Lucky7 wrote:As far as a strikers passing rates and whether they passed forwards or not....Those stats are for midfielders if anyone. If a striker passes forwards that only implies that they probably dropped deep to receive the ball.
So what does it say about the midfield if a striker has to drop deep to get the ball ?
Why did the guys who have to support the striker get such a good rating while the striker who doesn't get support gets punished for trying to come into play ?
Lucky7 wrote:Here's why Podolski has poor ratings: Arsenal had 28 shots against Cardiff. Podolski played CF for 64 minutes and had 1 shot. This is the least # of shots by any starting striker for Arsenal this season. It may be up there with the least shots of any starting striker for any team in any game this season, let alone in a game where we had 28 shots.
Of course one shot is far away from good but on the other hand Podolski tried to come into play but I can't remember much situations were it was his fault that the ball from the midfield didn't reach him mostly the pass was poor and gets intercepted by the Cardiff defence.
If you check out the passing from f.e. Walcott he made 6/27 passes forward (till the 65min mark, according to the first quote he should get punished for that, right ?) unlike Rosicky who made 4/18 backward passes after he came on for Flamini.
We also had 13 shots on target till Podolski came off we also subbed off Flamini at the same time btw.
After the subs we had 15 shots on target and Bendtner had 15 touches overall which were mostly not the starting point of one of the goal attempts so maybe our midfield was just poor with Flamini and Arteta or Cardiff was tired but Bendtner wasn't the cause that we became much stronger cause he played nearly similar than Podolski so I can't understand why one player gets such a punishment here.
#GoonersWorldExcuses
- Their goalkeerper had the game of his life
- We should have had 10+ penalties .. shit ref
- If long term injured player xyz would have been available we would have won easily