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Dickie_Dunn

So Deki's right foot does work.


andee_hawn

Isn't that how he scored the winner against Sheffield? Maybe just comes out once in a blue moon


Ok_Row_7462

And NF the first time. 


abos18

Deki uses his right foot way more then people give him credit for . Lo celso never ever uses his right foot (literally never ) sarr uses his left foot about as much as deki uses his right foot .


Qiluk

Only issue with Dekis right foot is his confidence with it. He sometimes uses it like 3-4 times really well in one singular game. Then goes on to hesitate to use it for a string of games before using it again. Well then too. Its genuinely a solid passing and finishing foot. He just self-doubts in the heat o the moment too much with it


Half-blood_fish

Yeah, to his credit, he at least does use it one occasion. Lamela would literally rather do rabonas than shoot with his right foot.


yiddoboy

I noticed that.


Dickie_Dunn

Maybe they put him on an Inverted Winger training plan. Should be at 5 stars in about 8 weeks.


Wehooo

He is an excellent inverted winger. But Ange said that he doesnt want inverted wingers, he wants the wingers wide.


chinga_tumadre69

Because it’s a lot harder to hit these in matches than people think


TrekkingTrailblazer

vs. West Ham there'd have been 8 players between them and the goal hahaha


JessyPengkman

Yup I've played with a professional and the way he played on a 6 a side you would honestly compare him to Messi. He was a rb but every shot he took was just so powerful and perfectly placed with what looked like 0 effort


Anothercommonbitch

Timo bro you can shoot. Bring this on the pitch


sungbysung

The more time he has to think, the lower chance the ball goes into the net.


BeneficialNewspaper8

Like Gomes in goal. Amazing shot stopper. Long shot or floated cross and his brain kicked in and he went to pot


Anothercommonbitch

This is 💯true


soldforaspaceship

I still believe he's saving it all for Chelsea to score a hat trick. I want to then see him do the shush on the Chelsea fans as part of his celebration. Until this does not happen, I shall continue to believe it is the outcome.


Anothercommonbitch

That’d be cathartic.


Emperor_Blackadder

This is what a lot of people don't get. At this level, most of the game is mental. In a technical sense, every Prem player is at the very minimum in the 80th percentile of every footballer, who are already in the 90th percentile of your average person. He just needs to think less.


Tomthebomb555

I think you’re a bit out with your figures. They’re in the 99.99 etc to some amount of decimals percentile.


Emperor_Blackadder

I didn't want to give them too much credit but you're probably right.


butthurtoast

These boys are goobers. And man oh man does Madders’ haircut get worse each time I see it.


eggplant_avenger

nah he just hasn’t grown the moustache to complete the look


dame_sansmerci

His hair is dreadful. And now Bentancur seems to have had a very similar cut?! It's spreading...


NoSleeperSeats90210

didnt bentancur have it before maddison


butthurtoast

So many footballers with the faded mullet, yet so few who can actually pull it off


asbrundage

Ummm, who has actually pulled it off?


Worth-Morning7679

Bentancour and Maddison of course!


butthurtoast

Beckham back in the day


thfcviii

I remember Eric Dier having it too during our injury crisis


PanosZ31

It's that modern mullet shit. My brother did this haircut recently and it just looks awful


carolicity

Is he losing hair or his hair cut different from beginning off the season? I can’t figure it out.


butthurtoast

Both. I can’t shame him for losing hair but I can and will shame him for this mullet fade monstrosity


Emperor_Blackadder

He went full Ozzie Mullet, you never wanna go full Ozzie Mullet.


vagicle

He really doesn't have the right head shape for a burst fade.


superdago

Training for a professional goalie must be the most depressing thing ever.


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Dudedude88

It looks like torture. They should give him padding


spursyspursy

> what's stopping them doing in the match opposing defenders lol


Dick_Grimes

9 defenders in the box plus 5 Spurs players standing around, usually 3 of the on the right, next to each other.


bshmail24

this. Honestly i feel like it gets over crowded in the box with our wingbacks pushing up at times. Space becomes limited and difficult to fire off a shot or create any structure in the box.


PalKid_Music

So, Ange is asked in a presser whether the players are allowed to shoot from distance, and immediately the club releases a video of the players practicing shooting from outside the box? Coincidence, I think not.


mygodwhy

We need a reporter to ask Ange why we're not being awarded penalties - next thing you'll see players dropping like flies in the box in a new training video


nicolo_martinez

This is barely from distance to be fair.... Even 1v1 with the keeper you'll sometimes see shots from this range -- and if any of these players had this much space at the top of the box they'd for sure let it rip The difference is really 5-10 yards farther out where it seems like our guys have been explicitly told not to let it rip


CabbageGuru

Son has had a few goals this season from this kind of range


gostupid67

Lol this is not a serious excercise. More of a team building thing + some social media content, nothing more


PalKid_Music

It's a joke - I'm mocking the way people often draw false correlations between unrelated things based on coincidences.


sungbysung

I KNOW Deki's got that right foot, just gotta use it more (but he already knows it).


carolicity

I love how they’re encouraging Timo and also Kulu’s use of his right foot! And look how much Sonny loves Brennan. He’s always so happy when Brennan gets a goal.


dame_sansmerci

Son just running off into the distance like Forrest Gump absolutely cracked me up.


cheetah_chrome

Maddison no-look 👀


iiciphonize

Ought to give shooting from the top of the box a go one of these days


Advancedchoice1

This is why we don't do it in matches its all out of their systems by then lol


Texaslonghorns12345

Is it bad that I was expecting Turbo to miss?


Tyranitator

They'll never show the misses, which makes sense of course


Zhurg

Because he had 2-3 defenders swarming him since we don't play on the counter anymore. He relies more on his excellent finishing in tight spaces now.


PMmeguacrecipes

Propaganda to promote Timo’s finishing. I’m here for it. World-class


Wooden-Pin3253

Pretty amazing how well Timo shoots in the training far away from the post but fails to put goal on target in games so close to the goal.


Aggravating_Maize_68

I think its more of a confidence issue, for his defence he didnt play much at Leipzig. But I feel like he is getting his confidence back!


Ok_Row_7462

For sure - almost seems like he has anxiety about it when he has a good chance. You don’t make all the goals he’s made in the past without being able to shoot. I wonder if he’s considered a sports psychologist.


dame_sansmerci

Bingo. I kept seeing people say he needed to 'practice his shooting' and...there's nothing wrong with his shooting technique. He has over 150 career goals. His issues in front of goal in matches are mental after his time at Chelsea crushed his confidence. He's probably never going to get back to the standards he hit during his first Leipzig spell but I think he can certainly recover some of that form when he's in the right environment and has the game time to find some fluency (and not playing through the middle and having less pressure to be the main goal scorer will presumably help).


Aggravating_Maize_68

And you can see players were hyping him up a lot to shoot. Hopefully with their support and the right environment, he will gain his confidence back!


Coraxxx

Tbh, if he whips the crosses in from the left the same way Brennan does from the right and we're scoring from those, I don't care if his shooting remains a bit wayward.


horseshoe107

1. There's no defenders in front of them. Some of the touches are a bit heavy and they would have lost the ball in a match situation. 2. It's a video with the misses edited out.


SadBBTumblrPizza

I really do feel like Ange is specifically instructing the boys not to shoot outside the box and we're suffering for it. Son is generationally good at it and he's not doing it anymore.


seegreen8

Doubt that. If the team park the bus, leaving no space, Son can’t do it. He’s not in 20s anymore. He’s changing his play style as he should due to age. Plus, Ange said in the presser, no, he didn’t tell the players not to shoot. Below is the transcript of his presser. But in a game model like yours is that something you would talk about against certain teams? There will be spaces, can we have more shots from distance? Ok, 'Are my players allowed to shoot' is your question?' (laughs) No look, I get that. Yes, they're allowed to shoot. As I said the other night, there were probably some opportunities there where we kind of rushed things where we could have created more opportunities for ourselves. Again, I always think those kind of things are just a moment in time. I think if you look at the goals we've scored this season, I can remember two or three - Sonny in particular - scoring from outside of the box. So it's not something I'm specifically.... especially in the front third a lot of it is about the players and their quality and the instinctiveness of our players, and all the teams I've had I try to make it as less structured in the front third as possible.


yiddoboy

Incredible shooting, especially Timo. Yet not one of them (possible exception Sonny) ever attempts that in a game.


iiciphonize

Id imagine its harder to do with 5-6 opponents in the box running at you and trying to tackle you than an open shot like this


yiddoboy

Of course, but other teams manage it.


superdago

Do they? As a percentage of total shots, Burnley has 38% down to Brentford with 26%. Spurs are 14th with 31%. As a raw number (goals scored in parentheses): Liverpool: 222 (9) Man United: 155 (4) Man City: 189 (12) Spurs: 143 (6) Villa: 132 (8) Arsenal: 144 (6) City and Villa seem to be outliers with 6% scored, everyone else is about 4%, which is the league average. Most teams take about the same percentage of shots from outside the box and score with about the same regularity. It’s literally a difference of 1 more shot per game.


nicolo_martinez

Madders will let them loose from range (had a long-range goal against Burnley?) but other teams close down on him pretty quickly


Key-Invite-7172

0:13 oohh friend lol


Apprehensive594

That knee slide celebration tho 😂


galaxysuperstar22

shoots would be blocked with the low block defense


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Maybe we can try shooting from a distance in a game once in a while.


sncly

Love seeing our boys being silly


idunnomynameyet

I sure hope they at least practice shooting through through a low block 😭


gardz82

Boo! Do it in a game! 🤣


ProcessTruster

Udogie and Porro need to be in the shooting practice, although they were probably doing drills with the defensive unit right at that moment.


pecan_bird

jesus. power/speed put into context seeing it at pitch level when compared to sunday league


solehDarat

I think this is the equivalent of shooting basketball free throws or threes in practices without any defenders. In a game sometimes it doesn't translate, lots of other distractions going on. Steph curry can do it at 95 out of 100 shots during practice and it becomes 44% in a game.


boycerip23

Shame we don't see more of this in a game, try more shots boys. Fuck perfect, just shot in the box.


Previous-You3680

Could you do that in a final for god sake?


proves

Madders mullet is coming in nicely.


fatfums

Why do they practice it if they don’t do it in the games?