If Bello was 5m closer towards goal Endrick may have seen him easier & whipped it over. From the footage Bello does appear to be in Endrick's 16x9 (1 to 1.8 to be precise) eye view prior to the attempt just as he travels left of the defender. His body angle is aligned with Bello. Bello wasn't that slow, he was initially, the third RM player 'in line' behind. As many of you know our eye sight field of view is like a TV, approx 16x9, look straight ahead and move your finger at the side backwards until it disappears. Did Endrick see him? Would he hear him with the crowd ambiance? Should he have shot when closer? If he would have top bin'd it, 0-2. He is a kinda likeable Maverick. Warp factor three speed, raw, top notch & ... young. The most watchable player & definitely not at fault for the 1-1.
Just to be clear it was a good, strong and accurate shot and forced the keeper to make a save and push it out, however, we weren't trailing or tied at that point and there was no need for desperatoin attempts nor did we have two goal cushion so there wasn't appropriate to be so liberal with the shot selection and ball retention. Fixed your post. I don't know why peope think that holding the ball would have only resulted in a few seconds being run off the clock. You take the ball to the corner and hold it until a defender kicks it out then you take your sweet time with the throw in or you force the other team to have to start possession from deep in their own half of the field or turn around and pass it back and keep finding the next open player until there aren't any and then kick it to the corner flag and go back to the first option.
It’s a boneheaded move. He can go to the right of the defender, slowing the game down rather than at full sprint, and cut the ball to Bellingham when he arrives free in the box. He can drive into the box and take a shot from closer to the goal. Or he can shoot from 30 yards when 1v1 with a backtracking defender. If you choose the third option you cannot miss, and you certainly cannot miss the target completely. At the absolute minimum you have to force a save. He is young and hopefully he learns but that is a mistake of the brain, not just shot technique. It’s total lack of awareness and decision making. Speed merchants and shot merchants come and go. If he wants to be more than the next Julio Baptista then he needs to learn how to play football as a centreforward at an elite club, where you are not the best player on the pitch so can’t take liberties with the ball whenever you get it. The goal we concede is on Rudiger. He gambles just like Endrick and it doesn’t come off. Both decisions lead to a -1 goal difference for us.
Bellingham was way behind Endrick, even if Endrick slows down and passes the ball to him, it doesnt assure a goal. Same if he decides to go past the defender and then shoot. Not being able to understand how that was beyond a 100% chance. Carlo's subs didnt make sense. The cowardly approach to defend like a small team is really shameful and we deserved no better than a draw, we have seen this multiple times RM isnt good at parking the bus, we are at our best when we play our natural game.
I liked the shot. Shows hunger, audacity and awareness of what he has in that left foot. Thats his strength, not dribbling or passing. Its crazy how a low percentage shot for everyone else looks like a high percentage shot for Endrick. But it must also a part of Ancelotti's "trust your feelings" philosophy. I honestly didn't think Endrick will be that good. This is almost Adriano Imperador level shooting.
He's a good shooter and that was a decent shot, but it could have been Roberto Carlos or David Beckham and it would still be the wrong decision. The only way something like that can be justified is after the fact and only if he scores or if the manager comes out and says he's told the player to do it.
• Bad decision • Not the reason for the draw • We’ll see a lot more of it; reminder how Vini would often ******** up • Should get better with age. The Yamal comparisons aren’t really fair. Yamal is an exception to the rule. Decision-making usually comes with experience.
Fixed my post. Why? The game still had a minute of regulation time left on the clock. The games was expected to have 5 or more minutes left on the clock because of an extended stoppage. That stoppage was very irregular. How many times did you see a game when both teams headed back to the locker room? I completely understand the corner flag play, but I almost never saw it being used with so much time left on the clock. Basically, if he went for the corner flag, he was not killing time. He was killing chance. You might have kill some time off the clock, but baswically, you are giving the ball back. Your NFL kneeling analogy was very bad too. People don't kneel down before the 2 minute warning. You are asking Endrick was heading to the corner flag during regulation.
"Fixed your post" is just internet sarcasm. Relax. The 89th minute of a football/soccer game is the equivalent of the NFL 2 minute warning. That clock can run down fast and game be over before you even get the chance to start your "2 minture drill" or it could drag out for what seems like an eternity.
Which is the entire premise of the finak 2 minutes in American football. You can literally run out the last 2 minutes of the clock by kneeling for each play if the other team doesn't have any timeouts to stop the clock, in which the game ends in exactly 2 minutes. Timeouts, penalties, video reviews, etc., can extend that time. I feel like a "you're moving the goalposts" claim is just way to ironic to pass up here.