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What game are you even talking about? 2015? When he was subbed with 15 minutes to go cost us the game?
That mean son who came on For him is so inferior and that the gaping hole lamela left made they whole team crumble and concede a goal because we are useless without him?
You either rate lamela even higher than me or what you're saying totally does not compute
I don't get how this is so hard to understand for some people.
Away to Arsenal, yes in 2015.
We conceded 2 minutes after Lamela went off, the cross came from the side he was playing on.
Lamela was working hard and pressing and keeping up the high intensity game for us. But he was also being reckless and committing a lot of fouls, having already been booked. In case you're not aware, a red card for him would have seen us play with 10 men for the last 15 minutes. Taking him off was unfortunately the only option for Poch. Our intensity dropped and the pressing disintegrated. So yes, Lamela did cost us a win that day through his sheer lack of discipline or use of his brain.
My point is, although he appears to press well with intensity, he is not very good at tackling, which was the initial comment when someone suggested he could play at left wing back. Which he couldn't.
I actually don't rate Lamela that highly at all. I think if he hadn't suffered an injury last season he would have kicked on for us after his start to the season. But he's not first choice anymore. He isn't getting into our front 4 unless there's rotation or injury. And even at that, he's too slow to move the ball compared to how our front 4 finished the season, West Ham game aside.