To date, Joe Rodon has made 5 appearances for Spurs, and has yet to be on a losing side. Whilst 3 appearances were 2, 3, and 13-minute cameos, the Welshman has racked up two full games, against Sheffield United and Chelsea.
The only criticism comes in respect of incidents where the 23-year-old loses possession. This, one would put down to concentration levels, and to be fair, this discipline is ultimately about the consequences of giving the ball away.
Against Chelsea, Joe Lost the ball 7 times, 5 times in his own half and as a result gave us a couple of scares. During that game Eric Dier and Sergio Reguilon both gave the ball away with greater frequently, but it was losing control in vulnerable positions that made the situations worse.
Against Sheffield United the story was worse, 13 times the ball was lost, 7 times in the Tottenham half.
For contrast, against The Blades Ben Davies and Eric Dier (who both had poor games) both lost possession 14 and 16 times respectively. The point being, that Rodon needs to set his sights a lot higher than Spurs’ worst players.
More lies
The solution is getting a dominate holding midfilder in the mold of Dembele who can take a short pass and get it between the lines forward. Backs have a tendency to just getting it out and far away. What the system does is trying to turn them into ball playing backs. K.I.S.S. Any formation should have a midfielder who is going to relieve the backs and even the goal keeper of those responsibilities of start the attack.Give the ball to the midfielder and go play defense. One, the passer rating although misleading will be very high. Those stats will be littered with 5 and 10 yards dinks and dunks. The end produce is more important than the process of getting there.
Whilst Dier is culpable for lax passing and always has been, I suspect Rodon’s errant passes came from trying to play balls mid-long range to the inside right channel. Sometime overhit and sometimes wayward but basically bypassing the midfield – a low percentage gain as it doesn’t often come off. Sheff U did have bodies in and around the midfield two of Hojbjerg and Ndombele which prevented the ‘easy pass’ so I can kind of understand it.
Japh and rodon. The future
As long as he cant be bullied by an opponent every time a ball is whipped in he is fine by me.
He has the raw material he will learn.
He will make it and we can ship Dire off to Stoke
Yep.
Are you david icke? Madder than a bag of hammers
Yep
Utd still won though and I don’t see the Foxes wavouring anytime soon, they have quality throughout their side.
I suspect the way things are “mapped out” or “rigged” changes retroactively to match the results – that’s usually the case.
If Jose doesn’t win it, Pep will. If Pep doesn’t, maybe Klopp will. And if not, it’s probably rigged for Ole. See where I’m going with this?
I saw the second half of City-Villa, and that was a great match – at 0-0, a City defender made a sliding tackle facing his own goal to divert away a low cross, and ended up hitting the ball with his other leg and sending it just over the bar, with no control whatsoever. McGinn slipped on the wet grass when shooting from inside the box. Cancelo hit the bar. Sometimes, the ball bounced in the Villa box like a pinball machine.
Point being – you can’t rig the way a ball moves. You can’t rig contact with the ball. You certainly can’t rig someone slide tackling a ball at top speed on a wet surface, facing their own goal. There’s a lot of football that can’t be fully controlled, and that’s the beauty of it – that’s how Villa put 7 past Liverpool, how Real went out to a 3rd tier side in the cup, and how Marine got to face us in the FA cup.
Utd seem to have overcome Fulham and got back to the top. Don’t underestimate them.
Experience is a big part of becoming an a complete defender, he’s learning at the top level now. We must give him time.
So we’re finishing 2nd based on that?
City are back to the top, as I said couple months ago if it ain’t Jose it’ll be City….Utd struggling at Fulham tonight, expect them and Foxes to start to wavour to makeway for the Pep/Jose old storyline revisted.