blah blah blah "I'm not a begrudger" blah blah blah "him racking up more goals against mediocre opposition and personal accolades" blah blah
Miguel Delaney did a pretty comprehensive dissection of Keane's scoring record about 18 months or so ago and conclusively demonstrated that more often than not his goals are critical to the outcome of a match and he has a very good record against top teams. Unfortunately it was on Eircom Sports Hub, which no longer exists, but it might be archived somewhere. Maybe somebody can ask him on twitter.
TOWK has inadvertently improved his appreciation of Keane. A few weeks ago he only scored against minnows, now he racks up goals against mediocre teams. That's a step up. Given that we're a mediocre team ourselves I think it's fair to say that his goals are indeed very important.Originally Posted by PatJR
It doesn't even show up on google anymore. Might give the Wayback Machine a spin.
And I never said he shouldn't be starting against those mediocre teams. All along, I have been questioning the wisdom of playing an aging MLS striker feeding on knockdowns against teams the calibre of Germany or Poland; instead of a pacier forward (like Long) who is intelligent enough to make runs for players like Hoolahan, Ireland and Reid to create opportunities and to launch counter-attacks. That's another thing. How do we change formation and/or accommodate players like Hoolahan, Ireland and Reid and continue with Keane in the side? Do we play Keane as a lone striker or do we just forget about changing formation and the way we play football against big teams and persevere with a 4-4-2 and using another striker as a human target for knockdowns for Keane? IDK.... if Keane performed or scored against these teams on any kind of recurring basis there wouldn't be any questions from me. And people can go on about Long or Stokes not being good enough but Stokes hasn't been given the opportunity and even Long has barely started competitively and when he does, he is doing donkey work for another player that doesn't have the legs or the workrate (a la Doyle).
At the end of the day, Keane is going to be starting come September anyways - no matter what - so all you can ask for is that he scores regularly in the MLS and he is doing that.
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searched his twitter account for mentions of Robbie Keane: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A...keane&src=typd
looks like it was published in 2011: https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/st...26066748858368
the bit.ly link resolves to this url http://home.eircom.net/News/robbie-keane-record.aspxA breakdown of Robbie Keane's record http://bit.ly/j2aE58
which is dead (of course) and doesn't appear on the way back machine or google cache
grrr
Ah, that's annoying. I outlined the gist of it above. If anyone wants to tweet him, I'm sure he'd send you a text file or whatever.
Breakdown of the Irish skipper's solid month of April in which he garnered 4th place in the POTM voting, with an outstanding 3.58%.
http://www.lagconfidential.com/2014/...er-month-april
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
I moved over to Southern California recently myself and I have to say Ive gained a whole new appreciation for why Robbie decide to come here rather than stay with some plodding mid to bottom of the table team in England. The lifestyle is just amazing. As long as he keeps scoring goals for Ireland it doesnt matter a bit where hes playing.
Its really not that complicated!!!
Meet the Korean food trucks yet?
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
I havent had the pleasure yet
Its really not that complicated!!!
Crosby87: Me rikey me food trucks.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Robbie missed a penalty last night as LA Galaxy lost 1-0 to Colorado Rapids. The penalty miss is at 05:30:
He didn't look confident in the run up, he didn't exude any confidence at all, you can see it in his body language, the strut of his gait (or the gait of his strut).
For all Keane's bravado we can now see it stripped down to it's bare worthless core value, when faced with the pressure of taking a penalty to save his team from the ignominy of defeat against a lowly opponent, his false mask of bravado hits the floor.
But he did stay in a Holiday Inn Express that night.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
That to me is a soft PK
Folding my way into the big money!!!
Recent article on Robbie Keane, from the Guardian.
Loss reminds Galaxy of the importance of Robbie Keane
With the blink of an unanticipated coaching move, Colorado has completely changed. Gone is Oscar Pareja's 4-2-3-1 that got so much out of threats like Deshorn Brown. Pablo Mastroeni instead employed a more staid, pragmatic, and narrow diamond midfield, part of a growing trend in MLS's tactical universe.
Like the Rapids, LA has shifted to a diamond, though Bruce Arena's has been a more progressive approach. Through April, the Galaxy led the West in average possession and had only been shutout once this season. The switch has also gotten the most out of players like Baggio Husidic, whose success adds to Arena's history of leveraging recycled parts.
For better or worse, though, LA's key remains Robbie Keane. Most of the time that's for the better, with the Ireland international collecting four goals in the Galaxy's recent four-game unbeaten run. Twice this season, however, Keane's looked like a degraded version of himself. In the season's opener, Keane missed two open chances and a penalty as the Galaxy lost to RSL.
Saturday was Keane's second bad game, the first indication of which came in the 37th minute. On a ball lofted to the middle of the area by Husidic, Keane had an open chance to pull back Vicente Sanchez's opener. Instead, the LA captain shanked his header over the bar, leaving him to tacitly apologize as he jogged back upfield.
The off night was confirmed midway through the second half when LA's leading scorer had a chance to salvage a result from the spot. Pushing his chance wide, Keane instead replicated his first week's misfortune: blown chances from open play; missed conversions from the spot; a one-goal loss.
It's the latest example of LA's over-dependence on Keane. At one time Landon Donovan's team, the Galaxy's shift began with the former captain's 2013 sabbatical, a transfer confirmed with Donovan mired in an eight-match scoreless, record-delaying run. In the four games this season in which Keane has scored, the Galaxy are 2-2-0. When he doesn't score, nobody picks up the slack, and they're 0-0-2.
A team known for its star power shouldn't be a one-man show, but more and more we're seeing that Donovan's influence is limited to spurts. As Saturday showed, the Galaxy's fate is increasingly tied to its 33-year-old focal point. So far in 2014, as Robbie Keane goes, so go the four-time champs. RF
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