Bridge'srightfoot wrote:Wonderwall wrote:Bridge'srightfoot wrote:MilnersJaw wrote:He might have a good minute to goal ratio but the amount of sitters he misses or chances fucks up because of his dodgy football its unreal.
Negredo misses just as many chances as Edin. Edin is a goalscorer. He doesn't look pretty or smooth but the guy scores goals. The stick our fans give a player who's scored so many important goals for us is outrageous.
Its not just about the Goals though, its about all round team play and contribution and effort. You will see Negredo work hard, have a good work rate at trying to close down play and win the ball back when we do not have possession, Dzeko most of the time will wait for us to get the ball back for him before he breaks out of "Jog Mode".
He could wok harder you're right. However, the criticism he gets is over the top. Milners Jaw said he should score more and misses a lot of good chances. He does indeed miss a lot of chances but so does Negredo and so does Aguero. Probably as many as he does.
Edin's work rate does need to improve but all our strikers have areas of their game where they need to improve. Aguero needs to pass more, Negredo needs to start scoring away from home, Jovetic needs to get on the pitch.
But it seems our fans need a boo boy for some bizarre reason. First it was Kolarov but now he's playing well, attentions have been turned to Dzeko.
There is something quite telling though. This is a thread about a player who has just scored his 50th goal for us, many of them important goals for us, including one of the most important goals in our history against QPR. How many people have said 'well done Edin for 50 goals'. Not many. The majority of posts are leaning towards criticizing him.
With Aguero injured and no sign that Jovetic is real, we will really need Edin this season.
I think he will have a good 2nd half to the season.
The excuse that the team 'doesn't play to his strengths' is no longer valid (if it ever truly was) because we now cross the ball & we also play balls over the top & through defences from distance, so it's upto him to score from them. He will do but he'll also miss, as will Negredo, but he should get bucketfuls in this team.
He has been working harder in recent times too, but clearly, he is simply not as good, as strong, as skillful, or as clever as Negredo when used as a target man. So if we play a game where we need an out ball (like we did v Bayern at home) we need to be sure we use Negredo. Dzeko, in that role, in those circumstances, will let us down, in the same way that Yaya will let us down if we ask him to pick up runners from midfield.
Both players are very similar imo, in that they are huge assets & huge liabilities at the same time. Yaya gets away with stuff Dzeko doesn't. We need to use both where they are effective, but not rely on them in other areas as they will let us down.