I know it's in our nature to be negative, and far be it from me to shit on one of the best players on our team, but it's something that a few of us have been saying for quite sometime. Gio's a hell of a playmaker with great vision but that vision is not being matched by anyone else on the team. Simply put.. he's able to read a game and play balls into space where his teammates should be, but aren't. I don't know if this is the reason he takes so many shots, or if he's opted to go the Dero route (ie: I don't trust the people around me to score so i'll do it myself).. but it's kind've worrying when you look at the numbers.
http://www.americansocceranalysis.co...hoots-too-much
Last match thread I used Altidore, how his presence up top normally draws defenders into opening up space, as an example of what would benefit our attack and the more I watch the more I stand by the claim. I'll use the clip of Endoh's goal (as it's already sectioned off in the article) to illustrate my point. You've got two defenders in front of Gio, one whose playing him and one whose positioned himself to block a shot. Unless anyone wants to make the argument that the defender put himself in a position to intercept a ball over the top while leaving loads of space behind him for two charging attackers (one of which is unmarked), it's pretty easy to see that the pressure on Seba opened up Endoh's run.
What's everyone else think? Does Gio shoot too much?
Do we trust anyone else to put them in the net?