serghei
Senior Member
What is on that Chelsea clip he really takes his time on the ball. He plays nice and easy. But it is not like "what will I do and waiting for help" slow players type.
He plays nice and easy with confidence on the ball. Waiting and holding the ball for the forward pass.
He also alway changes position for 1-2 passing and offers himself.
THis looks promising... My concern is what will be against A) high speed pressing B) parked bus.
I take a lot of faith in him and Arthur +3rd whoever (please no Roberto). Hope I am not wrong. Please make it happen.
It would be good for us if teams would start parking the bus again against us in the big games. It is a problem that they don't, and they actually go all out on us and fill our net with goals.
For me, now the problem is more that we fail to play our game when the other team is pressing us. Pretty strange thing to say for a Barcelona team, but actually Valverde turned us into mental midgets in terms of coping with pressing (Lucho did too to some extent). We used to be one of the teams you just don't go too attacking with, now we're the one elite side that you DO afford to go all guns blazing on because we play poor players under pressure in our midfield, and we leave the best one on the bench.
The priority is to use midfielders that are good passers, good movers, and don't shit themselves under pressure and under conditions of limited space. This simply means Arthur + De Jong in the vast majority of important games.
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