Now you’re really scraping the barrel. Teams commit professional fouls all the time to waste time. Like when he was hauled down in middle of the pitch.
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Where is his passing option here? Unless you’re suggesting he gives the ball away...
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This is the challenge. That tackle would take down an ox.
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This is where he was hauled down in the middle. Where should he release ball to?
Pic no1: pass the ball to a free player on the right (is that Busi?) and DON'T try to dribble past 2-3 players because you will either lose the ball or get fouled (and lose 60 seconds).
That free player will run until 2 opponents will surround him and then he will pass the ball to the next free player, usually on the flank, because 4 opponents are now "lost" by chasing Denis and then Busi.
Pic no3, I am quite sure that there are more players on the left.
If not, lol, what has Denis expected? To dribble all these players (4 of them) and go alone and score with his average dribbling skills, average pace and too high falling-down-under-the-slightest-touch ability.
If there was no one around (and again, imo, there were players on the left), he should have done Xaviesque or Busquetsesque turn back and pass the ball to a free teammate in a better position, usually a backpass or the pass to the opposite, right flank where there is more free space and less opponents.
Unless, again if you guys or him think that he could have solved this situation in 1 vs 1 dribbling duels...
You know that feeling when Rakitic tries to dribble a player and then he loses the ball and usually falls down in the end?
Well, this was the same.
There was zero possibility that Denis will do something in these situations with his level of dribbling skills, pace, physique and decisions making.
He was too eager to take the ball and do something (in a solo action), as if he is some sort of a key player. And just kept losing the ball or ending on the ground over and over.
I'll say it here: Bartra, Sergi Roberto and now Denis are three the most overrated (and biased) players on this forum, in the last 5 years.
I will never understand what has this guy done to earn such
a huge amount of love and so many credits by some of you.