That controlled football that won the treble?I'm so glad I can stop banging on about us needing a winger who can take his man on. Everything he gets on the ball you think something can happen and it often does. Very eager to see him get in tune with the players, seeing a little give and go and releasing him in behind the fullback is going to be lethal once we get that part of the game into our patterns.
I predict he will have a big enough impact this season to persuade pep to go out and get another pacy winger next summer and we prioritize that wing play over the more easily managed controlling wing play from the likes of grealish and bernardo that he currently favours.
I'm so glad I can stop banging on about us needing a winger who can take his man on. Everything he gets on the ball you think something can happen and it often does. Very eager to see him get in tune with the players, seeing a little give and go and releasing him in behind the fullback is going to be lethal once we get that part of the game into our patterns.
I predict he will have a big enough impact this season to persuade pep to go out and get another pacy winger next summer and we prioritize that wing play over the more easily managed controlling wing play from the likes of grealish and bernardo that he currently favours.
Which is the way we should all be looking at it. But football fans being football fans need to pit one against another for some reason.Grealish gives us more control and is much better defensively. Doku is a direct threat. We now have 2 dynamite options on the left for different tests.
It started off shit, got a bit worse in the middle and ended poorly."more easily managed controlling wing play from the likes of grealish and bernardo that he currently favours"
My goodness...
You are really a hater, aren't you? You just cannot help yourself to dig on our other wingers because they replaced you favorite Raz and seize every opportunity to attack them. You have been bitter ever since then.
I see Doku as a golden chance to liberate Grealish/Bernado from the touchline. I don't know why some "fans" see him as a tool to dig on them...It started off shit, got a bit worse in the middle and ended poorly.
Yes. I didn't suggest one was useless did I? We can win the treble and still improve and adapt. Pep wouldn't remain here if he couldn't and it's his constant evolution that separates him from the rest. he's always a step ahead of the oppositions answer to last years tactics.That controlled football that won the treble?
Look, exciting football is great but let’s be honest it’s also the type of football that’s most likely to see is caught out and concede as the one against West Ham showed.
There’s a time and place for both types of winger, I personally don’t think that Pep will go all out attack anytime soon.
Like Messi.Really impressed with him so far - as soon as he picks up the ball 1v1 he gets me to the edge of my seat. Seems to have the fullback on toast more often than not. Though I must say as a player who looks lightening over 5 years he does seem to struggle over 20+! Maybe fitness but we had a few breakaway opportunities where he was nowhere to be seen.
We conceded because he gave a loose ball away, didn’t track back and a cross with no pressure was headed in. Your version of that goal is bollocks.Yes. I didn't suggest one was useless did I? We can win the treble and still improve and adapt. Pep wouldn't remain here if he couldn't and it's his constant evolution that separates him from the rest. he's always a step ahead of the oppositions answer to last years tactics.
Far more teams now set up extremely narrow in 2 banks against us and basically give up the wings in favour of plugging the centre. Having wingers like doku who can go beyond players and be a danger coming in or from out wide are the natural answer to that increasingly common setup.
It's the opposition that's likely going to influence peps tactics the most and not what he prefers. The more teams do that, The more he will naturally lean towards a doku type as its the natural answer. I'm simply predicting doku will be a big enough success to make pep and txiki say we need a second similar option either to play together or as a alternative.
We didn't concede against West ham because the winger tried to beat a man, a player had a bad touch in the opponents half and despite having more than ample cover we defended poorly, that goal showed nothing other than some poor defending.
Did you watch it? Seriously, go watch that goal again because you're talking out of your arse and i can only assume youre mis-remebering it.We conceded because he gave a loose ball away, didn’t track back and a cross with no pressure was headed in. Your version of that goal is bollocks.
Well put. I might be guilty of using the term ‘raw’ when describing him but its purely based on his decision making. He will improve vastly the more he works with Pep. Twice tonight and at times during the previous games, he rushed a pass and kicked it straight out of play. He clearly has fantastic attacking attributes but still has so much experience to gain.My meaning was the need to develop his in game decisions. When to attack the byline/space and when to cut back and recycle the ball.
At the moment, Doku is doing too much of the former, whereas Grealish does too much of the latter.
I can see us using one control winger and one speed winger. So it'd be him and Foden as the speed guy with Jack or Bernardo as the control winger.I see Doku as a golden chance to liberate Grealish/Bernado from the touchline. I don't know why some "fans" see him as a tool to dig on them...
This will be Nunes. Grealish will be left and Doku rightMaybe well see Grealish tucking into the middle more than Foden? In any case once Doku plays I'm happy.
...............Ederson...........
......Stones Dias Ake......
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.... Kovacic.. Grealish.....
Foden ... Alvarez .. Doku
............. Haaland ...........
He is really poor off the ball. You can tell he simply hasn't ever played on a team where he had serious defensive responsibilities.Pretty enjoyable to watch Doku today. He produced some goal opportunities through his own ability, as well as through team play.
Good signs of things to come offensively. ;)
Off the ball, he's going to have to work a lot harder here, though -- Pep will sort that out.
He’ll have to improve his fitness levels another notch. I think a year should be ample time for him to adjust to the demands here at City. Let’s hope it’s less than that amount of time, though, if possible!He is really poor off the ball. You can tell he simply hasn't ever played on a team where he had serious defensive responsibilities.
You can tell his brain gets its different here and he needs to hustle back at this level. But his body simply doesn't respond well to chasing backwards.
Yeah i watched it, I didn't say he tried taking a man on I said he gave a loose ball away and they scored within 3 touches.Did you watch it? Seriously, go watch that goal again because you're talking out of your arse and i can only assume youre mis-remebering it.
We lost possession not because our winger tried taking a man on. It was through a poor touch in the opposition half, which could have been an the rest is shite and yone. When we lost it, we had 6 players behind the ball at the time to cover their 3 attackers and half a pitch to do so, that's plenty of cover to deal with it. it was poor defending and absolutely nothing to do with the type of winger we had on the pitch as you seem to be claiming.