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@@danallery8207 this will not be our usual set up it’s only because it is a Serie A video where footage is copyrighted. For normal videos we will return to our usual format
Good analysis. I like the way you mentioned "Cavani" for workrate comparison. Osimhen is an excellent srriker that will explode if he moves to a bigger team.
Ngl I found the analysis quite strange! The numbers were shown clearly whilst saying it's Cavani esque (4:26) - it clearly shows his pressing numbers are even worse than Kane in 23/24, not only in terms of defensive actions, but also significantly worse duel success rate. Even in 23/24 he had comparable numbers to Kane. For context, Kane is widely known as one of the worst defensive strikers in Europe. So, numbers show it couldn't be further from the truth!
@@tombrady5587 hence why the eye test is important, this season was a massive drop off for the entire Napoli team, but last season, watching their game, Osimhen was a menace defensively. Might even be a tactical issue where 23/24’s managers, like Mazzarri preference more of a mid lock/ low block defence , than the offensive aggressive possession based football Spalletti used to have.
@@EdwardElfigo Yup, exactly. It's why eye test is important. It was obvious from the eye that Osimhen has technical deficiencies. It was also clear from stats that in his career Osimhen has only had 1 elite level goal scoring season. He has elite physical attributes, but clearly has limitations as well. Hence why I mentioned why he'll look a lot worse if not in the right system.
@@tombrady5587 those are clear, but technically every Napoli season he had was very good goal scoring wise, which somewhat highlights what is probably his biggest issue, aka his fitness. He missed large chunks of every single he had in Naples bar the title winning one, and he’s going to be missing in action every other winter due to AFCON too. I’m an avid Serie A watcher, and always thought his market valuation was grossly overrated due to both technical and fitness deficiencies, he’s still a great scorer though who has time to improve.
@@EdwardElfigo Yup, his goals to game ratio has always been good, but he's had a lot of injuries. And yes, his market value is grossly overvalued. I said it a year before he signed that extension that his best bet to get out of Napoli is to run down his contract to 1 year. Whoever his agents are did a poor job thinking a 130m release clause was going to be triggered. Even Chelsea who have overpaid massively over the years have realised it's not worth it. In fact, when Napoli paid 80m all those years ago, Italian media thought it was sort of money laundering going as it was that much higher than it should have been. Talented player, with some great attributes and some poor. Had 1 elite season, and has ranged from average to good in seasons surrounding.
I’d like to see you do a video series where you build a team (or possible teams with different tactics like counter attacking, possession based, or underrated players team etc) and explain every player choice like you do in these videos? 😅 and maybe include some examples how the teams could play and why (this could include a manager too). Good work btw! 👍
The good thing about Osimhen is that he always improves. He wasn't so swift when he played in the U17s (which he absolutely smashed, breaking the record for highest amount of goals scored), but he worked on it. If you watch him you can see that his ball control also improves with each season. A proper striker does not need to look pretty on the ball, he just needs be able to run with the ball and to score.
@@oussama2040 he was easily 2nd highest goal scorer in Seria A last season despite being out for afcon(1 month) and injuries and this in a toxic environment where everyone from club, fans to teammates was gaslighting him, disrespectful and ridiculing his efforts because he can't dribble like messi
Good one Pythag! Osimhen's Afcon performances were worrying for me. Maybe I'm too deep in the Nico Jackson hive to fully appreciate Osimhen. I wanted Samu Omorodion as I thought he could be a more refined Osimhen in 2 seasons, but others don't agree lol.
@@PythagorasinBootsYou know you never did do a video for Jackson. You said didn't rate him or something like that when Chelsea signed him. Any chance of doing one one of these days?
The last time you also made a video before Chelsea signed a big player 👀👀👀🔥 is this a secret here we go ... Pythagoras cooking up some Fabrizio snacks here
I wish he went to la liga to develop on the ball. Jackson in less than 2yrs and you can see how his closs control and link up play is so polised although being so young.
Gosh i need Osimhen at arsenal so bad, get him and the prem is theirs, could easily be their haaland with way more tools in his arsenal...Watched him live and he's the real deal.
Wasn’t excited about this Chelsea transfer window at all. But if we get Neto, Felix and Osimhen all in the same transfer window, I’d be ecstatic and probably won’t complain as much about the ownership.
I wish Jackson have the same ball striking ability and aerial threat as Osimhen. I hope Chelsea will end up signing him because it'll give us a striker profile that we haven't had in ages. We need a striker who's good with his back to goal and to be able to link-up with the wingers. Chelsea need a striker who can get at the end of crosses and have an elite movement in the box which we severely lack. I see Osimhen as one of the best traditional strikers which is becoming increasingly rare in modern football now.
That fee is considering the player he could become rather than the one he is. He is a player with very high ceiling and since there has been at least 6 strikers who moved for 80m+ in the last 3 windows, Napoli will not want to miss out.
Probably the strangest commentary I've seen from Pythagoras! The stats consistently show a massive weakness, only for Pythagoras to call Osimhen brilliant at it haha! I think this may be a case of making a conclusion before looking at the stats. That or making a conclusion based on 22/23, as 23/24 very clearly paints a different story.
Great content as always but a quick question for ya. When you're showing the stats are they just the previous seasons stats or is it like a 3 year rolling average or something?
What I want to know is how much he can translate his game from Serie A to the Prem. It is constant issue when looking at stats that the level of physicality in those two leagues is so different. The obvious example is Lukaku. He's strong enough to be a menace in Serie A but he struggles so much to replicate this consistently in the Prem. In terms of squad fit, there is something to be said for Osimhen at Chelsea, in that Maresca's system produces chances to be converted by the striker and the two forward midfielders, so having a stronger finisher than Jackson would not be a bad thing. And Chelsea absolutely does have players that can hit passes in behind.
@@samiroanya4085 Don't think that's entirely true. Lukaku isn't old enough to have grown weaker or slower, certainly wasn't when he had his one season back with us. It feels to me as if he's a good flat track bully but really struggles when counters are denied him and he can't just fling defenders out of the way. And he struggles with high tempo games. He's a big guy, he needs to pace himself to last for 90 minutes. Constantly being on the move, either to press or to open up a passing lane or to draw away defenders... That's not really him. It seems to me that while he's absolutely a quality striker in Serie A, he's also just not quite fit for purpose in the Prem, be it for Chelsea or for Man Utd. Which opens the door for the question: How do we know that other physical Serie A players won't have the same issue?
@@Monochromatic_Spider lukakus last stint at inter when he came back from Chelsea wasn't good... He got benched for 40 year old dzeko in the UCL final... Also other strikers who moved from epl and went to serie a usually play at the same or even worse level (Tammy Abraham being a great example, despite English fans swearing he was destroying the league when he did not have more serie a goals than he ever had epl goals). if there's a league which historically has strikers suffer from physicality in other leagues it's bundesliga. Luka Jovic being a prime example but there's actually plenty more... It seems like serie a and the whole lukaku thing has ppl rewriting history like lukaku isn't on the all time epl leading goal scorer list.
@@Monochromatic_Spider Lukaku's problem seemed to be his fitness and lack of energy. Osimhen can definitely be great even in high intensity games he has a lot more energy than lukaku
no offense buy why isnt Haaland, Lewandowski, Vhahovic on the comparrison sectiom, tf is Havertz and Sesko doing there ? i feel like this makes him look better than he is when being compared so strikers that arent even real no9's liek Jackson and Havertz. We might as well compare him to Nkunku, Alvarez and Nunez
I think your videos would come off better if the primary footage is football clips. It just looked more professional and easier to digest. Btw theirs nothing wrong with you narrating on camera it’s just easier to understand your analysis when theirs football example onscreen.
I didn't think Chelsea was a good fit for Osimhen. Their front office is similar to Napoli's. It lacks stability. They chew world class forwards up and spit them out in their endless managerial merry go round. Galatasaray seems anticlimactic for such a talent. But I hope he is able to find some joy playing again in Turkey.
Why do you rate players in skillets that are completely irrelevant in their position? Long passing? Really? Makes me doubt your overall rating. Could you really not find other traits and skills that would be of more relevance?
@@aesopsock7447 the skill sets cover all the facets of football so it makes it easier for the viewer to realise what position the player in question is suited to playing. Weirdly Osimhen long passing actually forms quite an important part of his game in terms of enabling the momentum of the attack to continue.
Man it's not a thing against Ronaldo, both Messi and Ronaldo both as of now just sit back and don't press, they barely hold passing lanes anyone can see that. When you do analysis of players you gotta be objective that many parts of the game of some described world best aren't top notch.
The difference between both season can be explained away with different factors that affected not only him but the whole team. 22-23 allowed Napoli players to be overrated and last season was a regression to the mean. AFCON has been very troublesome for him which is weird given the talent level of that Nigerian team, his spells at prior situations are good, certainly not impressive. So I'm with that rating of 72, although I would not consider him world class. I think you should be more stingy with titles like generational, intergenerational or greatest ever. A world class player should be arguably the best in his position today, a generational or even intergenerational talent should be one that is all time level but because of deficiencies(either individually or on a team level) would not be GOAT level, think Pedri or Pirlo and a GOAT level should be who can have an argument as the best ever in his field, regardless of what is around him. As for the value needed for each, that can be debated.
@@Dilllll26 Serie A is very strict with footage so it blocked our last Osimhen video. For leagues with less copyright issues we will use our normal full screen and plenty of clips style.
