4 | Tijjani Reijnders - 2025/26

I still feel that as a unit, Foden Reijnders and Cherki don't do enough when the opposition have the ball and this puts too much pressure on Bernardo and Gonzalez.

Rodri's return is the key because our possession stats should hopefully then increase and this group weakness will be less exposed.
 
He’s getting more goals and some have been cracking finishes. Good to see.

But then he either goes missing for the rest of games or makes mistakes and jogs back afterwards. You don’t mind mistakes happening because all players make multiple mistakes a game but it’s how you react to them and he often just jogs after making a mistake and isn’t determined to win the ball back.

He wasn’t the only one after his mistake leading to Forest’s goal yesterday because all of Nico Foden Cherki and Reijnders were pathetic at getting back in transition.

But his goalscoring is starting to become a feature. If he could just use these goals to make himself more confident and assertive in games, it would be great. You have to be doing something in every minute of the game at this level of football. Even players in shit teams down the bottom of the league make things happen regularly in the PL, there’s no let up in this league, there’s no resting during games, you have to play every minute… and I don’t think Reijnders is doing this yet.

One thing I’m noticing, and it was a feature with Foden last season, is our players don’t pass the ball to Reijnders enough when he’s in space to be passed to. Get the fucking ball to him lads!
 
I can see him becoming a Gundo type player if given time, Happy to give him another 12 months to learn the system.
 
he's not getting enough credit for his goal. good pass from cherki but his run was brilliant and something we've dearly missed from midfield, plus a good finish. losing the ball for their goal was nothing more than unfortunate imo
 
asahartford1 said:
Glad Pep is still picking the team.
No fucka would play if it was fan led.
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On this particular issue,. I think Pep's on the same wavelength as most of the.posters on the thread.

Regardless of results, our last 4-5 away performances have been fairly similar and without Rodri's presence our possession stats are lower, with the midfield looking slow and lightweight,.and often outnumbered when the opposition have the ball.

Everyone can see that Reijnders is now contributing more goals and assists, but equally he's part of the imbalance.
 
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Scaring Europe to Death said:
On this particular issue,. I think Pep's on the same wavelength as most of the.posters on the thread.

Regardless of results, our last 4-5 away performances have been fairly similar and without Rodri's presence our possession stats are lower, with our midfield looking slow and lightweight,.and often outnumbered when the opposition have the ball.

Everyone can see that Reijnders is now contributing more goals and assists, but equally he's part of the imbalance.
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I don't know if pep is on the same wavelength as the majority of posters on this thread, I do know Reijnders has the joint most appearances of any player this Season. And Pep has selected him.

If Semenyo is added, and with Rodri and Doku available Reijnders will be rotated. But then so will a few more in this hectic schedule.
 
asahartford1 said:
I don't know if pep is on the same wavelength as the majority of posters on this thread, I do know Reijnders has the joint most appearances of any player this Season. And Pep has selected him.

If Semenyo is added, and with Rodri and Doku available Reijnders will be rotated. But then so will a few more in this hectic schedule.
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I didn't say that Reijnders was the problem mate.
 
would still expect him to come out of the team when doku is back/semenyo arrives, but he's done better recently.

His numbers are pretty good, despite occasionally disappearing
 
Like I said at the beginning. I’m Dutch and seen his whole process from AZ until now. On each club he needs a little bit time to settle in and after that he has the confidence and courage to be dominant. What he really needs to work on is his positioning defensefely. It’s sometimes like he’s restless and takes a step when not necessary, because of this step he’s a second too late when the ball is played no another player. At Milan from the middle till end of season 1 he was more agressive with then capture the ball but that faded away in his second season and still too passive besides the positioning. Also important that he needs to feel the rhythm of the attack much more. You need to feel which player need to receive the ball on which moment. If that has to be with a backheel, a lob or something else then you need to do that. He has a habbit in letting that moment pass by if the option isn’t clear. More long balls also. I must say he surprised everybody in Holland a lot because he usually is good at going with the flow eventually. He got that brain of improving and after that being dominant in the team. This is the highest of the highest level so very curious if he can do it also here.
 
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