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Lol...give him time.
After international break we'll see more.
Are wales playing
Lol...give him time.
After international break we'll see more.
Well this thread certainly turned.....
Waiting for the "Cancel the loan!" comments
I don't know about that last bit, old chap. If we're talking about comparing an unknown young player with one who has, in the past, been considered amongst the best in the world, is it really unreasonable to apply differing standards?He also needs to perform in those minutes, though. He was lazy today and made no real attempt to support Vinicius. Granted Bergwijn was equally bad but we can’t say “player X doesn’t start because he’s poor” then start Bale because he needs minutes.
Looks to me like a man who doesn't fully trust his body. Once you've had a few injuries and been on the sidelines for an extended period that can happen. Looks to me that he's conscious of doing too much too early and breaking down. TBH he found a lot of good positions tonight and showed some nice touches but a lot of that goes unnoticed as when he found those positions Dele ignored him it was very strange he would try anything to get out of passing to Bale.
It's almost incomprehensible to me that he'd refuse to pass to Bale. If it's really the case, that's beyond the pale.Yeah. He looks Tentative, that’s the word. As for Deli ignoring him (allegedly) that’s weird and another nail in Delis spurs coffin lid.
My main concern is he does not really do anything aggressively, and that is key for a WF in the way Jose wants us to play. The WFs need to press aggressively when we don't have the ball, and they need to run aggressively when we counter, they need to cover a lot of ground. I know he is not match fit and nowhere near 100% yet, but I get the impression that he will not be playing the same way Son, Bergwijn and Moura do as WFs which is concerning for team shape. Last night, with both him and Dele sauntering around we looked very poor. If Bale is not fully fit yet then he needs to do the 100% effort thing for 45 minutes and then come off as a spent force, rather than try and eek out more minutes with half the effort.
Further to that point, if I were a football superstar I wouldn't have been able to overdo it within yesterday's collective failure.so possibly didn't want him to overdo it against Antwerp.