Lukas Podolski

[Heui]

[s-cobar]

About TS I´m with you - I just post it cause it was in the discussion.

About SP. I can follow your explantions - and I really like the way you`ve write it down, but if you take a look to the ladder - there is Almeida on 91 - Podolski is definitely close to him. Almeida shoot from the 20m distance sometimes, that`s righ, and probabaly Almeida should eb higher than podolski, but on the other hand Petric and MArtins are on 90, and there Podolski is harder in his shot than both of them. So in my eyes Podolski is in SP closer to Almeida than to Martins and Petric.

[monKevski]

I think Petric can come down by two points, he showed his strenght of shots too rare as he deserves a value of 90 in Shot Power. About Martins I am not sure, I have to see more about him to judge this

Almeida is just amazing in Shot Power, actually I would give him some more points, he is definitely stronger than Podolski. I just can remember to some free kicks from 30 meters where shot the ball like a line under the crossbar with a speed of more over 120 km/h which is in the area of Hitz the hammer staying at 94 in Shot Power.

[s-cobar]

If we raise Almeida we`ve to raise Naldo too.

If we decrease Petric to 88. Podolski could be on 89 /90 - would fit - if you don´t wanna give him an orange value it would be 89. I could live with that but prefer a 90.

[monKevski]

I have nothing against of Naldo's SP if we raise Almeida's one, both are nearly on the same level in terms of Shot Power.

[s-cobar]

In my eyes

93 Naldo; 92 Almeida; 91 -; 90 Podolski, martins, 89 / 88 Petric.

[Shubitidze]

I don't see the SP of Naldo higher than the one of Almeida, would set beoth on 93, Almeida maybe even 94. Despite that I agree with your ranking, s-cobar.

[s-cobar]

Afte rthe explantion by Kev we`ve to realize that Naldo kicks hard shots from 25 or 30m - I`m not sure about Almeida if he`s on the same level. So that`s the reason why I`d give Naldo one point more than Almeida

[PMC]

I'd be cautious here... with a high SP he'd become automatically alot more dangerous since SP increases his succession rate. I think he prefers power over precision and speculates that the shots are too fast to parry when they get on target.

[ballack13]

Yes but his Koln is also a poor team.

You can't expect him to pour in goals playing with relatively poor players.

With Germany he is playing with much better players and has more quality chances.

that's a pretty bad argument. you suggest 84 SA for someone who scored 2 goals in 27 games last season and basicly missed 5 big chances vs Serbia alone

Perhaps i went a bit overboard with the 84 suggestion but I do think he is better than 80 for SA.

Also you can't really hold one game against him. I mean how often does Lukas miss a penalty and he missed one against Serbia. He just had an off day.

[Farfan17]

in the nationalteam he is very good, he scored goals, and in köln he is the opposite, i think SA 81!

[PMC]

Yes but his Koln is also a poor team.

You can't expect him to pour in goals playing with relatively poor players.

With Germany he is playing with much better players and has more quality chances.

that's a pretty bad argument. you suggest 84 SA for someone who scored 2 goals in 27 games last season and basicly missed 5 big chances vs Serbia alone

Perhaps i went a bit overboard with the 84 suggestion but I do think he is better than 80 for SA.

Also you can't really hold one game against him. I mean how often does Lukas miss a penalty and he missed one against Serbia. He just had an off day.

one game? Shall I repeat? 2 goals in 27 games

And you need to consider that Poldi is Köln's go to guy in attack so the excuse of Köln being a rather small team in the BuLi doesn't count imo

[ballack13]

2 in 27 is poor, no doubt but I do think the quality of his teamates has a great deal to do with this.
Besides Lukas proves himself on the biggest stage consistently.

Right now he is sitting at 80 alongside Martins with Farfan above him. I don't think this is fair. Lukas is clearly a better finisher than both these guys.

[PMC]

2 in 27 is poor, no doubt but I do think the quality of his teamates has a great deal to do with this.
Besides Lukas proves himself on the biggest stage consistently.

Right now he is sitting at 80 alongside Martins with Farfan above him. I don't think this is fair. Lukas is clearly a better finisher than both these guys.

the season before he scored 6 goals in 26 games and 07/08 its 5 goals in 25 games.

To blame his teammates for his problems is wrong imo. Köln is no amateur side and the other players delivered. Poldi has a high SP anyhow so he'll still be a big threat with SA 80.

[kunmariano]

He deserves to have 91 power ... ! strong that hits the ball!
87 may also have stamina, Dribble Accuracy 84 , Short Pass Accuracy 77, Technical 86

[Apos]

Shot Accuracy: 80
Shot Power: 89
i disagree
sa is overrated

i `d say
Shot Accuracy: 75 - 79
Shot Power: 88 - 91

also i am very positiv to see this
Weak Foot Accuracy: 2
Weak Foot Frequency: 1

[tomaster]

Yes his stamina is impressive.

[david hiranand]

Stamina : 87
SPA : 76
S power : 89

[tomaster]

SP? I rather say it needs to go up not down, but I surely agree on stamina.

[Abyss]

You're serious with Shot Power 94?

Of course. He has a thunderous shot too him! Did you see in the WC how he nearly probably broke Schwarzers hand with a venomous shot which even such a great keeper like him couldn't keep out because of such power of it.

[Luisao82]

Weak Foot Accuracy: 2
Weak Foot Frequency: 1


is that ok?