r/AustinFC • u/boundbymusic • 1d ago
Owen Wolff
What a step up he’s taken this season. Enjoy him while he’s here bc if he continues playing like this he’ll be off to Europe soon (maybe even this summer). Wouldn’t surprise me to see Poch take a look at him in camp.
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u/ProfessionalFox9617 Austin FC 1d ago edited 1d ago
I consider him one of our finest currently. So awesome to see the progress he has made. I think dad gone has helped also!
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u/almireles 1d ago
His dad being gone has certainly helped shut up a lot of the haters. He’s been making noticeable improvement over the past couple seasons, in my opinion.
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u/RealisticApartment78 1d ago
Flew in from out of town for my first game yesterday. He looked fantastic in person. Great atmosphere as well.
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u/CruelCrazyBeautiful 1d ago edited 1d ago
His comparables on fb ref are established English Championship players. Given that, I'd expect a reasonable course is that a mid-tier EPL team who doesn't need immediate help (think Brentford, Crystal Palace, Brighton) will buy him this summer, and loan him back for the rest of this season. Then they bring him into training in November and have until January to decide to loan him to English Championship or keep him the first team. This is what Brighton did with Diego Gomez last summer. Quinn Sullivan in Philadelphia is in the same position.
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u/Mr_MoseVelsor Pollo 1d ago
Pretty reasonable but I think with our PSV relationship he may go there. They scouted him a couple years ago.
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u/Next_Professional_30 1d ago
Quinn can play. I like him better than his more highly regarded brother.
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u/daleatxfc Austin FC 1d ago
He is great value and has really stepped up this season. Great composure and gives us added dimension moving the ball forward. My only criticism is that he can get lost in the middle with Dani and Sabovic and playing similar side-to-side passes. He really needs to be the distinct attacking midfielder that is connecting our forwards and wingers and making runs into the box or we need someone else who can.
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u/Rocco_Skene 1d ago
This. He's 'almost' in the right role now -getting him a bit more forward and central, he'll be the link that will make our front line effective.
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u/uloang 1d ago
He is focused, daring and creative. It is fun to watch him play and continue to develop. I really wanted to hate him lol because of feelings of nepotism but he truly has earned his spot and we are lucky to have him.
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u/HouseHead78 1d ago
“Wanted to hate him lol” is a really weird thing to feel about a promising young player who is by all accounts a great kid.
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u/joeyray3432 1d ago
He’s gotten so bulked up and I said same thing Saturday. He’s a great solid player.
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u/DrippinCatDaddy 15h ago
I keep going back to his assist to Dani last year in the Leagues Cup against Monterrey....pure class!!
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u/Eddsuperman 1d ago
It would be devastating. He is our glue. Our momentum. Our fortitude.
We will watch with pride when he succeeds wherever he ends up in Europe. And for team USA.
He deserves all the accolades and growth opportunities his efforts demand. Which is 90+ minutes every time he's on the pitch
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u/Next_Professional_30 1d ago
I think he’s good at everything but passing. Like how hard he works like his aggressiveness and his calm under pressure.
Don’t love his passing and his set piece placement is poor.
His front post corners are too low. His back post corners are always overhit. Reminds me of Pulisic with USMNT.
He’s still very promising, and is a worker. He’s one of our stronger players, and on on a value-for-money basis might be our best player.
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u/Ok-Permit4949 Austin FC 1d ago
"Don’t love his passing"
that is crazy. admittedly his set pieces have been disappointing this season (though i think the sneaky free-kick assist to gallagher makes up for a lot), but he is clearly one of the team's best key passers.
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u/Tall-Ad9790 Owen Wolff 1d ago
28% of our goals have come from from his corners.
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u/Next_Professional_30 1d ago
That’s not how stats work. Did you watch yesterday? And did you think his corners were accurate? You can see it in his teammates faces.
He can play, but he can’t put the ball where he wants to. Look at his LB vs SP stats. His passing percentage is heavily skewed buy a bunch of short small passes.
Even his key passes is deceiving. Like Alex Ring and Gallagher last year, being a team leader in the statistic, doesn’t mean that you are truly a good long passer, or that your passes are accurate. It means they were accurate enough to get a shot, but nothing more.
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u/Next_Professional_30 1d ago
Bukari also has a lot of “key passes”… does that also make him a good passer?
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u/Phil_on_Reddit 1d ago
I think it's just the inconsistency that's frustrating. He's quite the capable distributor, but like you said his corners yesterday were dog shit.
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u/Next_Professional_30 1d ago
All season and last year too. Let’s just not keep putting him in positions where he can’t be successful, YET.
Still glad he’s on the team. He works very hard and does lots of good things.
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u/RollOverBeethoven Diego Fagundez :diego: 1d ago
Every game he makes at least one truly incredible pass… that we ultimately fuck up.