Too many Goal less draws the past 2 days made me lose interest.Pirates,Chiefs and Sundowns were very disappointing.
Im qouting my fellow Kickoff forumite DazerII,He made very good points.
"Myth: Modise is burnt out
It seems like majority of people have fallen into the media chorus “Modise is burnt out, he needs to rest, blah blah blah” to divert the attention from strings of poor performances from this player. Note that I am not saying he is a BAD player but just stating my view based on my observation.
Compared to many European and South American players I think the excuse of fatigue should not even apply to most of our players. For example if you look at the involvement of players such as CR9/Messi/Drogba/Benzema/Aguerro/Kaka etc, Modise’s last year schedule will look like child’s play. a**uming the above players missed 8 league games in their clubs will mean they played 30 league games thus same # of games as Modise (a**uming he played every league game). These players also play in Champions League (league stage and knockouts), which our Modise doesn’t because our teams are pathetic in Africa. Unlike South Africa, the national teams of these players had to qualify for SA2010, which meant these players had to endure intense WC qualifiers compared to S.A friendly games with the likes of Canada, Australia, and others. On top of this, many of these teams end up reaching the finals in their domestic cups, which OP hardly achieves. Taking out occasional FIFA friendlies that they also participate in and their pre-season friendly tours one can still see the difference.
Looking at all this it’s amazing that one hardly ever hears the fans of Barca/Madrid/Chelski/Milan etc giving fatigue excuse for CR/Messi when they play isht. The fact of the matter is; Modise needs to get back to the basics if he is serious about taking his game to another level. Any efforts to defend him against critics will not get him anywhere closer to playing in credible European league.
I think Modise should ask himself some of these questions;
1)If I am an attacking midfielder what should be my goal tally in a season (target 5/10/12??)?
2)If I am a winger am I not supposed to be trying to create goals by providing quality crosses to my strikers? If players like Cale/Klaite/Nale are occasionally able to beat players and make decent crosses, why can’t I do the same?
3)Why most of the time my pa**es don’t reach their intended recipients? Is there perhaps something wrong with my “CURRENT” pa**ing technique??? Is this POSING technique adding value to my game?
4)Since I like to take shots, what is it that I am doing wrong to always shoot wayward or take weak shots that sometimes struggle to even reach the keeper? What is wrong with my current shooting technique?
5)I have been chosen as a dead ball specialist for my team, what am I doing to improve on this. What is my target conversion rate per season? (2/4/5)
6)Talent wise I believe I am or might be on the same level with many players in Europe (Pienaar/Arteta/Mikel/Carrick/Jenas/Muntari/Granero/Keita/Benayoun,etc, what is it that they are doing and I am not doing??
Finally:
Am I contempt with being South African star rather than global star, if Arshavin only became known at 27 why can’t I do the same? Btw I know players can suffer from having a dip in form but for Teko is getting way too long for my liking. I hope he won’t be like Kevin Phillips or Diego Tristan of South Africa"
