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Evo1883

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You're comparing apples with oranges. When BTA plays he is extremely central, virtually as a second striker at time. When Sakamoto plays he plays as a winger, as he is a winger. I do agree he could attack the box more but he is usually attacking the back post when EMC is getting the ball in.

I think people are getting a little bit carried away with the QPR result, and putting 2 and 2 together. We created way more on Saturday than we did against QPR, 4 xG Vs 1.27 xG. The issue is players only hitting the target 4 times despite having 28 shots.

EMC scores that header from Sakamoto's brilliant cross, we win that 3 or 4 nil.

BTA has had a good start to the season though.
Yes id just like to see them maybe invert a bit more often to really have more shots themselves
 

skybluecam

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You're comparing apples with oranges. When BTA plays he is extremely central, virtually as a second striker at time. When Sakamoto plays he plays as a winger, as he is a winger. I do agree he could attack the box more but he is usually attacking the back post when EMC is getting the ball in.

I think people are getting a little bit carried away with the QPR result, and putting 2 and 2 together. We created way more on Saturday than we did against QPR, 4 xG Vs 1.27 xG. The issue is players only hitting the target 4 times despite having 28 shots.

EMC scores that header from Sakamoto's brilliant cross, we win that 3 or 4 nil.

BTA has had a good start to the season though.
to be fair we had 15 shots blocked which never go down as on target

But yeah this is the point, you replay that game and we win it probably 8 times out of 10. And if one of the earlier chances had gone in, it would've eased the pressure, i think we would've won 3/4-1.

It would be great if we could find some way to get Simms a bit of confidence back. I don't really rate him but he's definitely capable of better than he's playing right now.
 

Speedie's Head

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He's a very very good player tbh. Again, another one that seems to have gone up a notch. Think out of all the hyped Peterborough superstars we may have got the best one, top recruitment again.
He's coming along, he'll beat his man all ends up but his crossing is still very random. I think he often just doesn't look up because he's concentrating so hard on the ball and then he doesn't know where the support is and who's making a run for him so the ball get's wasted. He'd be better just playing for the corner sometimes or cutting inside and shooting himself more regularly.
 
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