10 | Jack Grealish - 2022/23 Performances

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Grealish isn't a winger and is completely wasted out there for me. His quality is receiving the ball on the half turn in the spaces between midfield and defence and then feeding in those up top.

He hasn't set the world alight since he's been here which I thought he would but I do think he needs to be in the middle, unfortunately he isn't as good as the players playing there currently!
 
Jack and Cancelo don't work together and that's a big issue. But it's on Jack to improve and tweak his game slightly. Both players like the ball to feet and rarely make a run into space. They rely on others moving and want to create. Jack looks so much better when he's playing with a left footer, using their overlap as a decoy - or not. But he needs to evolve his game because Cancelo plays at LB more often than not.

The Mahrez comparisons are always interesting. He was frustrating for the opposite reasons. Dribbled and shot a lot when better options seemed on. But he still got 7 goals and 4 assists in the league in his first season and has followed it up with 31 goals and 29 assists in the following 3. Jack's got a long way to go to deliver numbers like that. He has to start looking for the ball into space and moving in behind at times - he also needs to get into the box more as he did against Wolves. He can't expect to always get the ball to feet and have others running off him. He wants to draw players in, beat them and feed it into someone. But with City he often just ends up passing to Cancelo or central and then staying in the same position.

I'm interested to see if he plays with a left footed LB tomorrow night. I think we'll see a lot more of him if he does. He ran the game at home to Copenhagen, I'm not sure why he played with more dynamism that night (although largely in the second half)? Was it because Gomez was at LB? Was it because Bernie and De Bruyne weren't on past 60 minutes so he stepped up to drive us forwards?
 
Tomblue said:
Grealish isn't a winger and is completely wasted out there for me. His quality is receiving the ball on the half turn in the spaces between midfield and defence and then feeding in those up top.

He hasn't set the world alight since he's been here which I thought he would but I do think he needs to be in the middle, unfortunately he isn't as good as the players playing there currently!
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He's predominantly played on the wing in his career. The issue is he doesnt feed those up top with cute D.Silva/gundo/Kev-esque passes, he's a transition player who drives into space (usually on the counter) and commits players before laying off the ball or having shot.
With teams sitting so deep against city there's rarely opportunities for him to do this, I can recall one from the weekend where he won the freekick driving at a leicester defence on the counter which we scored from. But he really struggles against a settled low block defence to create or get past a man, resulting in him turning back and passing it to the fullback or midfielder.
There's no chance pep will trust him in the heartbeat of his team where he requires top quality pace setters and passers of the ball, foden barely gets a look in there and his ability and footballing IQ for what pep wants is above grealish's.
 
Karen Beardsley called him the No Stat Hero in the matchday live for the Sevilla game. Nedum echoed some of her points of how he’s the one doing things others won’t appreciate or bother with…winning the free kick for Kev’s goal and things like that.

Not that it’s hard to see but it’s nice hearing coherent analysis on things like that compared to all the nonsense those on sky/bt spout.
 
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Big game for Jack tonight. A left footed left back behind him. Support from Foden in the middle...nowhere to hide if he doesn't make an impact. Tonight's your night lad, go and get a goal or two!
 
kye1991 said:
Have you forgotten how to read? Maybe the big red nose hindered your vision.

You've taken something iv never said and then somehow used it to question me with.
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Lol. Comprehension not your strong point?

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That’s your response mate. You’d be pissed off if we won every game if Haaland didn’t score. Crazy point of view for me
 
Kadour75 said:
I hope that someday he will start targetting the goal instead of opponents’ calves !
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Perhaps he can be booked an appointment with Rico Lewis. Perhaps he can learn a thing or two about avoiding shins and opponents calves! Or maybe not, or maybe he just simply has a thing for calves, his calves and opponents calves, just seem to fascinate him!
 
domalino said:
It was a shame he was taken off as I thought he looked quite up for it, and it was obviously a shape issue, bringing on a defensive midfielder for him, not a performance thing.
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Shame Mahrez wasn’t really to get Palmer on the right and see more of Foden in the middle. That said the switch worked well and once again the Mahrez/Grealish wide combo was shite.
 

Seems like the very worst man management, to reward "the best player" by hooking him rather than moving him, say to midfield. Guardiola's man management of Grealish (subbing/dropping him when he's played well) should be taught as an example of what NOT to do to give a player confidence and encourage form.
 
Takes TOO MANY touches and has no early shot.

A player like him HAS TO make the defender commit, so that he can’t get a shot off. Grealish RARELY presents as a shooting threat, with his kickout pass to Cancelo or Rodri a more likely shot opportunity.

On current form, it’s hard to find a starting place for him, but with Pep it’s horses for courses!

Inverted full backs or get them down the line?

Today, in the second half, when we switched to “down the line FBs,” we were significantly quicker and more dangerous with the ball, as it allowed us to pack the midfield with KDB, Rodri, Bernie, plus Riyad and Phil playing inside and flooding the channels!
 
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JTFactsPlz said:

Seems like the very worst man management, to reward "the best player" by hooking him rather than moving him, say to midfield. Guardiola's man management of Grealish (subbing/dropping him when he's played well) should be taught as an example of what NOT to do to give a player confidence and encourage form.
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I’m sorry, but you completely missed the tactical change it helped create, which also resulted in a win!
 
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