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'He's not hopeless': Postecoglou defends Werner after Tottenham struggles

mawspurs

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Ange Postecoglou says he will "persevere" with misfiring forward Timo Werner, likening the German's form to that of Brennan Johnson before his current hot streak.

Source: Standard
 

Col_M

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Ange has earned the right to ask for patience. Not sure Timo has though.
 

kev1nxxx

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I trust Ange more than you. I think Werner is a very important part of how we currently play and those thinking he's about to be dropped for Moore are going to be very disappointed. Yes he is having confidence around putting the ball in the net but the rest of his play is very good. If he was slotting those chances people would be demanding we buy him now before anyone else did. He is creating chances and space in area nobody else are for us right now. The more simplistic will say well if Mikey or Sonney were on the end of those chances we would have scored more, imo without Werner we would not even have created those chances anyway. I hope Ange continues with him regardless of the chinless wonders "concerns" anyway and I think he will and will be vindicated.
 

Phantom

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Werner just needs a bit of luck but I fear he has Soldado's luck. He needs to play more relaxed, we know he is not as clinical as some players but he will create/be involved in more and so it should even out but at the moment he is trying too hard.
 

ultimateloner

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Moore isn’t going to replace him this year. Not the same level of physicality.
He is Son’s sub. Can’t finish but is better than Son in certain areas so might Ben get ahead of him against certain opponents.
 

razor1981

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Timo is 28 and has scored 177 goals in 484 games (for context, when Sonny was 28 he had scored 183 goals in 510 games). He clearly has the ability to put the ball in the back of the net, he's just completely lost all confidence at the moment.

As the old cliché goes, he probably just need one (or two) to go in off his arse and he'll start scoring for fun again.
 

jolsnogross

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Interesting that Ange mentioned hopeless. Did the questioner use that word?

His finishing is absurdly bad. It's a shame the type of chances he appears to land in are one's where he has time to think. He could do with an instinctive shot or tap in just to get this monkey off his back.

But we also knew this is how he performs in front of goal. Interesting to see if it turns around if the team keep performing well.
 

Snuzzy

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Ange isn't allowed to say "look, if he had finishing and composure he'd be a £60m+ player and we'd never have gotten him as a loanee, but he doesn't and we have, so we'll live with the player he is".

But that's the size of it.
 

Stavrogin

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(To the tune of 'he ain't heavy')

He's not hopeless. He's tim'werner.
 

Pistols At Dawn

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I agree I was frustrated to no end at the two 1v1 fluffs and then that terrible cutback cross Timo made behind three Spurs players. But we won the game and all is forgiven.

Really rooting for Timo to bag a goal tomorrow. Imagine what that would mean for our front line, once Odobert, Sonny, and Richi are back from injury. A wealth of options.

COME ON TIMO!
 
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