Honey Honey Posted July 29, 2017 Posted July 29, 2017 Quote ‘I don’t want to be pretentious, but I scored 34 goals for Juventus in the 1995-96 season and then 31 the next season with Middlesbrough. Nowadays, I’d score 60 goals a season, 50 for sure. ‘Once upon a time, it was difficult to score a goal. Now it’s easy. The great defenders are finished. There are no more Nestas, Maldinis or Stams. In every game you have five or six chances. It used to be one or two, maximum three.’ ‘This is sure. Not just me but Gianfranco Zola, Eric Cantona, Teddy Sheringham, we’d all score more these days,' he says. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4739740/Fabrizio-Ravanelli-d-score-60-goals-season-nowadays.html Is he right?
Devil-Dick Willie Posted July 29, 2017 Posted July 29, 2017 Defenders are shite these days, but not sure he'd score 50+
Administrator Stan Posted July 29, 2017 Administrator Posted July 29, 2017 I agree there's no 'great' defenders like Nesta/Maldini/Stam etc. The hardmen of football. Most defenders can play with the ball now as opposed to using their head. They're a bit more fancy as opposed to rugged and steely. He wouldn't score 50+ though. No way. EDIT: regards to the great defenders - in relation to my first sentence I'll amend that to say they're a dying breed. Chiellini is probably one of the last of those ilk. Vidic was as well but not sure if he's even still playing.
Toinho Posted July 29, 2017 Posted July 29, 2017 He's spot on about the defenders, but as Stan touched on, it's a different style now. Would he score 50/60? Probably not but then again he did get 31 for an average Boro side.
SirBalon Posted July 29, 2017 Posted July 29, 2017 First of all, systems of play are different now. Secondly, because systems are different, defenders have to be different... Defenders actually have to know how to play football because otherwise they get raped.
Inverted Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 There aren't as many great individual defenders, but teams are far more organised.
SirBalon Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 I think a great individual defender these days has more to his game than tree trunk defenders of the past that didn't know what to do with the ball at their feet. These days defenders have to be footballers.
robosys Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 Messi, Ronaldo and Zlatan kept hitting double figures, he's right, defending ain't what it used to be
SirBalon Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 1 hour ago, robosys said: Messi, Ronaldo and Zlatan kept hitting double figures, he's right, defending ain't what it used to be Maradona went past 10 players in Mexico WC86. There weren't too many doing that then if any at that level. Was also raping hardline Italian defenders in one of Italy's most defensive eras. Di Stéfano and Puskas scored a hat-trick each in the 1960 European Cup Final (Champions League for those born after football became professional ) Hugo Sánchez was scoring double figures for Real Madrid when defenders were at their most tree trunkish. Gunnar Nordhal's record of 35 goals in one Serie A season for Milan stood for 66 years until Higuaín broke it last season for Napoli. Dixie Dean for Everton scored 60 goals in 1928 when defenders were allowed to stab people on the pitch. I could actually go on with this but I've suddenly got bored. Special players do special things in any era. Ravanelli was just average and he's bitter.
Dave Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 Defenders are a lot quicker in modern football than Steve Vickers, Dean Gordon etc. were.
robosys Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 1 hour ago, SirBalon said: Maradona went past 10 players in Mexico WC86. There weren't too many doing that then if any at that level. Was also raping hardline Italian defenders in one of Italy's most defensive eras. Di Stéfano and Puskas scored a hat-trick each in the 1960 European Cup Final (Champions League for those born after football became professional ) Hugo Sánchez was scoring double figures for Real Madrid when defenders were at their most tree trunkish. Gunnar Nordhal's record of 35 goals in one Serie A season for Milan stood for 66 years until Higuaín broke it last season for Napoli. Dixie Dean for Everton scored 60 goals in 1928 when defenders were allowed to stab people on the pitch. I could actually go on with this but I've suddenly got bored. Special players do special things in any era. Ravanelli was just average and he's bitter. I was gonna say those are anomalies but you already pointed that out, no matter how solid an era is, there's bound to be anomalies but right now, defending sucks more.
SirBalon Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 15 minutes ago, robosys said: I was gonna say those are anomalies but you already pointed that out, no matter how solid an era is, there's bound to be anomalies but right now, defending sucks more. There are anomalies... Those anomalies are called "great players" and they do great things.
Azeem Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 @SirBalon Offside rule was quite different in some of the eras especially the 20s wasn't it?
SirBalon Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 1 minute ago, Azeem98 said: @SirBalon Offside rule was quite different in some of the eras especially the 20s wasn't it? Yeah... It didn't exist a long time ago as also bookings didn't exist, hence defenders being able to cripple anyone attacking their goal.
Cicero Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 15 hours ago, SirBalon said: I think a great individual defender these days has more to his game than tree trunk defenders of the past that didn't know what to do with the ball at their feet. These days defenders have to be footballers. This. The game is continuously evolving. If you don't have defenders who are just as good on the ball as they are at defending, you are going backwards.
robosys Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 20 minutes ago, Azeem98 said: @SirBalon Offside rule was quite different in some of the eras especially the 20s wasn't it? Imagine scrapping the offside rule now, damn... Barcelona and Madrid should score nothing less than 5 goals per match!
Azeem Posted August 1, 2017 Posted August 1, 2017 20 minutes ago, SirBalon said: Yeah... It didn't exist a long time ago as also bookings didn't exist, hence defenders being able to cripple anyone attacking their goal. I read that in the late 20s offside rule was changed this lead to an increased amount of goals scored
Vegan Kel Posted December 31, 2018 Posted December 31, 2018 He's right but the main reason is that the game is virtually a non-contact sport these days. I'd love to see Messi and Ronaldo try and score 20 goals in 1980s/1990s Serie A, let alone 50
Eco Posted December 31, 2018 Posted December 31, 2018 1 minute ago, Salford Kel said: He's right but the main reason is that the game is virtually a non-contact sport these days. I'd love to see Messi and Ronaldo try and score 20 goals in 1980s/1990s Serie A, let alone 50 Yep - Ronaldo going up against Materazzi in his prime, followed by a match against Nesta, Stam, Maldini, would have forced CR to take a few weeks off to recover from 3-4 different injuries.
Administrator Stan Posted December 31, 2018 Administrator Posted December 31, 2018 8 minutes ago, Eco said: Yep - Ronaldo going up against Materazzi in his prime, followed by a match against Nesta, Stam, Maldini, would have forced CR to take a few weeks off to recover from 3-4 different injuries. The Brazilian Ronaldo could do it
Smiley Culture Posted December 31, 2018 Posted December 31, 2018 Personally think it’s bollocks to suggest that certain footballers from the 90’s weren’t cultured enough to have anything else in their lockers but tackling or kicking an opponent and that certain current players wouldn’t be able to cut it because of alleged inefficiencies within their game.
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted December 31, 2018 Subscriber Posted December 31, 2018 On 29/07/2017 at 12:19, Stan said: Vidic was as well but not sure if he's even still playing. Aye, retired but he was one of the best and a dying breed nowadays. Vidić joined Serie A club Internazionale on a free transfer. Vidić mainly featured as a rotational player for two seasons, eventually agreeing to an early termination of his contract on January 18, 2016, as a result of inactivity due to a hernia injury. Vidić then announced his retirement just under two weeks later, on January 29. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemanja_Vidić Gone are the days of really hard men like Liverpool's Tommy Smith, Dave McKay, Jimmy Case etc but years ago you could chop a player down like 'Chopper' Harris would and the ref would signal play on or slam into a goalkeeper who had the ball in his hands and knock him into the back of the net and a goal was given, not like that anymore, touch a player with your finger and he will swan dive and roll around in agony as if hit by a bus and the ref will either send the other player off or hand out a yellow card.
Carnivore Chris Posted December 31, 2018 Posted December 31, 2018 On 01/08/2017 at 16:04, robosys said: Imagine scrapping the offside rule now, damn... Barcelona and Madrid should score nothing less than 5 goals per match! The 2 would also ship in a lot more goals too due to the horrendous defences
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