He may be one of our best options still, especially with the amount of other key guys in concerning form, but I want to begin the process of phasing him out. He will not play forever. Moreover, he picks up injuries all the time now. I can't see him finishing out these qualifiers healthy and in form. I'd rather work in Duvan, Borre, Suarez, and even Morelos...
For me he is still valuable as a locker room guy and penalty taker. And right now other than Duvan and Jhon Cordoba I would not put anyone ahead of him at #9. But I would agree with the phasing him out. I think the Copa America should be his last tournament. It would be nice to see his career out with a Trophy at home. (Fairy tale ending.)
def good enough to be a sub but if we play 4-3-3 like the coach wants he just doesn’t fit into that system unless it goes to a 4-3-1-2 but the new coach doesn’t like play makers and all of ours are injured anyone who thinks he isn’t still in our top 5 striker is a straight up hater he would score 50 in Scotland. If you want to drop him for Morelos who shouldn’t be called. borre, Cucho are very different types of players. Both you can call because of potential. Borre is more of a proven player you have Cordoba who is tearing it up. More of a Duvan player. so in Falcao a position you have Duvan, Cordoba then a Falcao. Cordoba has 0 games/goals in yellow. That are the 3 for the middle in a attacking 3. Borre can be there as well. Now on the left you can have Borre, Muriel, Luis Diaz. Think roger being completely erased from his club fks his chances here. On the right - Muriel, James or Villa. Again Borre or Cucho (has what 1-2 goals this season) think can play the Roger role if asked. really comes down to experience and do you want someone who can finish games.
Your hate campaign against Morelos makes no sense. Morelos has almost reached Falcao's record of goals in Europa league. Europa league is not a Scottish league.
his chances in yellow have been bad. just don’t think he deserves it more than Borre. Also he seems like a peace of shit like Teo. Tho this new douche isn’t being called for by 100ks who live in the city where the NT plays
LOL yeah Falcao can definitely still score goals when given the chance, problem is he can't do anything else and the team suffers, while the other guys can still score a lot of those goals and offer so much more. Borre is very good and deserves a chance, but I don't think he fits naturally anywhere in a front 3 like we are laying, can't really play wide and isn't a 9 that can play alone better then Duvan/Morelos/Cordoba who are experts at it and no reason to really force a player there who isn't a great fit. If we tried a 4-4-2 Borre would be a great fit, and I think there's an argument to trying it out. Morelos is a lot better then Falcao, I think Duvan and Morelos are the two who are first up to play as a #9 and Cordoba should be called in an given a chance soon. I'm torn on Falcao, he's great if we need a goal but not sure we need to keep a spot for him over other people who are more versatile and on the up tick in their career.
It is difficult. Morelos is better than Falcao at some things simply because he is younger and his body is not as damaged. Falcao does bring things that Morelos does not have yet though. He has the intangibles like leadership and game time experience in tough , grueling qualifiers/ Copa America matches. I also trust him a lot more taking penalties than any player in our player pool still. From what I have seen of Morelos he cannot be counted upon for spot kicks. (Not yet anyway.). And the biggest differentiation is that he usually keeps his cool and is calm.while Morelos simply has an attitude problem and is not disciplined enough. We had a conversation like this in the other thread so it should be no sruprise to you that I am with Crzd in saying I do not think Morelos should be on the March roster. However, by the summer things could change for me if Morelos cleans up his act and starts getting hot again in the goal tally.
I can understand if someone doesn't want Morelos to start right now. But the argument that his performances in yellow have been bad and therefore Morelos sucks just drives me f.uckin insane. It took 5 freakin years for Falcao to start scoring in the NT! His first year he scored two goals in eight matches. Second year 5 matches and 1 goal. Third year: 9 matches 2 goals, 4th year 4 matches 1 goal. Now he is the best striker Colombia has ever had.
One argument for bringing Falcao against Chile and Venezuela is that the team lacks leadership. Duvan is the obvious starter, but the other strikers available are living a bad moment. I think Queiroz will call up Falcao.
Falcao in his first couple years was a struggle - I remember him at one point falling down any time he was near the ball around the 18. And he wasn’t flopping, but it was more out of clumsiness. I don’t know if there is room for both Morelos and Borre especially given the recent string of injuries to others. I don’t mind Morelos but he won’t be having chances like he did the past two friendlies where nobody was available.
I'm not saying Morelos should play in the next matches. What I'm saying is he is the most promising young striker and he should be part of the NT when it's possible. Some minutes here and there. It could take years for him to shine in yellow, who knows, but to rule him out forever based on a few of matches where the whole team sucked is insanity. I feel like most people haven't seen him play for Rangers and judge him only based on his matches for Colombia. Nobody knows how he develops and can he translate his club performances to NT, but right now he is the best bet for the future. We need new strikers very soon.
If Morelos is younger and does things better and his body is not as damaged it's still great for him, if Falcao was younger he'd be a guaranteed starter because he was one of the best in the world, but he's not anymore and we can't hold onto that. Morelos up to this point if we compare him to Falcao's peak he has better hold up play and physicality to fight off defenders, turn defenders and run at them 1v1. Even at Falcao's peak it was never his game, he's never been a big guy and Morelos is much more compact and stronger, some of that is just down to their builds. Falcao absolutely has the intangibles and of course he's the best penalty taker we could hope for, but you absolutely cannot fit a player in simply because of penalties, the best penalty taker on the team compared to say Falcao is what 10-15% difference fo something that happens what once every 3-4 games? There are so many chances or possessions we keep that lead to goals that we don't get with Falcao, his penalty ability simply for a 15% increase in conversion isn't even close to enough to keep him in the mix. His leadership abilities keeps him in the mix, and we can't really replicate that and I'd love to have him in the squad, but it would have to be with the idea of playing him if needed and I'd still want at least 2 #9's as options ahead of him because we simply lose so much with his lack of hold up play and pace to run behind.
Morelos really needs to work on his discipline and get his head straight but he's absolutely a huge talent who should be with the squad and offers a team a lot. Agree he doesn't have to start, but his talent can't be denied and bringing him in and having him as a little brother type around our players I'd think would help him, its one thing ********ing up at Rangers where he may feel isolated vs doing it in a squad of Colombians who he relates to and has to answer to the entire Colombian public if he's an idiot. I've watched a lot of Morelos toughest games in the Europa League and he has constantly been head and shoulders the best player on the field and hugely involved with play the whole game, that's difficult to do for a player and at times I'm baffled how he has the energy to be on the ball that much fighting off danders and still making mad man runs into the box and finishing.
Morelos isn’t ready with who else we have and the formation the coach plays. maybe in the future. And he is a shit for brains player but if we bring him and he is suppose to be the #9 in the middle. You have to put him behind Duvan, Falcao and Cordoba and even Borre. I mean I wish the coach would bring 30 guys but he doesn’t. He brings 23. Of which I think some of these guys need to play multiple spots in a pinch.
Based on? Falcao isn't a realistic solo 9 anymore and has a lot of games of us being shit with him playing there and its only going to get worse. Borre isn't great as a solo 9, he could grow into that but until he does he's not a better option then Duvan/Morelos/Cordoba. Cordoba has an argument to over take Morelos for the back up 9, its definitely his position and he does it well and is playing really well. Falcao and Borre have arguments to be involved, and Borre is growing as a player but he's still not a solo 9 and there's no reason to put him that position to not succeed. I'm fairly sure CQ isn't going to try and hamstring a 9 that doesn't fit the position which is great, Morelos is the future for us just like Duvan was a few years ago and has grown into one of the best 9's in the world and Morelos is someone who you can put in as a replacement and play essentially the same system and have someone who can do a lot of the same things, can drop in to link up play and also hold the ball up/while making runs into the box.
Falcao and Borre......could play as solo 9...........not all 9´s just have to be phisics to played in that spot.......actually the footbal iq of both for me is more useful than players that are only mussles........ That thought that only morelos, zapata and cordoba type players....remeber me pinto philosophy of put edixon and rodallega over falcao............ Falcao, Borre, Zapata and Cordoba have been better these months than morelos.
I mentioned the penalties only because they are in the front of my mind. For 2 reasons. 1) Last time we played Venezuela at home we missed what seemed like so many penalties without Falcao. 2) We have been eliminated from three of the last four Major tournaments due to spot kicks. When we play in the Copa America it would be more of the factor I would have him on the roster. That plus it would be nice for him to go out with a chance to win silverware at home.