ajnotkeith
Senior Member
You are the one who can't judge the stats.
He dribbles, shoots and tries difficult or strange passes a lot, no one believes otherwise. These are his success rates. Of course he will also be high in absolute numbers in for example these stats lik SCA and GCA.
Braithwaite and Sergi Roberto have in this moment as many assists and non-penalty goals as Depay, despite playing less than half of his minutes, and without being even close to the low success rates of Depay.
Whenever Depay shoots, another player doesn't get the chance to shoot.
Basically he is one of the only ones in the squad with some initiative. Most of our players when they get the ball just pass it sideways or backwards and wait for someone to do something whilst they pad their pass completion rate with 5 yard backpasses.
You need players sometimes that aren't afraid to take their man on and perhaps fail sometimes, like Dest and Depay who showed their qualities against Levante.
'Whenever Depay shoots, another player doesn't get the chance to shoot' That's the problem with most of our squad. They don't take their man on or take a shot, they pass sideways to someone else and look at them to do something. Not every player should be a guy who passes it all game.
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