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To be fair to the guy he's going to look even worse with Dier and Dembele next to him. Game slowed to a bloody standstill.
The fact he is our most used player is the real mystery.
It's not a mystery because it isn't a fact. You've made it up.
Now Dele has been putting in some real turd performances of late.., but I can’t shake the feeling that he, along with some of or other attacking players (bar the freak Kane) would look a little better if there was a real threat on the pitch making space and providing incisive passing and running rather than Sissoko. That’s not to absolve him of anything but a player like that needs the space provided by intelligent teammates to work properly..
Sure, Sissoko has looked good-ish in some of our biggest games where he can get his gallop on, and so he has a use in this squad if we’re keeping him (which it looks like we are). It’s just asking for trouble if he’s played with the other of our more ponderous midfield players and it brings out the worst in all of them. It’s not that he’s in our squad that’s the issue but that he’s being used way too often in games he’s entirely unsuited for.
But I wouldn’t feel too sorry for him like some others, he’s paid a lot to play nearly every week for a top club, we can probably count his truly impressive performances on one hand and one of those was because he was very good at taking the ball repeatedly to the corner flag..
Don't get me wrong, Vertonghen, Davies and Vorm were the only players yesterday to emerge with any kind of performance, maybe a 7 at best. But I can't help but think dembele and Alli, as shit as they were, would have preferred not to have the human shadow as an option.
They were absolute shite, with Dier too, but it's like he's petrified of the ball. Hiding in case the ball ever came near him, miscontrolling and trying the most safe of passes every single time.
We don't need a right winger who's first instinct is to get the ball and immediately go backwards every single time, unless absolutely forced to try something going forward. We haven't even seen these lung bursting powerful runs that he's apparently good at. I'm not even that mad at him, he's just so out of his depth it's no wonder he's petrified. The fact he is our most used player is the real mystery.
He has one goal and one assist I believe in the league this year. Great ball for Kane at Burnley and a finish of the maximum of fuss against Huddersfield. He brings next to nothing to the team on a weekly basis and my main issue is he never looks like he might.
As bad as dembele and Alli were, you at least have it in your head that Alli could score aworldy or produce something from nothing. Alli has disappointed this season but his numbers are still up there, he's contributing. Sissoko isn't.
I heard that he voted for Trump.So it's Sissoko's fault for others playing badly now too? Anything else you want to blame on him?
As opposed to praising them for playing poorly?So now we have people running to protect Sissoko by slating other players who played poor yeaterday? Oh wow.
So now we have people running to protect Sissoko by slating other players who played poor yeaterday? Oh wow.
So now we have people running to protect Sissoko by slating other players who played poor yeaterday? Oh wow.