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Moussa Dembele
Topic Started: 28 Jun 2016, 11:59 AM (860,317 Views)
KrnyBhoy
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mick405
22 Feb 2018, 09:43 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:40 PM
mick405
22 Feb 2018, 09:39 PM
He's pretty shampooe as a lone striker isn't he. Doesn't seem to have the work rate to be a single focal point.
He is good as a lone striker , being a lone striker does not mean midfeilders arent allowed to support you though.

He showed last week what he can do as a lone striker when he has people supporting him once he has the ball.
I'm pretty sure I didn't say that..

However, if our midfielders are pinned back in defensive positions, he needs to get himself moving into the channels to act as an outball. Very rarely, if ever, does he do that. Him winning the ball in the middle of the park, with 2 centre halves immediately on his back gets us nowhere.
He does run the channels and does it well he is always on the side of the play looking too link up with the winger . We couldnt even try hit the ball up the channels today . I have no idea why we didnt try and play it like last week , directly up to him . We just seemed to pass it sidewards and it had nothing to do with dembele
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22 Feb 2018, 09:47 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:44 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:42 PM

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He has, and this season he's been minging at it.
He's had some of the best individual performances of the season from any player for us this season playing in that role.

The issue, again, is the lack of support from the midfield. It was nothing to do with Dembele not running the channels.
When?
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No disputing he’s way off last season’s form but he’s far from being alone in that regard.
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22 Feb 2018, 09:51 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:47 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:44 PM

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He's had some of the best individual performances of the season from any player for us this season playing in that role.

The issue, again, is the lack of support from the midfield. It was nothing to do with Dembele not running the channels.
When?
Last week, Pittodrie, Bayern at home.
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In all honesty I will not be bothered in the slightest when he is sold in the summer.
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Again the midfield are to blame for Dembele doing nothing.
Perhaps the midfield are currently wishing they had a striker who pulled the defence, worked the channels, showed for the ball and tried to link play?

Pity that guy is injured.

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nakasboots
22 Feb 2018, 09:54 PM
Again the midfield are to blame for Dembele doing nothing.
Perhaps the midfield are currently wishing they had a striker who pulled the defence, worked the channels, showed for the ball and tried to link play?

Pity that guy is injured.

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Ste
22 Feb 2018, 09:55 PM
nakasboots
22 Feb 2018, 09:54 PM
Again the midfield are to blame for Dembele doing nothing.
Perhaps the midfield are currently wishing they had a striker who pulled the defence, worked the channels, showed for the ball and tried to link play?

Pity that guy is injured.

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The longer he’s injured the more attributes he seems to gain :worthy:
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22 Feb 2018, 09:52 PM
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When?
Last week, Pittodrie, Bayern at home.
That 1st half in Pittodrie, he was great aye, give you that. He's consistently disappointing though, and it seems to me anyway, that he's not the player we all hoped he was.
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22 Feb 2018, 09:50 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:43 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:40 PM

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I'm pretty sure I didn't say that..

However, if our midfielders are pinned back in defensive positions, he needs to get himself moving into the channels to act as an outball. Very rarely, if ever, does he do that. Him winning the ball in the middle of the park, with 2 centre halves immediately on his back gets us nowhere.
He does run the channels and does it well he is always on the side of the play looking too link up with the winger . We couldnt even try hit the ball up the channels today . I have no idea why we didnt try and play it like last week , directly up to him . We just seemed to pass it sidewards and it had nothing to do with dembele
Sidewards passing was horrendous. I'm talking about times where we're sitting deep, looking for an outball, someone to take the ball in and work us further up the park, he's not doing it. Prob be better served with a partner alongside him who can share the workload cos he doesn't seem able himself.
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22 Feb 2018, 09:54 PM
Again the midfield are to blame for Dembele doing nothing.
Perhaps the midfield are currently wishing they had a striker who pulled the defence, worked the channels, showed for the ball and tried to link play?

Pity that guy is injured.

:thumbsup: but but apparently MD does that??

Last year he had a point to prove and even then in a lot of the games it did seem he couldn't be bothered then a big game comes along and he plays a blinder, next game away to Killie or such like not that great. A lot of us allowed this as he is a young lad with potential and he can't be expected to be brilliant every week.

This year he is playing as if he think he has already proved his point and only plays well when he can be bothered, perhaps last week there were more agents at Celtic Park than were there tonight.

I will repeat that a £30m rated striker makes his own chances, has a better first touch and drags defenders all over the place to make space for the rest of the team...MD for me doesn't do that.

LG whilst not being able to hold the ball up as good as MD would have dragged that defence from one wing to the other, he is quicker at getting the ball under control and would have gotten us further up the park due to his ability to turn quickly on the ball on beat his defender, but I don't want to turn this into a LG v MD thread, that has been done to death, but MD like Sinclair for some folk on this thread can do no wrong and all their deficiencies they have shown this season seems to be down to the rest of the team :suspect:
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Mousse needs a midfielder who is prepared to carry the ball in behind
We don't have that unless Armstrong plays
The majority of the time we just play it wide and hope for something to happen
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He wasn't the best player last week.
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22 Feb 2018, 10:02 PM
He wasn't the best player last week.
Not by a long shot but it was perhaps his best game for us this season, which isn't really saying much.
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22 Feb 2018, 10:01 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:54 PM
Again the midfield are to blame for Dembele doing nothing.
Perhaps the midfield are currently wishing they had a striker who pulled the defence, worked the channels, showed for the ball and tried to link play?

Pity that guy is injured.

:thumbsup: but but apparently MD does that??

Last year he had a point to prove and even then in a lot of the games it did seem he couldn't be bothered then a big game comes along and he plays a blinder, next game away to Killie or such like not that great. A lot of us allowed this as he is a young lad with potential and he can't be expected to be brilliant every week.

This year he is playing as if he think he has already proved his point and only plays well when he can be bothered, perhaps last week there were more agents at Celtic Park than were there tonight.

I will repeat that a £30m rated striker makes his own chances, has a better first touch and drags defenders all over the place to make space for the rest of the team...MD for me doesn't do that.

LG whilst not being able to hold the ball up as good as MD would have dragged that defence from one wing to the other, he is quicker at getting the ball under control and would have gotten us further up the park due to his ability to turn quickly on the ball on beat his defender, but I don't want to turn this into a LG v MD thread, that has been done to death, but MD like Sinclair for some folk on this thread can do no wrong and all their deficiencies they have shown this season seems to be down to the rest of the team :suspect:
LG has been consistently shampooe in any game that he comes up against a decent centre half. The idea that he would have been the difference is absurd and shows the level we're dealing with on this thread.
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MD has a bad game it's down to lack of service. LG has a bad game it's eff all to do with service and he is just pish :lol:
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22 Feb 2018, 10:02 PM
He wasn't the best player last week.
He was sensational. Who was better?
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How annoying is this last page thing btw? Gonnae sort it out mods? Or give us a new thread?
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22 Feb 2018, 09:56 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:55 PM
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22 Feb 2018, 09:54 PM
Again the midfield are to blame for Dembele doing nothing.
Perhaps the midfield are currently wishing they had a striker who pulled the defence, worked the channels, showed for the ball and tried to link play?

Pity that guy is injured.

:lol:
The longer he’s injured the more attributes he seems to gain :worthy:
And every game Demebele plays further stretches Griffiths superior goals per minute played record.

Btw, pretty much every fan I speak to would rather Griffiths over Demebele and our recent run of dropping points coincides with the absence of Griffiths.
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