Jota - Welcome Home!

I don’t think it was greedy to be honest. It wasn’t a simple lay off for a tap in, there were defenders there. He did what he thought was best and was only denied by a goal line clearance. He probably should square it but I don’t think it was done out of greed at all.

Anyway, thought he was absolutely brilliant again. You can tell he’s still not quite there physically but he’s just a constant threat. Defenders have no clue if he’s going left or right and his deliveries on both feet were on the money. Put in so many dangerous balls on his weaker left side.

The best is yet to come from him I believe which is a scary prospect. Going to be an absolute menace next season.

 

Gonna stick my neck out and disagree with the pass. I honestly don't think Kuhn made a great angle and was just as likely to have his shot blocked/saved. Easy to say he should have passed after what happened.

Everybody would've been raving about Jota had Bushiri not made a good goal line clearance.

 

Other than his pass he was decent again today


Made stuff happen

 

Both Khun and Maeda made really poor moves for the pass

 

Kuhn was in a good position imo. The issue is I don't know if he would have hit it first time as that's all the time he would have had, if Jota had passed. Not sure if I've seen him hit many first time shots.

 

Nobody made the right angle for him for the lay off. Thought he was class when he came on and a constant threat. Direct, tricky, quick , dangerous. Still think he's our best winger.

 

Tbh if he had laid it off to Kuhn, he wpuld probably have started his slalom run and ran out of space.

 

If he did we’d be dishing out the overplaying to pass it in if the pass is cut out or Kuhn miscontrols or misses a sitter, and today the way he was I’d not bet against the sitter either.

Jota beat the keeper with his attempt, and the defender done an incredible job to get in the position to even anticipate what Jota was doing for one, and for two getting the block in. He put his laces through the ball for that shot, not unusual for the defender in the position Rocky was to not control the direction of the block on the line and it to be deflected in, or scuffed off a foot and through their legs (which is something that happens an incredible amount of times btw) Jota done everything right to lead to a goal, the defender done an incredible job to save it from being one. Afterwards it’s easy to say he should make the pass, but if he did and it also didn’t lead to a goal, we’d be saying he’d done everything to get in the perfect position for him to shoot why did he pass. Sometimes we need to just give credit to the other team doing well, rather than something we done wrong like it’s inconsequential what the other teams done. That chance was one of them for me.