Thiago Alcantara

[Reckoner]

I don’t think enough was made about his performance yesterday. I was astounded by his play at times. He’s coming into form at the perfect time.

[Sandman40]

14 hours ago, Kevin D said:

Some beautiful passes played yesterday, shades of Lucas in his prime. What’s this fellas win percentage? Has to be in the 90s.

According to lfchistory:

Win ratio: 67.27% W:37 D:7 L:11

[aRdja]

4 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Sign them up.

[DJLJ]

14 hours ago, manwiththestick said:

His skill level and vision is ridiculous, it's like he's plugged into the Matrix, seeing multiple possibilities of what to do before he has the ball.

 

I wish we'd signed him earlier.

The amount of no-look passes he is playing is ridiculous. You can see that our other players at times aren’t ready for the pass, because he isn’t looking in their direction. Always looking for a forward pass, always looking to take out the opposition by playing forward through their lines. Really really good player. 

[Moo]

3 hours ago, DJLJ said:

The amount of no-look passes he is playing is ridiculous. You can see that our other players at times aren’t ready for the pass, because he isn’t looking in their direction. 

Well what's the point in that?  Ineffective, showboating, pisses me off.

[stringvest]

2 hours ago, Moo said:

Well what's the point in that?  Ineffective, showboating, pisses me off.

it's not ineffective though, is it?  And it's not showboating, it's giving the opposition 'the eyes'.  

[aws]

if you were walking towards him and that pram, you'd have no idea which way round you he's going. 

[Josef Svejk]

 

[dockers_strike]

I like Thiago but he has a tendency to have a once in a game brainfart that could be costly. His attempt to stop the ball going out for a throw near the halfway line that set up a Watford attack is an example.

 

Thankfully, we seem to get away with it. Long may it continue!

 

[Mcfaggen]

His ability to make space & change angles with a simple roll of his foot over the ball makes me think every other player on the park is playing a different game. 

[stringvest]

12 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

I like Thiago but he has a tendency to have a once in a game brainfart that could be costly. His attempt to stop the ball going out for a throw near the halfway line that set up a Watford attack is an example.

 

Thankfully, we seem to get away with it. Long may it continue!

 

it was actually quite comical and would definitely have made the end of season compilations had it resulted in a goal for them, but thankfully it didn't.  His overall contribution, though, and as always, dwarfed any rickets he made.  

[stringvest]

1 minute ago, Mcfaggen said:

His ability to make space & change angles with a simple roll of his foot over the ball makes me think every other player on the park is playing a different game. 

It's not only the fact that his teammates can give him the ball in any position, and he will hardly ever lose it.  Just as important though, is his immense defensive contribution.  He's second only to Fabinho in the whole team for recovering possession.  

[dockers_strike]

18 minutes ago, stringvest said:

it was actually quite comical and would definitely have made the end of season compilations had it resulted in a goal for them, but thankfully it didn't.  His overall contribution, though, and as always, dwarfed any rickets he made.  

I was quite expecting him to do the McMahon thing against arsenal where he lost possession, raced to the line to stop it going out, left the pitch got back on and played the ball before any oppo got near it. But the fact he was on his arse meant it was doubtful that would be repeated.

[Code]

That one pass to Jones yesterday was outragous, shame Jones blazed it over the bar with a poor shot. 

[Chip Butty]

3 hours ago, Code said:

That one pass to Jones yesterday was outragous, shame Jones blazed it over the bar with a poor shot. 

Beg pardon.......I think you'll find its actually ridiculous. Outrageous surely gets trumped by ridiculous every day like.  

 

Unless he's being truly ridiculous, of course.

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

I wasn't as impressed with his performance as others seem to be. He's obviously a class player but so far is a bit of a luxury player and still tends to choose the difficult option far too much.

[aRdja]

14 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I wasn't as impressed with his performance as others seem to be. He's obviously a class player but so far is a bit of a luxury player and still tends to choose the difficult option far too much.

Please elaborate on what you mean by a luxury player. He does his fair share of defending. His passing completion rate is also up there so that means he successfully executes the difficult option more than most. 

[3 Stacks]

"Luxury player" = he's Spanish and plays stylishly so I'm blind to everything else he does. 

[TheHowieLama]

He's the fuckin bomb.

[lebron]

Anyone with stats on how many interceptions and ball retrievals him and Bobby had yesterday?

[VladimirIlyich]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

He's the fuckin bomb.

I haven't yet seen this in a Liverpool shirt.

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, lebron said:

Anyone with stats on how many interceptions and ball retrievals him and Bobby had yesterday?

Dunno about Bob but someone posted on here that Thiago had 10.

[TheHowieLama]

3 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I haven't yet seen this in a Liverpool shirt.

Put a Liverpool top on the next time you watch then.

[Sparky]

5 minutes ago, lebron said:

Anyone with stats on how many interceptions and ball retrievals him and Bobby had yesterday?

 

[TheHowieLama]

That is why I come on her.