He played well tonight and I feel for him a bit. Hope he continues working and staying amongst the goals. I criticized him harshly in the past but he is at least trying and fighting to find his form and place here, unlike Coutinho.
I really want to highlight his post-match comments though because they were very telling for me. You could tell he was gutted by the lost, especially when he thought he won it for us but his comments about the lack of communication spoke volumes for me. Here is someone who is coming more from an outside perspective, who worked with someone like Simeone and crucially is now seeing first hand another bottle-job here. Since he was not here during Roma and Liverpool, his perspective on this is rather illuminating into the deeper problems here.
I am very slow to criticize Leo but I do think apart of all of this is what happens when a player like him is your captain compared to Puyol. Leo is never going to be the one barking orders in terms of marking during a set piece and that lack of communication and command continues to haunt us time and time again. It is not all on Leo, honestly Lenglet and Alba in particular need to be the ones making those calls but instead we have Alba leaving men onsides, marking nobody and ducking the ball when he should be clearing it.
The question now is clearly leadership on the field and the problem is that the players who are seen as ?leaders? are not leading, plain and simple.
