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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 645222" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>I agree with <strong>Tony </strong>about Vunipola. Not that he's a one-hit wonder or whatever, just yesterday's match specifically: it really doesn't matter how many meters he ran, and although the 8 defenders stat beaten is a very impressive number, relying on stats here is like playing fantasy sports. </p><p>You can't watch a match and see everything as it happened and then retreat to your stats sheet and pull out some handsome numbers. Vunipola wasn't a factor and was defended mightily by Toulon, period. He never looked intelligent or really dangerous as he did the same thing, over and over and over again, and the result was the same thing over and over and over again: he lost the ball. Either from his own grip, or on the ground as Toulon's defense put him down, and put the hands on the ball. Some times he was isolated, sometimes Toulon *made it* so he'd be isolated. It was almost too easy at a point, I remember relishing the idea of seeing the ball in his hands because the exact same thing would happen again.</p><p></p><p>He didn't play/wasn't played like during the last France England game: there, he was like a moving platform that served as a decoy, where he would command attention from 2 or 3 defenders before offloading it softly to Brown on that first try, or at midfield on the second with Burrell merely needing to run a straight line, and straight under the post uncontested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 645222, member: 57076"] I agree with [B]Tony [/B]about Vunipola. Not that he's a one-hit wonder or whatever, just yesterday's match specifically: it really doesn't matter how many meters he ran, and although the 8 defenders stat beaten is a very impressive number, relying on stats here is like playing fantasy sports. You can't watch a match and see everything as it happened and then retreat to your stats sheet and pull out some handsome numbers. Vunipola wasn't a factor and was defended mightily by Toulon, period. He never looked intelligent or really dangerous as he did the same thing, over and over and over again, and the result was the same thing over and over and over again: he lost the ball. Either from his own grip, or on the ground as Toulon's defense put him down, and put the hands on the ball. Some times he was isolated, sometimes Toulon *made it* so he'd be isolated. It was almost too easy at a point, I remember relishing the idea of seeing the ball in his hands because the exact same thing would happen again. He didn't play/wasn't played like during the last France England game: there, he was like a moving platform that served as a decoy, where he would command attention from 2 or 3 defenders before offloading it softly to Brown on that first try, or at midfield on the second with Burrell merely needing to run a straight line, and straight under the post uncontested. [/QUOTE]
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