Jozy talking about injury. Notes that he played injured from the semi-finals of the 2017 MLS up with torn ankle ligaments and bone chips. Jozy is a hard dude.
How do you explain why he jogs around with a lack of urgency and can't pressure the opposition for 90 minutes when healthy?
I don't explain a straw man that you made up. https://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/joz...league-soccer-greg-vanney-sebastian-giovinco/ One of the “other things” Altidore does is act as TFC’s first line of defence. He routinely harries and tries to close down opposing defenders when they try to bring the ball out from the back, giving his defence more time to reset after Toronto loses possession. His tireless efforts on the defensive end haven’t gone unnoticed by Vanney. “He does an incredible amount of unselfish work defensively. At times, we don’t necessarily look at forwards in that way, but he’s done a huge amount of work and contributed a ton in terms of our overall defensive [posture] from the forward position,” Vanney stated.
We may still Jozy. Bobby wouldn't score on a barn door, Novakovich has five goals in a league where there are defenders with seven, Gall scores in a league weaker than MLS, Sargent looked out of his depth, Haji makes one admire Wood, Amon got himself benched & Weah is a sub player in a weak league where his team is absolutely dominant.
What better way to start the game? Jozy being Jozy... pic.twitter.com/ebq43hZsNd— Joe (@joedratnol) October 23, 2017 Just see the second tweet for an example of Jozy's great hustle at T&T.
The continuing problem we have is that Jozy is a good forward for a fan base that is dreaming of a great one and often suffers from the fallacy of infinite choice.
He actually stops jogging altogether and makes no effort to win the ball back after his mistake in the biggest game of the cycle. This is emblematic of Jozy the player for the national team.
Jozy is not a good forward past a certain level. He can play MLS, Eredivisie, CONCACAF semis but at a higher level can no longer produce. This is absolutely true. The expectations put on young Jozy weren't fair and some folks attack him for not being what they wanted him to be.
I watched Match of the Day and saw the Burnley-Spurs match. There's Chris Woods. A big dude. Kiwi actually. I kept thinking what might have been of Jozy. He played for 2 crappy sides in the PL. But so have many other traditionally English-style center forwards and made bread and butter of winning balls and battling for a goal. Though, maybe Jozy should have gone to Ligue 1 or Serie A when he was contemplating leaving AZ. We all hoped for a Dempsey 2.0 in England. I guess we're still waiting.
The expectations placed on a 17 y/o Jozy were reasonable. Hell, Villarreal were high on him as well. It's a numbers game, though. I would liked to have seen Jozy play in a team tactically set up to maximize his strengths. Klinsmann, Arena, and his EPL coaches all wanted him to play as a back-to-goal center forward, which was totally not his game.
I think he is actually learned to be pretty good as a hold up man at TFC. That time in Sunderland wasn't for nothing.
Both him and Bradley (vs Colombia) , screwing up and then pretending it was somebody else fault with arm reaction This is the result of Complacency. When Garber 100% will always be there for you, you start to slip. But in general Jozy has been better than Bradley in this regard, so I still like Jozy. Bradley has been known to physically touch or verbally/electronically attack former USMNT players who criticized his auto-90 place in the team.
The thing is Jozy was never the strong man battling CF his body type would suggest him to be. He’s not strong in the air; we now have a CM in Weston Mckennie who does a much better job battling in that position.
https://www.torontofc.ca/players On a lighter note, there is no way that Jozy is really a buck 75. NO WAY. TFC's roster says Jordan Hamilton is 10 Lbs heavier. This is like Kevin Durant being listed at 6'9". Jozy Altidore 17 Forward - Livingston AGE: 29 HT: 6' 0" WT: 175