10 | Jack Grealish - 2022/23 Performances

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To see Grealish play like that every game pep will have to play attacking fullbacks to give him space! Pep loves control last night we didn’t have it and pep will go back to the control football after the World Cup
 
Played really well last night but it had a lot to do with how open Chelsea were, and how open the game was generally. Come Saturday Brentford will park the bus, but people will still be impatiently waiting for him to suddenly canter into spaces that don't exist.

It'll be 0-0 after 25 mins and people on here will be moaning like, "Why isn't Grealish doing anything? Why is he always passing sideways and backwards? Why doesn't he shoot more?" while ten Brentford players just stand between Grealish and the goal. Looking forward to it.

Pep needs to find a way to get Grealish picking the ball up deeper and more centrally than he normally does. That's how we'll get the best out of him.
 
Scottyboi said:
Never seen a player so unlucky with his shots lol.
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Honestly don't think this gets mentioned enough. It's not even me making excuses for him - for some reason he just doesn't get the bounce in the area. Obviously it's a skill to make your own luck in football, but there are times where he must think someone upstairs is putting a forcefield in front of the goals.

It happens with his assists as well. He had the highest xA in the Premier League last season but somehow only ended up with three assists. I've lost count of how many times he's played a decent pass on for someone to shoot, but they've either missed or just not taken on the opportunity themselves. It's maddening, haha.

The example I always come back to is against Leipzig in the Champions League last season. Played a perfect through ball for Cancelo to go 1-on-1 with their keeper but Cancelo hit the post; he then played a nice ball through to Mahrez for another 1-on-1 but he hit it straight at the keeper. It's little things like that all the time.
 
Best word I can find for last night’s performance - and the difference from previous showings - was PURPOSEFUL. Everthing he did was bold and positive, with the single-minded aim of creating fear in Chelsea’s defence.

He was determined to get on the scoresheet too and unlucky not to do so.
 
youngbob said:
Played really well last night but it had a lot to do with how open Chelsea were, and how open the game was generally. Come Saturday Brentford will park the bus
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True,but Brentford will also be forced into parking the bus because of our ball retention and midfield dominance,and that's very much counter productive as far as Jacks main strengths are concerned.
 
Grealish should start more big games that are likely to be as open as last night's against Chelsea.

Think we'd have come away with a different result at Anfield if he'd started. Same goes for Newcastle away.
 
shemnel said:
if i'm being totally honest, last night's Jack vs Chelsea was the midfielder i thought we'd bought; aggressive, skillful, creative and a general menace. Perhaps he's struggled, perhaps City have shackled him, but i'd like to see more of this Grealish in the future.
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100% agree. When Bernardo and Phillips came on Jack slipped inside of Palmer and it was vintage Villa Grealish. He's an attacking LCM, not a wide forward who plays on the touchline. If he stepped into Gundo's role he could explode for us. Then we could move for a Leao type of wide forward.
 
FantasyIreland said:
True,but Brentford will also be forced into parking the bus because of our ball retention and midfield dominance,and that's very much counter productive as far as Jacks main strengths are concerned.
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I think Jack can help break down that defensive wall if he mixes his game up as well as he did last night. What we can't have is the predictable pass inside or to Cancelo. Pep commented on that after the game. He needs to vary it. Engage the man, pop up in some different positions and cause extra numbers and drive at them. If Haaland's playing he can just draw the man in and look to feed him in. The main issue is that Cancelo won't be looking to run off Jack's shoulder into space because he also wants to cut inside. That little reverse blind pass to Gomez last night was genius and Gomez should have done more with it.
 
Almost feels like he is tailor made to play LCM from our old Centurian-style ways of Sane and Sterling on the wings holding the width and having two 10s play inside.

Imagine Sane LW and Grealish LCM, that would be very strong. I think Borges can perform that as well

Alternatively you can pair him with a left back to hold the width but it has to be a left-footed player. Cancelo does not work as its quite clear he will cut in and means we have no threat of the cross from the left.
 
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