by Stranded »
12 Dec 2019 08:49
Snowflake Royal Jagermesiter1871 Ranted in the match thread but his love of cross field hollywood passes also massively irritates me. They are good and look great but sometimes (often) the best pass is the simple one. Invariably slows down play and become far too predictable.
Can't criticise him too much as he probably was the best mid today but indeed that in itself is worrying and as said, liability defensively.
He has to Hollywood, because he can't carry the ball forward.
No matter how good his passing was, his total lack of mobility and pace are a complete liability as a starter.
Disagree with that, he just needs the right role - he needs to be a quarterback style midfielder as he can control the game without needing to be too mobile but that can only fit into that role with 5 at the back.
He played well last night - 4 key passes and lots of effective switching of the play and unlucky with one piledriver in the first half and wasn't dispossessed in the game - his pass success wasn't great but guess that follows with trying to play longer balls to effect the game. His set pieces were also pretty good, though ironic that we scored from his worst corner.
He can't start every game but last night showed he can do 90 mins and positively effect the game. My only negative really was when he tried to chip the keeper in the last seconds - I can kind of see why but there was a slide ball on that would have freed Joao so was the wrong call.