Leigh Griffiths

He's been a lone striker almost all year, The guys scored 37 goals and is probably drained mentally with the pish service he's getting lately.

 

It's definitely fair to say.

A lone striker needs service. Simple.

He wasn't getting the service yesterday, yet he would still have had a double but for the underside of the bar and the post. Roberts should have scored the rebound of his first effort. When the ball came down off the bar, it could have bounced off their keeper and went in. Simply due to their extreme luck, the ball bounced off him and went out.

Had either of those things happened, none of this would even be getting discussed in this thread today.

 

That's always valid to say but even looking at yesterday, he saw plenty of the ball he just did nothing with it. He's too greedy, always wanting to shoot from 30 yards out when there's players better placed. As I said, the games in Europe he did get involved, he just missed too many chances. Obviously at times the service could be better. But in the games where there is a lack of service, he has to take it upon himself to get involved. Drop deep, look for the ball etc.

He isn't suited to being a lone striker and it's not his fault that he plays as one every time. However, for being the main striker at a club such as Celtic, his general ability on the ball is dreadful. He can shoot, he can head - he can't do much else. His touch and control for a player at this level is * poor.

For me, POTY is Tierney. He's the only player this season who has barely put a foot wrong.

 

In regards to him being too greedy, it's made me wonder about how many assists he has this season. Where's ILTC when you need him? :smiley-laughing002:

I think it's harsh to have a go at Griffiths for yesterday, he was unlucky to hit the metalwork twice and on another day we would have had a win and would be praising him.

 

That's the margins with him though. If he scores it masks how mediocre his all round play is. If he doesn't, it's there for all to see.

Said it all along, if the goals dry up people will star to realise how substandard he really is.

 

he reminded me of stokes yesterday...and i * hate stokes....

Greedy, shooting from anywhere...not holding it up well

 

This has been my problem with Commons for ages, albeit Commons is/was a better player.

If they score a goal, that's all people remember and his performance is forgotten about. However, when they don't score it's evident how average they are.

 

I understand your point of view, but he's obviously putting in the work to try and improve, otherwise he wouldn't have scored as many as he has this season.

Given that scoring goals is the very definition of his job, he's still done magnificently this season.

 

You can see Griff's confidence and energy slipping away like the rest of the team.He's carried the team with help from Tierney and its no surprise he's running out of steam.As for that miss by Roberts he could have taken a touch and still scored it was the defining moment in the game for us.

 

The big difference is, a Hooper or a McDonald would have held off the defenders and brought us up the park a heck of a lot more. We badly miss that when we play one up front. Samaras was excellent for the one up top v them as well for the very same reason. The ball just bounces of Griffiths and that's exactly why I wouldn't have him anywhere near the Scotland Squad either.

 

Interesting to read griff was shouting at deila at half time to get someone up front with him when he was going up the tunnel .

 

I don't think people just forget how average they played because they scored a goal. In my case anyway it's a case of having a goal threat on the pitch even if they aren't playing well overall, and how invaluable that can be. Commons in particular can drive me mad when he plays but I'd be willing to bet he scores more goals and we win more matches when he's on the pitch. If he plays he may give possession away a bit more than a McGregor or Rogic, or possibly slow our play down but for me he makes up for it with the brilliance he can produce. Scoring goals is the hardest thing to do in football and this season it has showed in how heavily we have relied on Griffiths to do so.

 

Where you see that ?
Ridiculous if true.

 

Not really, better tactical foresight than our own manager.

Sevco hardly tried to attack us for the last 100 minutes of the game yesterday, they seemed happy to just pass the ball between their defence and midfield and our set up meant they could as they always had a free defender that whenever it looked like they might lose the ball they passed it to him and then started again.

Griffiths like most fans was probably thinking if he had Richards on with him, they could cover their two centre-halves and it would basically * Sevco's game plan which just seemed to be hold the ball as long as they can whenever they got it because they always ended up passing it back to their defenders and then re-starting and were allowed to do it over and over again.

It would be interesting to see how many shots Sevco actually hit against us after the 25th minute of the game or so, I bet it was only like 2 or 3 shots in about 90 minutes of football yet they must have had atleast 60% of the possession.

 

Looked it up there, Sevco had 3 shots from the 29th minute onward, so including added time they went the last 96 minutes of the game and only had 3 shots, 1 in the 2nd half, McKay goal and 1 other in extra time but they for sure had more possession, so it shows they weren't really interested in trying to attack us and had we put another forward on we could have stopped them being able to recycle possession between their defence and midfield a lot better by not allowing them to pass it back to their defence and force them to try and go forward. It would have resulted in us getting the ball back a lot quicker than we were managing with just Griffiths up there himself who couldnt get near their defence as they just passed it to the other one whenever he went close to one.

 

Great composure for the penalty

 

He's the least of our problems at the moment

 

with celtic just playing one up front it allowed the two rangers full backs to bomb forward as the centre halfs would have covered griff so if celtic had played two up front then one of the deadco full backs would have had to stay back . I begin to wonder if I should apply for the celtic job :bbpd:

 

Bang on with this. Although I find it strange our midfield and defence weren't able to do anything similar when its essentially the Celtic style of football.

 

If he can score 40 goals whilst operating as the only striker for most of the season, it would be scary to see how many we would score if he had another decent striker up top with him every week.

Elyounoussi perhaps?