I like RK, I really do. He doesn't have a perfect squad to play with and he has done pretty well, but his in game changes are getting really worrisome. It seems every time he makes a sub the team responds negatively.
This is either because the level of the subbed in players is way lower or because he disrupts the squad balance with wrong player profiles and I tend to believe the second case.
My two main points for the last game:
1. We have a meme like conversation in the Puig thread and many don't rate him at all, but his profile was better for closing out this game than Iliax, who also, isn't on the best run of form currently. So there is no good reason not to choose Puig as a sub at that point.
2. Sergi Roberto has been consistently below average every time he played, and still RK subs him in at a crucial point of the game, even though he provides little to no attacking threat and has a serious defensive mistake in him every time.
This has been a recurring theme for us this season and it doesn't seem to go away. I have been trying to remember the last time a change of personel mid game had a good impact on our overall performance and I can't. Surely there are some of those times, but they are the exception.
He has improved many things throughout the season and my hope is he can improve on that aspect too, but logic says this is one of his irreversible flaws, and is also one of the worst things to have, because if a game doesn't go our way from the get go, or the other team changes tactics mid game, we seem lost and only hope for a Messi miracle to pull us through. This is barely viable with current Messi but next season it will probably be impossible with him at 34-35 yo.