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Player Watch: Moussa Sissoko

tooey

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SpursD22 said:
Honestly how can you be a experienced professional footballer playing at the highest level and yet he shoots like a amateur. Why isn’t he practicing his finishing in training?
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It's more than just finishing. His striking of the ball in general is horrendous (for a pro). I think some people are just born with 2 left feet, he just happens to have every physical trait required to be a footballer and has got by on that alone.
 
isaac94

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never seen a professional footballer with a worse shot, too many times has it aimlessly blazed over, today twice, the crucial liverpool miss last season
 
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isaac94 said:
never seen a professional footballer with a worse shot, too many times has it aimlessly blazed over, today twice, the crucial liverpool miss last season
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Yeah unfortunately, it feels harsh because he gives everything he has got but a player with better quality in those spots and we'd have had such a different outcome.
 
werty

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SpursD22 said:
Why does people think Winks job is to spray passes everywhere? He kept it calm, slowed down the tempo which suited us and also he worked his ass off
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Sissoko done that as much as Winks, which was very little, and isn't as worse defensively. If Winks was so good at that then they wouldn't have been camped on our half for most of the second half. It wasn't until Sissoko's running abilities came into play late on did we get a foothold back in the match.

The truth is one player isn't going to dictate the tempo against a team that presses us like Arsenal did. Certainly not Winks anyway, and he's shown that since he started with us. There's a reason why the ball nearly always ends up with Lloris or the CBs sending the ball forward or out wide.


We can take this to the Winks thread if you want.
 
Danny1

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Personally I think we have all been duped a bit from last season. Sissoko last year was the player that held it all together due to his constant fitness, pace and strength however he still wasn’t an amazing centre midfield, just our best one at the time. Since December we have amassed 16 points which isn’t really good enough and it’s in midfield where we are a bit lost.

When everyone is fit, for me, sissoko can’t be in the team, he isn’t technically good enough for a club of our stature that wants to maintain position and push teams back. He is a willing runner which is great but just look at what Ndombele has done already and how good Lo Celso has looked in his cameos, especially today. It’s a difference in class.
 
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Sissoko is a limited footballer and in four games this year has shown that he is not good enough to be playing week in week out for us. It also goes to show how shambolic our central mid. situation was last year when he looked the best of the lot.
 
kaz Hirai

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Offers more than winks, if only he had that end product though.

I guess that's what we hope from NDombele, but he has a ways to go to get Sissokos monster fitness
 
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The guy has done fantastic to change his game and his attitude is spot on, can't knock him.
But he's not a midfielder in my opinion, at least not in the role he's being asked to play. He's great at breaking play up and relieving pressure with his running, but after last season when he surprised everyone; teams have figured him out. Stand off him to prevent him running past you and close down the simple forward passing lanes and he's nullified. He doesn't have the quality to complement our attacking game when in possession and looks out of his depth in the final third.
Play him as a number 6 in front of the defense and there is a role for him there. Poch has to take huge credit for his resurgence but there's a limit to his potential.
 
THFCSPURS19

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werty said:
Sissoko done that as much as Winks, which was very little, and isn't as worse defensively. If Winks was so good at that then they wouldn't have been camped on our half for most of the second half. It wasn't until Sissoko's running abilities came into play late on did we get a foothold back in the match.

The truth is one player isn't going to dictate the tempo against a team that presses us like Arsenal did. Certainly not Winks anyway, and he's shown that since he started with us. There's a reason why the ball nearly always ends up with Lloris or the CBs sending the ball forward or out wide.


We can take this to the Winks thread if you want.
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Winks made 6 tackles today, 2 more than any other player on the pitch and 5 more than Sissoko.

Sissoko's good at driving with the ball, yes, but he has minuscule end product.

I don't know if this is specifically what you're getting at, but I find the criticism of Winks that he passes backwards/sideways - and the defence of Sissoko, who passes forward nowhere near as much as Winks - ridiculous.
 
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THFCSPURS19 said:
Winks made 6 tackles today, 2 more than any other player on the pitch and 5 more than Sissoko.

Sissoko's good at driving with the ball, yes, but he has minuscule end product.

I don't know if this is specifically what you're getting at, but I find the criticism of Winks that he passes backwards/sideways - and the defence of Sissoko, who passes forward nowhere near as much as Winks - ridiculous.
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Making tackles ≠ good defensively.

Maybe I'm wrong about Winks today, and maybe I'm expecting too much.
 
THFCSPURS19

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werty said:
Making tackles ≠ good defensively.

Maybe I'm wrong about Winks today, and maybe I'm expecting too much.
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I don't think Winks is that good defensively either, but I don't think Sissoko is much better, and I'm still yet to be convinced that Sissoko adds more to us than Winks.
 
theShiznit

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I think he came in when we massively needed him and silenced a few people with a huge improvement on what had gone before.
But he is and always will be a very limited player, he has power and pace, but agility, touch, passing/shooting where to go when we're in possession, understanding of space, are all at the lower end of the spectrum.

Simply put he is not good enough to be a CM in a possession based football side (which like it or not we are) we have better than him and i applaud Poch for his loyalty but IMO the time has come to take him out of the team.
 
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