🗣”The way I see it, it is not numbers, I am an important part of the team”
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) July 7, 2020
Tottenham winger Lucas Moura on his lack of goals having failed to score in the Premier League since December 2019 pic.twitter.com/lYRPeqBl9T
Strange that Lucas Moura can sit and tell millions of Spurs fans that it’s not about numbers, when if he attempted to have that conversation with team-mate Harry Kane, odds are, that the Brazilian would be met with a look of sympathy.
Sadly Lucas, it IS about the numbers, or players become occasional luxuries that people lose interest in. Which may go a long way to explain why Mauricio Pochettino still lacked faith in the boy, even after that miraculous performance gainst Ajax.
The 27-year-old looks too old to experience a renaissance at Tottenham, or anyone else. Sure, he is capable of turning it on, but what separates winners from losers in any professional sport is consistency.
Moura’s passing accuracy against Everton was appalling, 43% means that most of his passes went to the opposition. Sorry Lucas, but there’s no way any player can claim to be an important part of the team.
The most damning snapshot is ‘successful actions’, which encapsulates everything the boy did against the Toffees. 37% of Moura’s contributions overall were unsuccessful.
My advice would be to cut back on the interviews and train harder – and that’s the polite version.
Occasionally he’s been brilliant, he gives his all never hides and has a likeable personality. Once upon a time he was rated as a better prospect than Neymar. He’s too inconsistent to keep, I think he has a poor understanding of the game. He’s a typical Spurs buy where he comes with far too much hope attached and not enough cold eyed realism as regards his talent. He is one of the reasons we are in the trouble we are in. I’m not blaming him, the blame is for whoever thought he was good enough for Spurs. You look at what Liverpools’ front three produce, the goals they score and the mayhem they cause in opposition defences and you look at what Lucas brings. Time to sell him before his value declines any further. We have got to stop hanging onto players whose time was up long ago.
Hes shockingly bad, consistently poor
What! He gave them the ball back nearly half the time he had it? as a professional? Dropped! and shouldn’t be getting back in anytime soon. That cant happen again Lucus mate