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I hope Ben scores loads of goals at the euros and Lfc can at least get 25m for him .....
He's not a bad striker
He's not suited to klopp style of play ....simple ... Square pegs round holes...
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I think if you go back to when we were first linked with him 95% of thought it was an odd transfer and a waste of money.
He's proved us right he looks lazy. But I think he's just not very mobile.
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Carroll and Benteke have cost us a combined total of £67.5million.
Makes you want to cry doesn't it!
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problem is we don't have wingers or anyone that can put in decent crosses That's not the main point tho. Even without crosses he has missed pretty much every chance he's had. A good striker finishes one on ones. He has had at least 5 with an open goal (Leicester) and still missed. Any player would prefer a one on one to a hopeful cross in to the box
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wingers would help stretch the play, not just through crosses, (only 30% of his goals at villa came from headers for the one trillionth time), like benteke had success at his previous club to villa, Gent, scored some nice sht easy goals there. Like most sports you play with width it makes it easier to concede though. You try play an open expansion passing game with wales rugby, they concede more. England playing very narrow so far in the rugby, haven't conceded a try yet.
That result last night has sent us all into meltdown understandably, lost some faith in the team. Caused panic even with myself, I need to look at the remaining teams in the europa draw and realize it's not the end of the world, still 30 or so other teams remaining who we can beat, we only have to face 5 of them including this team, if we can get to the end.
Last edited by Torres65; 19/02/16 12:55 PM.
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I would prefer a more direct approach to Benteke and his strengths, I don't think playing through Cortino, Firmino and Llalana type players doesn't really work and it needs to be mixed up a bit, at times it's far too intraquet, with hardly no end product...
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and why buy a striker and lose (your figs) 30% of his striking affect ? due to not being able to deliver decent crosses to him ? It's not losing 30% of his striking effect, almost half the goals he scores from headers, you can't tell me another striker cannot head in. Benteke delivered exactly a half conversion rate at both his old clubs, 41 in 82 games at villa, he's scored 6 from 12 starts in the PL (10 sub apps), again half conversion rate, you could say he's actually done well, but not for a bigger club. Even if we haven't seen him score 2 in any one single match, which he could have already done if he would have been able to finish 1v1s opportunities he had.
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ok torress I keep saying as you
as an opposition side defender what would you think they would think they will have the most trouble with his ground play or aerial ability ? if I was a decent defender I would be more worried about his heading ! why did we buy him ? for his great link up and ground play ability! I think not ! imo of course post like this make me question if you know lfc, and know that that's not our style of football, therefore why would it change over night As I've said before I think we'll be wasting a lot of talent if we build the team around this guy.
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Interesting how deep benteke keeps playing in this match for villa v leicester last season. If he wants to come deep at times 442 dia is perfect, I'm fed up of giving this obvious suggestion, it's like klopp doesn't want to start benteke and sturridge together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGnf9_5p-ws
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stick two good crossing wingers either side of him and he is a goal a gamer. awesome in the box when delivery is right..we never deliver and his confidence is shot to pieces..for everyones sake he needs to move. i know klopp says he was going to buy everyone but it really does sound like he wanted him at dortmund...makes u wonder
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