#16 | Rodri - 2020/21 Performances

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CmonCity92 said:
I agree Rodri started the season off great. Was probably our best player in the first half of the season with Foden, but the guy absoutely hit a physical or mental wall. He started turning the ball over for fun.. Just off the top of my head he had bad ones vs Gladbach, Chelsea(leading to their goal), Dortmund, etc..
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Neither Rodri nor Foden had good first halves of the season.

Rodri struggled up to Christmas. He was much better in our winning run but he wasn’t good in the first half of the season, he was one of the players I was most disappointed with.

Foden had a poor start to the season. He was bobbins against Leicester Leeds Porto WestBrom… he was in and out of the side, couldn’t get a rhythm going. He then became a different player from Christmas onwards.

Gundogan was our best player in the first half of the season.

Rodri wasn’t picked last night because he’s too slow.
 
FromPollockToSilva said:
Was arguably our best player the last time we beat Chelsea. Most touches, passes and tackles of anyone in our team in that 3-1 win earlier in the season
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If you watch back that game away against Chelsea he had a shocking first twenty minutes. Chelsea were up for it early doors and were pressing him in numbers, he was getting dispossessed easily and he actually set up Chelsea’s two best chances in the game by shitting himself turning round and passing it to them. If we’d gone behind in that game, he was the prime candidate for why it would have happened.

When we went 0-2 up he was brilliant. Chelsea’s heads’ dropped and they stopped pressing him. He’s the ideal player when we need to slow the game down when he’s not being pressed, he’s not then man we need from the outset of games (there have been multiple games for us where the opposition are energetic and pressing early doors and Rodri looks crap!) or when we’re chasing games.

Rodri wasn’t selected last night because of those reasons, and his lack of pace against the fastest midfielder around (although the selection of Gundo in that position is also baffling because he’s slow n’all).
 
He seemingly has a bit of work to do to convince Pep that he can be trusted. His performances and errors against Brighton and Chelsea in the league sealed his fate and he now needs to use this as a wake up call because he has missed potentially the biggest game of his life through his own poor performances leading up to it.

The jury is still out for me on him. I think he is too slow and you can’t coach that.
 
Players lose form sometimes. If the CL final was in February, both Rodri and Cancelo would have started the game.

The problem for us was that Rodri and Cancelo weren't the only players whose form dropoed from the heights of January and February. The same holds for most of our players: Dias (after PSG, but also already at Wembley vs Chelsea), Gundogan, Bernardo...
 
samarasra said:
His major contribution to the success of our season really becomes obvious when he is absent.
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He didn’t deserve to play last night though. Those errors against Brighton and Chelsea were schoolboy. Pep must have watched that and thought he can’t play against these again because they will be all over him like a rash. That left Fern as the choice but he is 36! It’s really not an ideal situation. Fern would have been a booking waiting to happen in that game last night. I think that’s why he changed it and it didn’t work. I think it’s an area we need to strengthen even if that means not renewing Ferns contract.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
He didn’t deserve to play last night though. Those errors against Brighton and Chelsea were schoolboy. Pep must have watched that and thought he can’t play against these again because they will be all over him like a rash. That left Fern as the choice but he is 36! It’s really not an ideal situation. Fern would have been a booking waiting to happen in that game last night. I think that’s why he changed it and it didn’t work. I think it’s an area we need to strengthen even if that means not renewing Ferns contract.
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Totally agree, good player but has these errors in his game especially when targeted by the opposition
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Neither Rodri nor Foden had good first halves of the season.

Rodri struggled up to Christmas. He was much better in our winning run but he wasn’t good in the first half of the season, he was one of the players I was most disappointed with.

Foden had a poor start to the season. He was bobbins against Leicester Leeds Porto WestBrom… he was in and out of the side, couldn’t get a rhythm going. He then became a different player from Christmas onwards.

Gundogan was our best player in the first half of the season.

Rodri wasn’t picked last night because he’s too slow.
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He wasn't picked coz Pep is a tinkerer who sometimes outhinks himself.

As far was watching the presser before the game I kept praying, oh Pep don't try to trick anyone. Mano e Mano, let the Best team win. Rodri or Fernandihno. There were no other acceptable answers. :(
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
He didn’t deserve to play last night though. Those errors against Brighton and Chelsea were schoolboy. Pep must have watched that and thought he can’t play against these again because they will be all over him like a rash. That left Fern as the choice but he is 36! It’s really not an ideal situation. Fern would have been a booking waiting to happen in that game last night. I think that’s why he changed it and it didn’t work. I think it’s an area we need to strengthen even if that means not renewing Ferns contract.
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Mistakes notwithstanding. He should have played him or play the aging legend. Everything we won and every game we've won, included one of them. To play neither was a deep unwarranted insult to the DMs...

And for what? An out of form winger? This is the kinda decision I'd leave the club over it I were one of Dihno or Rodri.

We could very well have lost with both or either in there. Nothing is guaranteed. But having neither made it significantly more likely :(
 
worsleyweb said:
He is decent - not champions league winner material. That’s why he didn’t play!
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We had none of the balance and control we had from Jan. to April because he or Ferna didn't play. We were a man short in defence, Stones' Dias', Zinchenko's, Gundogan's passing options and performances dropped considerably, because so much of the play at our best went through Rodri or Ferna when he played. We had no link. We lacked his heading ability in defence and attack. Instead of playing from a solid defensive foundation like we did most of the season, we looked like we were playing in quicksand. It was like putting the Mona Lisa on display with the eyes painted over or a jigsaw puzzle with a central piece missing. By your standards all Chelsea players are "champions league winner material" , they have medals to prove it, but the players that beat Chelsea by 19 points over 38 games are not.
 
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