Ndombélé - Dembélé with added ability
Ndombélé - Dembélé with Added Ability
Tanguy Ndombélé is a wonderful signing for Spurs and demonstrates the added pull the club now has as a result of reaching a UEFA Champions League final.
The Frenchman is 2 months older than both Luke Amos and Anthony Georgiou and 4 months older than Josh Onomah.
You have had it confirmed now (the deal was struck in May) that Tanguy Ndombélé is a Spurs player, but why was he one of the most sought after young central midfielders in Europe?
He has been brought in to add power, pace and break opposition lines, something we struggled with last season with no Dembélé to dribble through them.
He has been brought in to add power, pace and break opposition lines, something we struggled with last season with no Dembélé to dribble through them.
He is a central midfielder with the ability to adapt to wider positions and different systems. That shows he is an intelligent player. Adaptability is important, we don't want a team of robots who can only play the one way.
It means he is comfortable out wide and in areas of the pitch other than the central midfield comfort zone. This is one thing that made Dembélé such a good player, he played both sides of midfield so was not out of his comfort zone when pushed out there from central midfield.
Ndombélé has superb dribbling skills allied with power and this allows him to break the opposition lines, be it the first line or a defensive line in the final third. Teams set up and a player who can ruin that shape is gold.
Importantly he can dribble under pressure which is aided by upper body strength, speed and balance.
Having played in several positions gives him a good grounding in reading the game and thus having a great positional awareness.
In the final third, he is always looking to play forward, rather than sideways. If you have that mentality then you can see and play natch-changing passes through a defence. Again it's all about your mentality, if you are a safe player then you simply don't see all the potential opportunities.
Passing sideways is a safe option, safe doesn't get you anywhere which is why Pochettino likes his players to take risks. Taking risks is all about taking them in the right areas at the right time. The rewards can be huge, the consequences devastating.
Ndombélé doesn't shirk responsibility, he takes it upon himself to use his skill and his ability to get out of difficult situations and create something.
Victor Wanyama, for instance, is a destroyer, he'll win the ball and give it to someone else to create. That's fine to get to a certain level, but if you want to be consistently winning trophies, you need more from that position, you need a ball winner, but you need a creator as well.
That allows you greater flexibility in your shape and poses a far greater threat to the opposition. One pass can win a game, but if you lack the bottle to play the pass you consign your team to being nearly men.
Passes that don't come off can make you look bad in the eyes of the viewer, but a player who doesn't try will always be limited. Players prepared to take risks are players managers want, but risks in the right situation, the Chiriches chip over a lone attacker wasn't the right situation. It didn't achieve anything, it didn't break through a line, it didn't achieve anything.
Thus he was an accident waiting to happen because he lacked the ability to know when to take a risk. He looked a better right-back than he did a centre-back.
In defensive situations his reading of the game allows him to be in the right position to cut off the passing lanes making creation through the centre difficult for teams, pushing them to attack the wide areas.
He has a high work rate, his interception stats stand up, he has the mentality to keep trying if things aren't going well, for instance, a few failed passes won't stop him trying, he won't go into his shell.
Ndombélé can turn defence into attack quickly, he is Mousa Dembélé with added ability in the final third, both creatively and a developing ability to score goals.
Importantly he can dribble under pressure which is aided by upper body strength, speed and balance.
Having played in several positions gives him a good grounding in reading the game and thus having a great positional awareness.
In the final third, he is always looking to play forward, rather than sideways. If you have that mentality then you can see and play natch-changing passes through a defence. Again it's all about your mentality, if you are a safe player then you simply don't see all the potential opportunities.
Passing sideways is a safe option, safe doesn't get you anywhere which is why Pochettino likes his players to take risks. Taking risks is all about taking them in the right areas at the right time. The rewards can be huge, the consequences devastating.
Ndombélé doesn't shirk responsibility, he takes it upon himself to use his skill and his ability to get out of difficult situations and create something.
Victor Wanyama, for instance, is a destroyer, he'll win the ball and give it to someone else to create. That's fine to get to a certain level, but if you want to be consistently winning trophies, you need more from that position, you need a ball winner, but you need a creator as well.
That allows you greater flexibility in your shape and poses a far greater threat to the opposition. One pass can win a game, but if you lack the bottle to play the pass you consign your team to being nearly men.
Passes that don't come off can make you look bad in the eyes of the viewer, but a player who doesn't try will always be limited. Players prepared to take risks are players managers want, but risks in the right situation, the Chiriches chip over a lone attacker wasn't the right situation. It didn't achieve anything, it didn't break through a line, it didn't achieve anything.
Thus he was an accident waiting to happen because he lacked the ability to know when to take a risk. He looked a better right-back than he did a centre-back.
In defensive situations his reading of the game allows him to be in the right position to cut off the passing lanes making creation through the centre difficult for teams, pushing them to attack the wide areas.
He has a high work rate, his interception stats stand up, he has the mentality to keep trying if things aren't going well, for instance, a few failed passes won't stop him trying, he won't go into his shell.
Ndombélé can turn defence into attack quickly, he is Mousa Dembélé with added ability in the final third, both creatively and a developing ability to score goals.
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