Clearly had nothing to do with signing schneiderlein or anything.

xG enthusiasts, click here

lol

You have to type in the xG values yourself? the purpose of the tool just becomes calculating the mean and interval of confidence for a distribution of values, that exists everywhere already. Would be a lot more useful if you could just select a player, get the values and the statistical interpretations.

Remember that one time when Heskey scored like three goals in a season and he was picked to the England World Cup squad

Michael Owen tho.

Everyone keeps saying that Kane is the guy they can't afford to lose, but Spurs would be just as screwed if either Toby or especially Vert went down (unless Wimmer turns out to be an aptonym or Milos turns out to be alive) or god forbid Lloris who has been fantastic.

Spurs depth is mostly an illusion. The last few years Spurs two biggest problems have been 1. the center of defense sucks at defense, and 2. MFs aren't good enough to hold possession against good teams. Dier has captain's grit and hair and passport, but he's not great or clever on the ball especially under pressure. But when he can play with Dembele, Alli, and Son--three people who are absolutely strong on the ball and who are the calming influences Spurs haven't had in a few years--then it's a great arrangement. Start tossing Mason/Chadli/Townsend/Bentaleb into the mix and bit by bit the whole machine breaks down. We're not that deep. The four guys I just listed have some good attributes but none of them is capable of consistently making positive decisions in tough spots.

Eriksen is easily our most creative player but he needs other people to do the gruntwork on possession so he can make himself available at the perfect place & time; people want him to also be like Modric on the ball but that's not his game. I get why Dembele is not everybody's favorite but at this point Spurs fans who don't think he should be auto-starting (especially against good teams) are blind or xenophobic or logged into reddit. Dembele's presence makes Eriksen thrive and makes Dier possible. Not sure what happens when Son comes back. Son, Eriksen, Alli...these guys have to be out there. Lamela is working his guts out and becoming legit useful too, but he's emo and would probably wilt in a super-sub role. Dembele was great at DM against pool when Dier was suspended, but in a perfect world they're both out there. Spurs don't lose much without Dembele against Bournemouth or Qarabag but if you want to get T4 then those aren't the games that matter.

If Walker gets hurt it's bad too. Walker is never going to be 2012-13 Walker but this version is good enough. Against all odds the Rose/Davies combo is fine too; they're not like-for-like, Rose is better against **** teams who don't punish him for running riot, Davies is prob sturdier against good teams but whatever, either is fine, mostly. Kane can't get hurt either. He does so much off the ball that he's basically indispensable even when his finishing is uninterrupted crap like it has been this whole year.

Missed you

This is rather good.

Also mostly agree. Dier looks clueless at times where to position himself when they are on the ball, but is alright defensively. Kane's goal drought is in correlation with Eriksen's injury in the beginning of the season imo, but we'll see how they'll do now that he is fully fit.

I recently found out that Heskey was in the England WC squad as late as 2010. Was pretty shocked.

I was pretty excited to see him in the starting lineup against us to open to the WC that year. Was more surprised someone in an England shirt manage to out lol him

he's only the same age as klose, why is this a surprise

A lot of people with selective memories. Heskey was good for a good in the system England were playing for a long time. Although I will concede that 2010 is pushing it.

klose is good though

I dunno guess estimated heskey's agre a bit too high, and would've thought they'd have better options than a 30+ yo who scored 3 goals that season

(I know klose scored about the same, but NT etc)

yeah, heskey worked well for england, just not in terms of score points which is kind of a big deal to casualfan.jpg, I'm having the same issues with blades fans re: our choice of strikers, in that they'd prefer the bladey blade one based on scoring 7 goals compared to the other guy's 3, ignoring that two were pens, he's played an extra 500+ minutes and does **** all in terms of workrate

Heskey did stuff for England that you won't find on an Excel sheet.

By the way, does anyone know of any website that has assist information for the lower leagues?

The lower you go, the more assists the goalkeeper gets.

Didn't think this would be controversial but heskey wasn't good for England and that's why he was a Birmingham player in 2004 and somehow was still being selected until 2010. When he came on against France in Euro 2004 to help see out the game, he didn't and with the help of his then teammate Gerrard, England lost. That should have been the last time.

lol, heskey was pretty great when partnered with Owen or Rooney.

Or allowed them two to flourish would be a better way to put it.

heskey had the best non-fa-cup-final performance of any wigan player i've ever seen in the game vs shef utd on the last day of the season with survival on the line, so i have a soft spot for him

that said, post leicester he was mostly crap

still hate unsworth for that

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#Breaking #QPR have sacked Chris Ramsey, with Neil Warnock taking temporary charge of first team affairs.

Warnock lol.