Latte Lath
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dooderooni
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Just be glad we have a mobile forward who can score with his head as well as his left and right feet. Add in that he works hard for the team and you've got yourself a diamond and the sort of forward who'll propel you up the league.
If we can keep getting the service to him then he'll score consistently.
If we can keep getting the service to him then he'll score consistently.
iamborome
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Which is why we shouldn't sell Hackney.
BoroMart
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Only two centre forwards scored more goals than Lath in the championship this season. The two above won’t be in this league and I’m not sure Burnley, the blades or Luton have a better goal scoring centre forward.
Adam Armstrong 21
Jamie Vardy 18
Lath 16
I think he’ll be the best cf in the champo next year. Now to get a scoring lw and 10
Adam Armstrong 21
Jamie Vardy 18
Lath 16
I think he’ll be the best cf in the champo next year. Now to get a scoring lw and 10
JimboJenkins
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Always looks like he has no idea what to do with the ball then plonks it in the net.
NorthumberlandBoro
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Interesting how this thread has aged now we are 12 games, and over a quarter into the new season.
Latte Lath is currently on two goals in 12 games and lost his place in the first 11. @Laughing found my views on this thread amusing due to his superior 'analysis skills'. Apparently pointing out that LL scoring a handful of goals when our season was already over and our goals per game skyrocketed was not evidence of a world class striker due to be poached by Real Madrid for £30m.
Some people looking slightly ridiculous reading back on it, @Laughing and @Muttley particularly silly and smug.
Muttley
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[smugmode]
Resurrecting a six months old post in which you proved that you don't understand how to use statistics to further prove that you don't understand how to use statistics.
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Seriously, neither his scoring run nor his barren run prove anything one way or the other. I don't feel ridiculous about expressing my opinion at the time and neither should you.
UTB
J_Boro_Clock
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He has scored a few, will always miss a bucket load as his technique at times is awful but that's why he's playing for Boro and not Real madrid, probably finish on mid teens this year
BoroMart
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Plenty of people thought Brit was a goal machine on 12-14 championship goals a season, so…
Laughing
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I can't help myself.
If I read your post correctly you are saying me and mutley were wrong to judge latte lath last season on 12 matches, and to support that view you are using 9 starts this season? Have I got that right?
Well other than the fact you are talking absolute nonsense I said most of last season that lath was a 20 goal a season striker if playing most of the games, before he went in his goal scoring streak. My opinion wasn't based on the end of season form but on his performance all season.
Your post seems to be based on 9 starts this season. Hmm. I knew I should have ignored you.
'Hopefully the confidence will mean he picks up where he left off come August, I won't be hysterical either way.'
No hysterical knee-jerk reactions over here, you could learn a thing or two @Laughing .
His entire season form, excluding his end of season form, was, at best, mediocre. Similar to how he has started this when the games mean something.
Reading back I think my view was too nuanced for you, you are more of a 'man kick ball in goal, therefore he good' type of analyst.
Hopefully, he picks up and gets 20 goals and really helps the team push on, I won't be hysterical either way.
No hysterical knee-jerk reactions over here, you could learn a thing or two @Laughing .
His entire season form, excluding his end of season form, was, at best, mediocre. Similar to how he has started this when the games mean something.
Reading back I think my view was too nuanced for you, you are more of a 'man kick ball in goal, therefore he good' type of analyst.
Hopefully, he picks up and gets 20 goals and really helps the team push on, I won't be hysterical either way.
BoroMart
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We analyse players in 4 quadrants:
Physical - latte has some impressive physical attributes, he is very quick over 10 yards, strong, has a brilliant salmon-like leap, and can run nonstop for 75mins. He’s a premier league player in this respect. 9/10
Technical/tactical - he lacks a little consistency here. Some times his technique can be excellent, as shown by some of his goals at the end of last season, but it’s inconsistent. Tactically he’s not too shabby, he gets lots of chances because of his reading of the game and tactical awareness. It’s just his technique lets him down at times. I’d rate him at 6 in this quadrant
Psychological - clearly a confidence player, when he’s happy and playing well he’s unstoppable but he’s also a little fragile. In some level
I think the summer transfer window has made him lose focus too, not in a stroppy kinda way, but it’s not surprising he lost a bit of form after having that opportunity of prem wages dangled and then pulled away he’s a 4/10 in this area
Social - he seems very popular with the other players, they were chuffed for him when he scored the other day. We don’t hear stories of him in any trouble and with such a toned body he clearly isn’t on the beer all the time..just quit the vaping mate 8/10
When he is psychologically focussed and has a bit of form he can batter this league, but he can also be a passenger when he feels nothing is going for him and self doubt creeps in and then his touch leaves him.
He will pick up again, and he will drop off again. That’s the nature of this kind of player. Buy low sell high is the goal with layers like this. It’s unlikely he’ll be hot for a whole season, but if he does he could get 30 goals. It’s also unlikely he’ll be cold all season and score 6
I think his ability to score goals is more down to chance than psychological. I don't think he ever appears to be lacking confidence. His technique is really poor, worse than you've scored him, but that poor technique doesn't always work against him. When he has a shot his dispersion is so wild it means that some of those shots fly in to the top corner and it's unpredictable for keepers. It also means a lot of easy chances get missed and we see that with his finishing regularly. A better player with tight dispersion that aims for the corner probably misses as many as Lath does when he's aiming for the centre of the goal.
Watch his head when he shoots. He's often looking at the place he is aiming and the ball flies in the opposite corner. Some of his goals look spectacular because of it and some of his misses look dreadful for the same reason. The header he scored last week looks a lot to me like he's aiming for the left corner due to his head movement but it's come off the side of his head slightly and gone in the right corner. Did he mean to do that? My gut says no but it's a goal and that's what counts.
He will have runs where he scores goals he shouldn't and runs where he misses goals he should. Technically dreadful but his physical attributes and his movement gets him in good positions so he will always get chances.
BoroMart
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chance is just a way of describing that things are out of our control when often they are in our control.
Technical/tactical. 4.5/10 for technique, 7.5/10 for tactical
hmm, not sure last weeks was a mishit, but he has had some that are.
He's a typical physical quadrant player, can have horrific moments, 'lucky' moments, is unpredictable, purple patches and barren spells. Ideally Ipswich would have come in 2 weeks earlier, we would have got 20m and spent 10 on a replacement. He isn't the long term solution, IMHO, but he could have a purple patch and we sell next time.
Laughing
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You missed the man kick ball in goal quadrant mart.
BoroMart
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Yes that’s an outcome of being good at the other 4 quadrants
