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And yeh, this for me. Stats aren’t the problem, it’s just about understanding what they are based on and I’m not sure how a chance is defined here. A high quality chance stat would be far more useful, as well as making it “per 90”. It also just doesn’t make any sense at all that Jota is not in the table. He was on the same number of assists as Kent on Friday and for me, he creates higher quality chances consistently.

Celtic have their wingers wide but they run from very wide positions towards the centre when there is a cross about to come from the other side, and it leads to them being in loads of space every time. I think it was their second goal yesterday that was a textbook example of this. Abada has done it to us a few times too. It’s so simple but it’s an effective tactic that has been drilled into them, compare and contrast to our wide forwards.

These teams are levels above us in terms of fitness. I know some people think fitness should be a leveller of sorts but it isn’t always the case, better teams can afford to recruit a high calibre of athlete (like Ajax recruiting Bassey from us).

Matondo way too late coming on. A goal contribution within 2 minutes of coming on. The jury is very much out but he should be getting more opportunities given the competition he has.

Sakala has been great at one on ones tonight. End product needs to improve but he’s at least showing something.

I thought King was poor for that goal too, he seemed to slow right down rather than throwing his body in front of the shot.

It’s going to take a lot more than silencing the lambs at Halloween to convince me.

Between Lundstram and Sakala but I’ve opted for Lundstram due to Sakala not doing as much as he should have with his opportunities.

I’m a Gio critic but if anyone actually did predict a heavy defeat to the SPFL dross like Aberdeen they need their heads checked.

They don’t realise how pathetic it makes them look. They have no purpose in life without their hatred for us.

McInnes would have known that when you grab a goal at Ibrox you park the bus and frustrate the fans. They were very naive having a go today.

Exactly! No excuse for it.

That’s a good assist from Davies!

Tillman is perfect for the number 10 position, still surprised a lot of people don’t see that. He just needs experience and a decent team around him.

Fashion junior is not even that good at dribbling and he makes it look easy compared to Kent.

Tillman and Colak give me some hope.

Kent is so poor, wastes everything

At least we have two defensive midfielders on to shield the defence

That was shocking defending from King, looked like a wee boy. Tav and others not playing the whistle as well. Shambolic.

The stats say the opposite. See my comment in the man of the match thread, won more duels than anyone else and wasn’t dispossessed once. For comparison, Kent was dispossessed 6 times.

He certainty isn’t easily brushed off the ball, quite the opposite. For me, Tillman is one who should have a future here. He would do well in a proper team who play good football.

Agree with your ratings but I’d make a slight defence of Tillman. He won more duels than anyone else, 5/7 ground and 3/5 aerial. Also made 2 tackles, 6 recoveries and 2/3 successful dribbles, dispossessed 0. If that doesn’t sound that impressive, you should see the rest, they are generally abysmal. King didn’t make a single tackle or have a single successful duel, and he’s a defender. Kent actually had a much better game than usual in terms of duels but still only won 1 in 3 ground duels and zero aerial, he was dispossessed 6 times. FotMob rated Tillman as our best player, and that’s purely based on stats so take it with a pinch of salt, but my point is that I think he has been a bit over-criticised. I thought he was ok.

Our recruitment in Kent’s position has been absolutely woeful. I have been asking for strong competition for Kent since his first season but every season we have gone all in on Kent and only recruited cheap, back-up type players. As things stand even I see a role for Kent (rotation) if we stick to this formation because the competition is so poor. Morelos on the other hand has stronger competition and is getting more game time than he deserves. Go and check a picture of him from 2017 when we signed him, you’ll be shocked at how much weight he has put on since then.

Fair point, I take it back. I’d like a front two of Colak and Sakala. Colak for the goals and a decent aerial presence and Sakala for pace. We can’t stretch the game with Morelos up there, he is so slow. Colak and Sakala could compliment each other well and we would be much quicker counter attacking.

For me, it’s just not good enough though. Scoring goals is his main job and he is wasteful more often than not. There was one other notable occasion where his lack of any pace whatsoever meant a very good chance with him through on goal ended with a fluffed shot because a defender had caught up with him. If Sakala had been in that position he’d have got right in on goal. There were other instances too where he was sluggish. He did have good moments but it isn’t enough.