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Hoddlegenius

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The more times I watch his hat trick from Wednesday, the more amazing it gets! None of them were easy / simple finishes, his footwork was amazing and his finishing was ‘arrow like’ ?
 

CrouchPotato

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Really happy we bought Lucas instead of Pulisic. Thought it was always one of the other at the time. Lucas has scored important goals all season, players seem to really love him. Good guy, and fantastic feet and finishing! Still only 26 which always surprises me, he’s been around for ages.
 

SUIYHA

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He's been poor

Always Townsend with maracas.
We need to upgrade our PSG rejects this summer.

Buy cheap, you buy twice. There’s a reason Mahrez was £50m whereas he was £25m.

He's brainless. That was always the fear with buying him. I don't think poch ever wanted him.

What a big difference two months makes in football - and I'm not having a go at any of you in particular just think it's worth highlighting what seemed to be a fairly widespread opinion about him from our fan base not very long ago.

His hold up play I think has been much improved when having to lead the line, and and he is proving an absolute menace when running at teams with the ball at his feet. Regardless of the speed he can run at, I think there are very few players in our squad who could have manouvered in such a tight space to score the second goal he did on Wednesday night - really was a superb goal.

Now once again to add to the list - he has scored important second half goals this season at Old Trafford, Anfield, the Nou Camp and now the Amsterdam Arena in the semi-final of the Champions League. If this is the trend he plans on continuing he will become the epitome of a big game player.
 

double0

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Aug 29, 2006
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I will say , I had at times been critical of Moura when he over plays going down dead ends or having a lack of consistency to his game. I have also been on Son case too both on their day/game are unplayable but imo still need to be more consistent.
 

double0

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The awkward moment when you realise that Lucas has more goals than Zaha this season.
Moura is just as skill more quicker and scores more goals ...I was trying to work out how many goals he has. might have score more than Son too.
 

hughy

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Nov 18, 2007
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Only 1 assist in all comps this season, which surprised me. 15 goals makes up for that, though. All in the PL and CL too.. I don't want to be too critical of him, as he's quite rightly the hero of the moment.
 

double0

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Aug 29, 2006
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Only 1 assist in all comps this season, which surprised me. 15 goals makes up for that, though. All in the PL and CL too.. I don't want to be too critical of him, as he's quite rightly the hero of the moment.
Yeah there is more he can do to improve ie assists ...really great he scores important goals and against the best teams that is a great habit
 

wrd

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I'm interested to see how we deal with the dilemma of playing Son, Kane, Moura. I know there's an argument that Moura and Son are both better centrally and we've seen times where they and Kane have tried taking up the same space. I'd look at the England formation where we have Sancho/Sterling and Kane plays a little deeper in his 9 role and feeds both of them a lot. Then we have the issue of where best to play Dele who seems to benefit from being right behind the striker.

Personally I'm open to

Sissoko Eriksen
Dele
Moura Kane Son

However leaves a lot of responsibility defensively on Moussas shoulders. I just don't want to leave Moura out at the start personally.
 

Bulletspur

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Oct 17, 2006
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Also, even if I had been as damning of Rose as you imply, vitriol is ugly, particularly when we should be focusing on something joyous. You don’t see me calling out the fellow who said ‘Dele is technically poor’ do you?.
You just did! :)
 
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