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He's still nowhere near DM thoughOctober 2016:
September 2017:
"Oh yeah! We all knew from the start he was CM anyway".
He's still nowhere near DM thoughOctober 2016:
September 2017:
"Oh yeah! We all knew from the start he was CM anyway".
October 2016:
September 2017:
"Oh yeah! We all knew from the start he was CM anyway".
Very good game tonight.
What I've seen, and with Winks today he did it a bit less, that in defense he picks up a lot of Dembele's role alongside Dier as that sort of side shifting enforcer and ball poacher with Eriksen a bit forward then in transition Eriksen drops a bit while Sissoko moves up the pitch into that more RAM role with the goal of pulling opposition players mid transition to free up space for Eriksen to operate (which he did well vs. Everton) or working the ball with another player up the pitch (which he did well vs. West Ham).Hes not been playing CM if you actually watch him, he drops down to CM but he plays more of an advanced CM/AM role that drifts right but not like last season when he was right of the three
This him against swansea
What this doesnt show is that Vertonghen and Alderwiereld were pretty much our CM's in the last 10 mins and Trippier's position is skewed due to him playing RB and LWB
He's definitely starting to do the right things and is making contributions, I'm happy for the guy. The fact that we're now getting some use from him is great.
Like said it's slowly improving. It started at Everton in which he had the right intentions and was doing the right things but the application was poor, was offside a few times in what should have been good chances and looked a bit clumsy still. Now he's still doing those right things but is looking a bit more composed and confident in those advanced positions and has even had a few assists to his name now.
That drive through the middle that he can provide is something that we can lack so much at times when the play is all a bit too slow and static. Hope he can keep improving!
I think we're all kidding ourselves here.
Last season he looked like he won a competition to be on the pitch. This season he looks like a footballer, but still a bang average one. Yes he's putting in more effort, but I'm not going to jizz my pants due to the fact that he's actually trying.
I think we're all kidding ourselves here.
Last season he looked like he won a competition to be on the pitch. This season he looks like a footballer, but still a bang average one. Yes he's putting in more effort, but I'm not going to jizz my pants due to the fact that he's actually trying.