Natural goalscorer or not. His first touch lets him down way too much for my liking. This shouldn't happen every game.
Couple this with his inability to dribble past defenders and his goals really overshadow his overall performances. Or am I too harsh?
I can show you clips or gifs where his first touch is
out of this world. For every clumsy touch there is at least a brilliant one. You need to see the big picture here, and that big picture seems to show that, so far this season, Alexis has been quintessential for Barcelona and his national team. The rest is opened for interpretation, but his performances were often world class this season and that is a fact.
Alexis has south-american unpredictability and wildness. That often works to his advantage, but sometimes it looks like, somehow, he has learned to do only the hardest things in football - like a perfect chip or a cascade of dribblings -, and forgot to learn the easy, routine, stuff. He has some
hiccups in his play, but, when you look at how much he brings to the team, the hiccups don't really matter that much. In time, once he will become more mature and less of a Niño Maravilla, he will lose some of the things that
define him as a player. He will have less bad touches, but less brilliant executions too - because both the genius and the crazy misses come from the same young part of him. But, right now, were talking about the yin and yang of Alexis - with the very important amendament that the yang (good part) is overshadowing the yin (bad part) and certainly not the other way around. You don't cherry pick what you like and don't like in a player, but rather appreciate the package or you don't. Right now,
I think we need Alexis Sanchez more than Alexis Sanchez needs us. He could play even better in other teams, due to the fact that his style is not really tailor made for Barcelona, but I'm very happy with his overall performance so far this season.
"This shouldn't happen every game" - and this is a clear and biased exaggeration from my point of view. His bad moments this season were sporadical and pretty much irrelevant, certainly not present in every game as you suggest. Neymar had some bad executions too this season, but few bring that up and the reason is simple. When compared with the good things Neymar brings to our game, the bad misses and clumsy executions don't matter. This is also the case of Alexis.
And how do you know the Ronaldo from my own post doesn't stand for the brasilian player? I usually say Cristiano Ronaldo when I'm refering to the portuguese.
