Please make your point
I'd be guessing... Either he's playing it too safe or been told to.
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Please make your point
Oh I see. Idk mate. He always played like this didn’t he?I'd be guessing... Either he's playing it too safe or been told to.
No.... That's my point.... See the first post of mine you replied to. We started off playing him as #8.Oh I see. Idk mate. He always played like this didn’t he?
Last season he was taking more risks and braver when taking people on. What's happened?
I'd be guessing... Either he's playing it too safe or been told to.
Or there was very little intelligent movement or creativity going on around him either, until Eriksen and Lo Celso came on.
I'm looking beyond just today's game.
Tbh, I have more questions than answers atm.
I just despair at the idea it's gonna take till xmas to get our new MF up and running; it's meant to unlock our attacking players yet it seems we're in danger of them (the AMs) becoming the excuse and thus shifting the blame from one dept. to the next.... Meanwhile were defending like strangers too.
Despite proper rest and some new faces, the funk from last season has carried over into this.
it’s about moving the ball quickly so that the defense is stretched and attackers are getting the ball in space. It’s also about pressing hard and winning the ball early so that we can create those transition opportunities that are more dangerous (Winks still hasn’t had an interception all season). We just knocked safe passes around the midfield for ages, and that’s on Winks and Sissoko. If we had tried ambitious passes, we would have had less possession, but we would have created more chances and had more opportunities to press and win the ball in dangerous areas.
Salah and Mane aren’t super creative. They just have a high-energy midfield that presses like crazy and feeds them super quickly, so they have a chance to run against unsettled defenses, even when they’re playing a parked bus. If you let Sonny and Lucas run against backpedaling defenders, they’re going to get some assists, too.
I'm starting to feel winks is obsolete against most of our opposition this season
He is too Conservative for progressive passing and too weak to be a defensive midfielder. He just fools spectators into thinking he’s making things tick when the ball could easily just travel through and past him to the next player and nothing about the move would change.
I’ve completely flipped on my opinion of him in the last couple months and it makes me sad.
The dude only plays a sideway , back pass 90% of a douchbag game.Or there was very little intelligent movement or creativity going on around him either, until Eriksen and Lo Celso came on.
To be fair, considering how attrocious Winks has been I'd rather take a punt on you at CM at this point.
But hes our Busquets and Modric blah blah. He's not our Busquets and we arent Barcelona. A below average immitation of something good is still below average.
From Dembele/Dier and Dembele/Wanyama to Winks/Sissoko. Yikes.