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Alexis Mac Allister


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3 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Endo is an average journeyman. Of course he doesn't play 90 minutes every game. If you want to play that kind of player every minute of every game, you want to finish 6th.

Right.......yet we still proceeded to concede 4 goals in the last 20mins of the last 2 games he wasn't on the pitch for? Sound that.

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6 hours ago, Kevin D said:


While I’m unsure how you’ve concluded that he is “an excellent tackler”, I agree with the rest of your praise. 
 

We saw him excel between December and March doing most of that.
 

The problem is either side of that where his physical limitations and lack of DM nous has seen him be at the centre of the ridiculous number of chances we concede.


From watching the games mainly. He very rarely does sliding tackles. What he’s extremely good at though, is getting close to the opponent, using his body and muscle the opponent off the ball. There was one great example of this in the Villa game, first half I can’t remember the excact time. Villa player running with the ball, he just steps in, picks the ball off him and sets us on the attack. 
 

Apart from that stats from various sources will tell the same story, he’s very good at tackling/winning the ball. A Google search or two will show this.

 

The Premier League official site has him at 6th place of their tackling stat, and there are other sources like this one: https://fbref.com/en/players/83d074ff/Alexis-Mac-Allister

 

 

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The whole "he's not that sort of player, he can't do this, he can't do that, it's not his game" is wrong. The whole point is he's a midfielder who does most things well. 

 

The problem is we defend like psychos and that can therefore expose players in ways where they will look terrible. Obviously if you put a player like him as the 6 with the way we play, you're creating lots of situations where he will be uncomfortable. It doesn't mean he is bad at those things.

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He is quite tenacious, and doesn't do the ' jogging alongside opposition players ' thing that the likes of Jones do.

The negative to this is of course that if you go wholeheartedly to win a ball and you get it sllightly wrong, the opponent is past you and away. Probably explains the seeming contradiction from the stats.

 

I think he has shown massive potential, and needs to only be used as a 6 in desperate circumstances next season.

 

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2 hours ago, sir roger said:

He is quite tenacious, and doesn't do the ' jogging alongside opposition players ' thing that the likes of Jones do.

The negative to this is of course that if you go wholeheartedly to win a ball and you get it sllightly wrong, the opponent is past you and away. Probably explains the seeming contradiction from the stats.

 

I think he has shown massive potential, and needs to only be used as a 6 in desperate circumstances next season.

 

 

If slot plays the formation he does now, it'll be two sixes, which will likely be completely different to what klopp asks in that role. This is why it's so hard to judge what we'll do. Macca'll likely be pretty good with another DM next to him, like he had at Brighton. There's just so many unknowns for next season. 

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23 hours ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:


Well, agree to disagree.

 

He’s great in the pressing, good control in tight spaces, extremely difficult to knock off the ball, is an excellent tackler, makes a lot of interceptions and blocks, has good vision, can play the long pass as well as the short one, very good at threading it through the lines of the oppositins and has a good shot.


Weaknesses is pace, which means he’ll struggle whem the team looses shape and are too open. Also he’s made a bit too many mistakes on the ball for it to be an excellent season, I’ll say it’s been a very good one.


I thought we were discussing MacAllister not Endo

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6 minutes ago, stringvest said:


I thought we were discussing MacAllister not Endo


Haha, I’ve noticed your obsession with Endo.

He’s had a very good season as well, and him and Mac Allister are similar on a couple of things, one of them being that they both struggle defensively when we’re too open. 

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He was annoying me in the first half, was spending too much time on the floor trying to get their players booked. 
 

He might have got a couple of whacks, however, it’s also what they want. Disrupt the game, slow it down, stop start, stop start, continuously break our rhythm etc. 

 

He needed to man up and get on with it yesterday. 

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6 hours ago, Kevin D said:

He’s our best midfielder, but I don’t think he’s as good as people say he is.

 

He may very well be, but he hasn't been playing like he is so far this season.

 

He had a poor start when he was played in the #6, and now it looks as though he's taking some time to adapt with different personnel in a new look system.

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2 hours ago, 3 Stacks said:

I think he just needs to bite someone and then he'll be beloved.

I thought you Canadians were tougher than being poleaxed by mild Arctic breeze? MacAllister was an embarassing shithouse and deserves to be called on it. Fuck petty tribal bullshit about which team he plays for. Shithousing is shithousing. 

Speaking of shithouses,I hope you've insulated your Ma's basement.

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25 minutes ago, stringvest said:

I think comparing him to Modric is a bit much.  He hasn't regularly hit the heights with us that he hit with Brighton, and his performances this season have been pretty average.  


I just meant that aspect of his passing.

 

You and I share a lot of concerns about him as our chief midfielder.

 

I think he’s the guy who plays next to the guy.

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