Are you telling us that you'd turn down a young/in prime Aiden McGeady in our squad right now?
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Are you telling us that you'd turn down a young/in prime Aiden McGeady in our squad right now?
He actually had me on my knees in the middle of the living room floor at one point, screaming at him, I think it was when he didn't get his head up to see Idah completely unmarked bursting forward on the far side. He really does get into some great positions, but too often is looking for contact to fall over and win a free, rather than actually trying to progress the play and either score or create something. I'm sure it's partly down to not playing regularly, similarly I think Idah gets better the more regularly he plays.
With Connolly, I'm sure there's a confidence issue with his finishing at the moment too, he's missed a few really good chances for club and country and that's a bit of a monkey on his back now. There was some interesting stats on the whoscored link posted earlier regarding touches and passes, Idah attempted 20 passes to Connolly's 9 off the same amount of touches (34). I think it probably shows Connolly has a little bit of tunnel vision on the ball (although to be fair to him he also was the one with the most shots and had 8 touches in the penalty area compared to Idah's 1 and 2 on the edge). No doubt Connolly was the bigger goal scoring threat, and if he starts to covert chances he could be phenomenal.
A bit more here if still interested
http://www.wearebrighton.com/newsopi...ly-to-grow-up/
Hard to argue with that article. The thing is though, Potter continues to stick with him, he must see something there.
But if he doesn't change his ways he will throw away his career, no question.
Whisper it but Connolly has gone and scored two against Swansea in the EFL Cup. 40 minutes gone.
Has he found his level?
Fap fap fap fap fap.
Connelly defo gets into great positions, he needs confidence and also to grow up
We might yet have a good player there
His goals
You can see the difference a bit of confidence makes just between the first and second. There's not a lot of conviction about the first and gets a very favourable deflection. Immediately, for the second, he puts it away with genuine confidence, it's never missing. I think Idah is similarly struggling for confidence a bit too, the fact he was the designated peno taker the other night and let another young player take it off him and miss says a lot about his mentality at the moment too. Hopefully both keep getting opportunities and start scoring regularly.