MackemsRule:5244313 said:
In his 45 minutes Sess played 2 successful forward passes and created one chance, the pass to Giaccherini which he skied. He received the ball on 8 occasions
In Ji's 45 minutes he played 6 successful forward passes and created 3 chances, one being his lovely through ball for Altidore. He received the ball on 20 occasions.
And that was from a quite poor Ji performance.
Sess did nothing but have a negative impact on our performance in the first half. I don't know if his heart isn't in it or he simply is in a bad run of form. But to only get the ball on 8 occasions as our main talisman then somethings definitely wrong imo.
So Sess was given the ball on 8 occasions, that's dreadful for the rest of the team passing wise.
Of those 8 he managed 3 forward passes?
That tells me we weren't getting the ball to him, not that he was crap.
I'm not disputing Ji made a couple of passes but overall he WAS crap, brushed of the ball with ease.
I saw the Wardrobe door chance that he should have done better with, I struggle to recall the other two chances you mention.
Opta stats mate, I know one of the other two was a square ball to Vaughan, which he sliced wide. Can't quite remember what the third was
I know Ji wasn't good, he was still however much more willing than Sess to make himself available for passes, which is why Ji received the ball a significant amount more than Sess. Then Ji layed it off to another attacking player (he played 2 passes to Johnson and 2 to Giaccherini and 3 to Altidore) Ji's 7 passes to his other 3 attackers meant we were able to push up as a unit and threaten more from open play
Sess played a combined total of 4 passes to his other 3 attackers (3 Giaccherini and 1 Altidore, none to Johnson)
Most of Sess' received passes were in the final third which suggests he wasn't dropping deep to collect the ball and instead the team had to push forward without arguably the most key position when it comes to creating chances. Ji on the other hand only received a few in the final third with the large majority coming in the middle, on the right.
Sess was crap today, his lack of willingness to drop deep to collect the ball is undoubtedly the main reason for that
Having talent in one thing but you need to have the right attitude to match the talent and atm Sess doesn't have the attitude.
Ji was better than Sess today and I look forward to seeing a fully fit, confident Ji playing
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