Cule4life
The Culest
Called that (#*$ again.
Change ur name to Oraclegami
Called that (#*$ again.
Change ur name to Oraclegami
He's barely missed that curler twice now. That shot is going to be worth a handful of goals in itself over the course of a season.
Dembele needs to watch and learn from him
We look so much better offensively with him and Dembele in the side. A class goal from a high class player.
As much skill and quality as this guy has he really needs to improve his positional discipline and awareness on the pitch massively. When he plays in the place of Iniesta he needs to realize he is a LM not a LW. Many times last night he pushed up far too high and it sometimes looked like we were playing with a front 4.
Here's an example from last night just before we scored the 6th goal:
You could chalk his positioning down to the fact we had a huge lead and it really didn't matter anymore, but there is no excuse to be that high up on the pitch especially when the ball hasn't crossed half way line yet. His job is to break down the opponent's midfield with cutting passes/dribbles through the lines of defense and get the balls to our forwards in space, not to push up to the point where he could essentially be considered a 4th forward. He needs to tuck into the midfield like I have illustrated providing the CBs with a passing option and allowing Alba to push a little higher up and wider to give us width and overlap creating attacking combinations on the left since Suarez plays centrally. His positioning was also one of the biggest reasons why Girona were able to break on the counter so easily, when he's caught up in attack we lose our structure and numbers in the midfield allowing us to be overrun.
I hope this part of his game massively improves over time or otherwise we cannot play him in the midfield against the bigger sides.