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Player Watch: Erik Lamela

Derp

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The dribble tight to the line second half from his corner on the right.

That sums up Lamela for me. A nice bit of skill, but it amounts to nothing because he tries to finish it with his left. It very rarely ends with goals or assists, but when it does we get an amazing rabona goal. He runs around a bit and gets stuck in and people thinks it’s the best thing they have ever seen. Some nice passes here and there that gets elevated into greatness by some fans. Suddenly a simple pass is what made the goal and a good run becomes the most important thing in the world. Whenever he gives the ball away(and he does that a lot) it gets put under the same rug as his lack of assist and goals. For some odd reason it’s only Dele that gets hate when he is losing the ball.

Lamela is a usefull player, but not even close to being as important as Kane, Dele, Eriksen and Son. Somehow people think he has been as important for our recent success as our starters. It’s like he gets even more credit for being injured. He can stay with us and it would be fine, he is a good backup and occasional starter and he can be sold and we would be just as fine.

With Kane and Dele potentially out, Lamela can hopefully show himself a bit. Make some noise and get us some points. It’s a good chance for him to try and win a starting role, he needs some good performances if he ever wants to be a starter again.
 

Hengy1

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That sums up Lamela for me. A nice bit of skill, but it amounts to nothing because he tries to finish it with his left. It very rarely ends with goals or assists, but when it does we get an amazing rabona goal. He runs around a bit and gets stuck in and people thinks it’s the best thing they have ever seen. Some nice passes here and there that gets elevated into greatness by some fans. Suddenly a simple pass is what made the goal and a good run becomes the most important thing in the world. Whenever he gives the ball away(and he does that a lot) it gets put under the same rug as his lack of assist and goals. For some odd reason it’s only Dele that gets hate when he is losing the ball.

Lamela is a usefull player, but not even close to being as important as Kane, Dele, Eriksen and Son. Somehow people think he has been as important for our recent success as our starters. It’s like he gets even more credit for being injured. He can stay with us and it would be fine, he is a good backup and occasional starter and he can be sold and we would be just as fine.

With Kane and Dele potentially out, Lamela can hopefully show himself a bit. Make some noise and get us some points. It’s a good chance for him to try and win a starting role, he needs some good performances if he ever wants to be a starter again.
Dele is fine
 

ohtottenham!

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That sums up Lamela for me. A nice bit of skill, but it amounts to nothing because he tries to finish it with his left. It very rarely ends with goals or assists, but when it does we get an amazing rabona goal. He runs around a bit and gets stuck in and people thinks it’s the best thing they have ever seen. Some nice passes here and there that gets elevated into greatness by some fans. Suddenly a simple pass is what made the goal and a good run becomes the most important thing in the world.
Who's saying those things? You're creating straw men aplenty, and you're pretty clear that his end product amounts to nothing. He can be an effective player for us like he showed today imo. When we have a fit squad, he won't be in the first XI, but he can be very effective when needed.
 

Hengy1

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He's at a concert?!
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faze_coys

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Good analysis on motd on how his sub affected the game - mainly down to his movement and positioning in tandem with son and dele

Exactly the kind of attributes that don’t get credit from a lot of our fans
 
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Derp

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Who's saying those things? You're creating straw men aplenty, and you're pretty clear that his end product amounts to nothing. He can be an effective player for us like he showed today imo. When we have a fit squad, he won't be in the first XI, but he can be very effective when needed.

So you are saying i’m creating straw men, and then do the same? I was describing his nice dribble after the corner that amounted to nothing because he tried to finish it with his left. Ain’t saying his end product always amounts to nothing, because he clearly has scored and assisted goals. If you cared to read i’m even pointing out his nice rabona goal.

You just have to go a page or two back to someone who is clearly delusional, talking about how Lamela is creating dread in opponents and how he made the Eriksen free kick goal and everybody else only contributed. Also how his job isn’t to score goals and he could be like Bale, but decides not to. Honestly read like some sort of fanfic.

“He can be an effective player for us like he showed today imo. When we have a fit squad, he won't be in the first XI, but he can be very effective when needed.”

That’s pretty much what i think, so it’s not like our opinion of Lamela differs that much. I don’t really get what your problem is...
 

kcmei

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Lamela was chasing down every Bournemouth player at 90 minutes. Seriously, right from one end of the pitch to the other. You can never fault his mentality
 

Spurs 1961

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Lamela was chasing down every Bournemouth player at 90 minutes. Seriously, right from one end of the pitch to the other. You can never fault his mentality
Absolutely he and Son bring an infectious energy to the whole team. Other players are more laid back which is fine in the roles they play but to press as much as we
Do needs players who clearly demonstrate that we will fight for every ball.
 

ohtottenham!

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That sums up Lamela for me. A nice bit of skill, but it amounts to nothing because he tries to finish it with his left. It very rarely ends with goals or assists, but when it does we get an amazing rabona goal. He runs around a bit and gets stuck in and people thinks it’s the best thing they have ever seen. Some nice passes here and there that gets elevated into greatness by some fans. Suddenly a simple pass is what made the goal and a good run becomes the most important thing in the world. Whenever he gives the ball away(and he does that a lot) it gets put under the same rug as his lack of assist and goals. For some odd reason it’s only Dele that gets hate when he is losing the ball.

Lamela is a usefull player, but not even close to being as important as Kane, Dele, Eriksen and Son. Somehow people think he has been as important for our recent success as our starters. It’s like he gets even more credit for being injured. He can stay with us and it would be fine, he is a good backup and occasional starter and he can be sold and we would be just as fine.

With Kane and Dele potentially out, Lamela can hopefully show himself a bit. Make some noise and get us some points. It’s a good chance for him to try and win a starting role, he needs some good performances if he ever wants to be a starter again.
Didn’t mean to mischaracterize your post, and I may have been a little harsh as you did give more balance later on in your post. But I’ll try and explain how I read your original post quoted above.

To me, your first para highlighted the negatives more than anything. You start with “that sums up Lamela for me”, which introduces an assessment of the player…”nice bit of skill…amounts to nothing, because he tries to finish with his left”. “It rarely ends up with goals and assists, but when it does we get an amazing rabona goal.” We had one rabona goal – what point are you making here?

You don’t seem to mention any of the qualities he has which contribute positively to the team, apart from an incredibly skilful, but still a freak goal.

Then, you’re critical of other posters for overrating Lamela’s contributions, and use hyperbole to do it…”He runs around a bit and gets stuck in and people thinks it’s the best thing they have ever seen. Some nice passes here and there that gets elevated into greatness by some fans. Suddenly a simple pass is what made the goal and a good run becomes the most important thing in the world”.

I read the posts you were referring to, and while I don’t agree with all the opinions, I don’t read “the best thing they have ever seen”, or “ the most important thing in the world!”

Each time it seems like your minimizing Lamela’s contributions to make your point “He runs around a bit and gets stuck in… some nice passes here and there…a simple pass…”

I guess it’s how we frame our opinions in our postings, and what we use to support our opinions. It’s also a case of how we read others’ opinions.
 

rambu

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Looks like those members thinking Poch doesn't rate him and that he's on his way were spot on... :(

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/tott...amela-nearly-back-to-best-mauricio-pochettino

I didn't get that vibe at all, especially after reading the article - tbh I didn't get that feeling after what you quote neither. It's a pretty positive article, with Poch saying Lamela's almost back to his best and that he (Poch himself) felt the way he managed Lamela was 'fantastic', which feels a bit odd but anyway, I didn't detect any hint from this article on he's on his way out at all.
 

LexingtonSpurs

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I didn't get that vibe at all, especially after reading the article - tbh I didn't get that feeling after what you quote neither. It's a pretty positive article, with Poch saying Lamela's almost back to his best and that he (Poch himself) felt the way he managed Lamela was 'fantastic', which feels a bit odd but anyway, I didn't detect any hint from this article on he's on his way out at all.
Yeah, I am not sure if @SlotBadger was simply being sarcastic, or not...
 

Bulletspur

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I didn't get that vibe at all, especially after reading the article - tbh I didn't get that feeling after what you quote neither. It's a pretty positive article, with Poch saying Lamela's almost back to his best and that he (Poch himself) felt the way he managed Lamela was 'fantastic', which feels a bit odd but anyway, I didn't detect any hint from this article on he's on his way out at all.
He was having a go at those who say he was leaving, by being sarcastic. That's how I viewed it in light of the emoji
 

Sp3akerboxxx

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I'm a big fan of lamela but there is no denying that he is a very one footed player.

Then he goes and bangs one in from 20 yards on his right foot.

I fucking love football.
 
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