13-06-2015, 13:14
Dancing,
You get to see far more of Tendayi than me! The bits I get to watch of him suggest that the only problems he has are inside his head.
He needs a clearer and quite simple idea of what people want from him ...... which is why I'd like him to focus on getting to the opposition box and shooting as much as he can. Lay-offs and crosses will improve ...... but as you say he is capable of scoring (he was a centre forward) ..... Once shot, lay-off and cross are all options presented by the attacker running with the ball, in the keeper's mind positioning becomes a real problem and it's a problem the centre backs face too - do they cover across or wait for the ball coming in .... or not?
The positive about my not seeing all his errors is that I do tend to notice the high percentage of dangerous and goalscoring moves in which Tendayi's name is mentioned. Equally despite the undoubted mistakes he makes, and despite his relative inexperience in defence, very few goals conceded seem to be down to him.
I'm sure you undervalue Tendayi's durability. He's there every game. In fact playing a lot of games seems a positive help to him. That has value.
I think you also undervalue the value of the confusion he creates in the opposition defence. Though there's a lot of truth in your criticism of him, a team full of tic-tac footballers all coming up with 90% pass completion rates don't create a goal without the wilder, unpredicatable talents of those who start a run and aren't quite sure of its final outcome. He's far from perfect .... but take a good look at the imperfections of some of the cheaper imports in the Premiership. He showed against Derby he'd handle the Championship. In this market £800,000 would get Leeds some dink from the fringes of the Bologna squad who can still pass the ball, but everyone knows his legs have gone. Tendayi's a snip.
You get to see far more of Tendayi than me! The bits I get to watch of him suggest that the only problems he has are inside his head.
He needs a clearer and quite simple idea of what people want from him ...... which is why I'd like him to focus on getting to the opposition box and shooting as much as he can. Lay-offs and crosses will improve ...... but as you say he is capable of scoring (he was a centre forward) ..... Once shot, lay-off and cross are all options presented by the attacker running with the ball, in the keeper's mind positioning becomes a real problem and it's a problem the centre backs face too - do they cover across or wait for the ball coming in .... or not?
The positive about my not seeing all his errors is that I do tend to notice the high percentage of dangerous and goalscoring moves in which Tendayi's name is mentioned. Equally despite the undoubted mistakes he makes, and despite his relative inexperience in defence, very few goals conceded seem to be down to him.
I'm sure you undervalue Tendayi's durability. He's there every game. In fact playing a lot of games seems a positive help to him. That has value.
I think you also undervalue the value of the confusion he creates in the opposition defence. Though there's a lot of truth in your criticism of him, a team full of tic-tac footballers all coming up with 90% pass completion rates don't create a goal without the wilder, unpredicatable talents of those who start a run and aren't quite sure of its final outcome. He's far from perfect .... but take a good look at the imperfections of some of the cheaper imports in the Premiership. He showed against Derby he'd handle the Championship. In this market £800,000 would get Leeds some dink from the fringes of the Bologna squad who can still pass the ball, but everyone knows his legs have gone. Tendayi's a snip.