lack of crossing ability makes gillespie inadequate for leicester.
reading the ratings given to gillespie some posters have given him a 7 for providing good crosses. i have to disagree. gillespie's crosses are too often just chipped into the box, at both a hieght, position and pace that gives the definding team the advantage. his crosses are never delivered at pace in the space between keeper and the line of the defence which causes the defending team numerous problems, not least because they are trying to clear the danger whilst facing their own goal with attacking players closing in behind them. instead gillespie's crosses are delivered slowly, in front of the line of the defenders, and at a great height. the defending team thus are facing towards where they ideally want to clear the ball to (i.e towards to opposition half) and at a hieght and pace where they have time to study the flight of the ball and challenge the attacking player who is waiting for the ball to drop. the initative is lost and the definding team have the time and direction to easily clear. in short gillespie = disgrace.
i've started but i'll have to finish later. i'm not just picking on gillespie i have critiques for the majority of first team players. just that a boy has to eat.[/url]
Keith Gillespie; imo micky was right to drop this complete watse of space. keith has a good first touch and does stay in his wide position providing good shape to the team on the right hand side but he suffers from some major flaws as even a championship player. the lad use to have an injection of pace similar to ryan giggs, that allowed him to get past players. unfortunately this has dissipated. whilst giggs has also suffered a similar fate due to thier similar ages, though not to the same degree, giggs does possess the ability to throw in a shimmy or misdirection to get past players. these seem alien concepts to gillespie, who now when advancing down the wing often just bundles his way past players now relying on lucky ricochets. as this proves sucessful only a minority of the times he attempts to go down the wing he often cuts back inside on to his left foot and runs across players either the defence or midfield of the opposition. unfortunately gillespie has no faith in his left foot. hence there is no shot or cross in the space afforded him when he does cut inside. instead gillespie ends up playing a short pass to one of the central midfielders or as witnessed on saturday a cross field pass to the left side with the outside of his right foot. whilst this is skillful, the impotence of leicester's left side in the absence of tiatto means such a pass is unproductive in the long term and the ability to play the ball to the left wing is not a chief prerequisite in a good right sided player. this compunded by his lack of crossing ability makes gillespie inadequate for leicester.
reading the ratings given to gillespie some posters have given him a 7 for providing good crosses. i have to disagree. gillespie's crosses are too often just chipped into the box, at both a hieght, position and pace that gives the definding team the advantage. his crosses are never delivered at pace in the space between keeper and the line of the defence which causes the defending team numerous problems, not least because they are trying to clear the danger whilst facing their own goal with attacking players closing in behind them. instead gillespie's crosses are delivered slowly, in front of the line of the defenders, and at a great height. the defending team thus are facing towards where they ideally want to clear the ball to (i.e towards to opposition half) and at a hieght and pace where they have time to study the flight of the ball and challenge the attacking player who is waiting for the ball to drop. the initative is lost and the definding team have the time and direction to easily clear. in short gillespie = disgrace.
i've started but i'll have to finish later. i'm not just picking on gillespie i have critiques for the majority of first team players. just that a boy has to eat.[/url]
