I just had a look at the A-League stats table....Despite playing nearly every minute of every match this season Greenacre does not make the top 20 goal scorers list or the top 40 assists list.....Could someone remind me what he does again?( I know, I know...he runs around a lot)
To be fair, the service he gets is not wonderful.
I think you also need to look at the number of balls he gets played into him at half way whhich he controls and lays off commencing many of our attacks. He battles really hard and boxes above his weight in that regard.
You also can not discount the amount of defensive work he does in the opposition half and simply dismiss it as "running around a lot".
Sure he is no goal scoring machine, but have we looked good this year when he has not been on? I know for a fact he would not have given up on that diagonal ball from Ifill that Pavoloa did on Sunday.
Pretty much this.
The way we play means he is either having to try and win aimless hoofs up the park, and/or is having to play with his back to goal and dropping very deep and hold the ball up to link with midfield players. Which means he can't be in two places at once, he can't link up with a wide midfield player bombing forward and then be expected to get on the end of a cross that midfield player makes.
From all accounts, he was a bit of a poacher in England and has had to adapt to a whole new way of playing with us. To diss what he does as "running around a lot" suggests a huge lack of understanding of what he actually does. If he was allowed to spend every 90 minutes lurking in and around the penalty area, I'm sure he'd get on the end of a lot more chances. The way we play doesn't allow him to do that.
Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.
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