Sebastian Tounekti

Thanks for this. Another one I've got wrong today

 

2 for 2 some going

 

Not his best game on Sunday but still a decent shift. Won about 5 comers himself. And none of them could really get the ball of him. Hes got that expectation now if he doesn’t score or assist he’s not had a good game. His crossing is pretty 50/50 so needs a bit of work but has created plenty in games and they’ve just not been finished.

 

Jota never scored or assisted that much when settling in. Hopefully he'll develop just like him. If so, we'll end up with the strongest left wing in my life

 

I do think he has to show more end product. We've been built around high end product wingers such as Jota, Kuhn, Maeda and even Palma to an extent.

 

Not sure Maeda would fall into that category. He took a while to get going for us and is a very different type of player to the others, including Seb.

Tounekti's dribbling and threat is enough to create space and chances for others as he's now getting doubled up on, even if he isn't adding to his goals/assists he's a key player for us. Hopefully he can add that final bit to his game still though.

 

It's a funny one.

Maeda's final ball and finishing are huge issues but if you look at his end product statistically it's brilliant. He's here close to 4 years now in January and he must be well north of 50 G/A in that time. His movement, anticipation and decision making are probably key to having that so high up.

For me where Tounekti goes down is probably not so much his end product in simple terms. It's not as if he keeps getting into great positions and missing chances or his final ball keeps being poor. It's probably his decision making, it's probably his lack of anticipation in getting on the end of things. He tends to not release the ball earlier when he should. Hopefully it will improve as it's very difficult to carry an out of form team.

 

He's certainly got a Jota-esq quality on the ball to get round players and get into dangerous positions.

Just needs more work on keeping his head up and finding options so we can see end product from him.

With the right set up, assuming Jota comes back firing. We could have two fantastic wingers who could queue up play for instinctive players like Maeda and Kenny to latch onto.

Or alternatively if Osman keeps up with his promising performances, we could have a tricky, ball playing front three who could really open up space for each other and start spreading the goals.

 

He obviously can't yet but it'll be good for him to learn a few things off Jota when he's back fit..

Very similar when facing a man up but needs a bit of fine tuning infront of goal..

 

I really like him. Bit surprised by how mixed some folk are. He's one of those who, even when it's not coming off, takes the ball and tries to create. Might not have great numbers so far but he's created a lot of chances, or played a part in other goals.

 

Jota numbers came from a free flowing team full of confidence and goals from everywhere in the team so a bit unfair to compare atm with how the whole seasons panned out so far but I believe he will come good but time may run out when Jotas back up to speed!.

 

Jota also benefitted from a flying Kyogo's insane movement dragging defenders all over the shop. The pace of that front 3 who started at the weekend will help him out tbf.