Wonderful piece as always J. Can I offer a slightly different narrative for Eze: rather than being a ‘little overwhelmed’ it’s more that he’s adjusting to a different position and different requirements at Arsenal and he’s still showing flashes of his brilliance (see the goal against his old club and the assist for Martinelli vs City etc).
Also have you seen the XG stats vs Bayern (the ‘best’ and ‘most free scoring team in Europe’ no less!). This is a team that keeps on giving. COYG!
Thanks Ben, and I totally agree with you pal. I reckon the tactical depth and variety at Crystal Palace must be less taxing on the whole than at Arsenal even without changing position. There's always some sort of bedding in time to get used to new requiremtns (mostly) so yeah your defo right. I guess I'm always banging the "players are humans too" drum and pushing back on unrealistic expectations :)
And yeah man those XG! We really are amazing right now. It was a fabulous game in general last night, really entertaining between two excellent teams but we still dominated in the second half and made Bayern look weak. Incredible!
Wonderful piece as always J. Can I offer a slightly different narrative for Eze: rather than being a ‘little overwhelmed’ it’s more that he’s adjusting to a different position and different requirements at Arsenal and he’s still showing flashes of his brilliance (see the goal against his old club and the assist for Martinelli vs City etc).
Also have you seen the XG stats vs Bayern (the ‘best’ and ‘most free scoring team in Europe’ no less!). This is a team that keeps on giving. COYG!
Thanks Ben, and I totally agree with you pal. I reckon the tactical depth and variety at Crystal Palace must be less taxing on the whole than at Arsenal even without changing position. There's always some sort of bedding in time to get used to new requiremtns (mostly) so yeah your defo right. I guess I'm always banging the "players are humans too" drum and pushing back on unrealistic expectations :)
And yeah man those XG! We really are amazing right now. It was a fabulous game in general last night, really entertaining between two excellent teams but we still dominated in the second half and made Bayern look weak. Incredible!
Really good post and very enjoyable read as always
Thanks Northbanker! Great name btw 👍🏼
Excellent piece!! Casual Assassin….might get that on a No.10 shirt….Definitely stealing it…..
Thanks Mark, and steal away pal, it’s all yours :)