Ted Hughes wrote:brite blu sky wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:brite blu sky wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:I've watched Dzeko a fair bit on TV but only really taken a casual interest in his Youtube clips. (for obvious reasons) In tv games, live & recorded, I've always thought he looked as if he could do with a yard more pace (not that he's slow, not at all) but looking at some recent Youtube stuff since wthe deal became a reality, sometimes he looks a fair bit quicker on there, than he has done when I've seen him live. Whether it's the youtube effect I don't know but it's certainly got me thinking.
Looks like we are going to find out for ourselves though doesn't it ;)
There was a poster from Bosnia further up the thread saying that his pace was just fine.. and not an issue.
He's definitely not slow but it's certainly looked an issue sometimes when I've seen him lose out in a 50/50 that you would expect to see Ade or Tevez for instance run away with the ball, but perhaps he was protecting a niggle, off balance or just plain couldn't be arsed. My biggest worry about him is that he's looked a bit disinterested on more than one occasion when I've watched him so perhaps the two things are linked. He needs to go balls out for City & get himself a goal early in his career.
Certainly on some Youtube stuff I've seen he sometimes looks to have the pace to take on & run away from defenders though.
Maybe thats it, as you say doesn't look slow on some of the youtube stuff.
Anyway aside from the pace thing what he certainly is, is dangerous... with head and both feet. So in that sense he will have to be watched by defenders to try and stop him getting shots off.. another thing for oppositions to worry about if Carlos, Mario and Silva were not enough. You can see where the final piece in the jigsaw phrase comes from, with the ability to take the ball down and win long balls he is going to be a a bit of a dream come true for Tevez and Silva.
I can already see some teams opting for brown shorts v City later in the season.
As well as the obvious plan B type football, I've always looked at the idea of an aerial centre forward at City with reference to Kendall's Everton team, when they'd be passing & passing the ball around a packed penalty area unable to break through, then Sheedy etc would just knock a little diagonal pass onto the head of Graeme Sharp, 1-0 & off they went. Coincidentally, we must have had 50 opportunities to do that v Everton recently but nobody to pass to.
As I have been saying for a long while: 4-2-3-1... not soonest but shall come true.
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