exactly 
I said it the entire season and i'll keep saying it. We cannot use giovinco as a starter, ever. The fact he did just shows how pathetic our frontline was bar vucinic. Against chelsea, he showed exactly what i want from him. Enter a game in wich we are leading, opponents pressing, us defending deep, and their defenders getting tired and stretched.
THEN, bring on the $#@!ing vinco, and he will have his space to run in. In this very situation, he was VERY good at parma. Yes, we should keep him for that very reason, but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT START HIM. Defenders will man handle him.
Wide position ? we did that a few times and giaccherini was better then him. He cant get past his marker, he's only good at cutting back and early crossing. thing is, as an impact player, he would be able to do this much easyer.
We need diamanti to give us much needed versatility, and Higuain for the kick in quality.
Having diamanti, vucinic, llorente and higuain for both starter forward spots, is the way to go. having giovinco to come in when we are leading against stretched defences, is just making perfect use of our 5 strikers
I said it the entire season and i'll keep saying it. We cannot use giovinco as a starter, ever. The fact he did just shows how pathetic our frontline was bar vucinic. Against chelsea, he showed exactly what i want from him. Enter a game in wich we are leading, opponents pressing, us defending deep, and their defenders getting tired and stretched.
THEN, bring on the $#@!ing vinco, and he will have his space to run in. In this very situation, he was VERY good at parma. Yes, we should keep him for that very reason, but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT START HIM. Defenders will man handle him.
Wide position ? we did that a few times and giaccherini was better then him. He cant get past his marker, he's only good at cutting back and early crossing. thing is, as an impact player, he would be able to do this much easyer.
We need diamanti to give us much needed versatility, and Higuain for the kick in quality.
Having diamanti, vucinic, llorente and higuain for both starter forward spots, is the way to go. having giovinco to come in when we are leading against stretched defences, is just making perfect use of our 5 strikers
He can be used wide. He can for sure dribble past his marker, the problem when using him in the middle of the park is that most of the time defensive midfielders and central defenders are around the area, so he doesnt have space to run and leaves him just with the option of engaging with the central defenders from the front, and most of the time with is back to goal. When he does that, he doesnt have what is needed to dribble past them, as to do that u need a combination of 3 things: good technique, good decition making and acceptable physical presence, because no good central defender will let you past swiftly without duking it out. His dribbling is ok, his sprint is good. but his first touch, decition making and physical presence are not good enough. Because of all this negatives, we see him running into bad spaces, sending the ball way too far from him, or just going facecheking the chest of a defender.
On the wing, he is given the space and the option to go back and forth at will,to CHOOSE what to do , or do those quick one-twos he loves and overuse, and is not forced to engage on 1v1s always. We need to remember that he also has a decent cross, and surprisingly, a very good free kick shot that we have underused A LOT. Since he is a peedy fellow, he can easily sprint into the corner area and force defenses to go wide to mark him, and if he succeds in a one on one in that area, it means trouble for the enemy team. Now mre than ever that we will have *crossfingers* good headers like llorente and a new striker. Llorente in particular is very tall and loves to score from headers.
Because of this IMO, before benching him forever and use him as a sporadic "impact" player... we should try this or simply sell him.
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