10 | Jack Grealish - 2021/22 Performances

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youngbob said:
Missed him today. We need someone who keeps to the shape, keeps the rest of the team in shape and sets a nice pace, and keeps things ticking without forcing it or rushing it. Lacked a pacemaker today.
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What game did you watch? We had over 70% possession, made two and a half times as many passes as they did, we did not lack somebody to keep things ticking over, that's pretty much the only thing we had in abundance. what we lacked was somebody to create an actual clear cut goal scoring opportunity.
 
ninjamonkey said:
What game did you watch? We had over 70% possession, made two and a half times as many passes as they did, we did not lack somebody to keep things ticking over, that's pretty much the only thing we had in abundance. what we lacked was somebody to create an actual clear cut goal scoring opportunity.
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He runs at players (when allowed). He wins freekicks near the box (so we can get people who are taller than 5ft 6ins to attack the ball).
He's exactly what we missed tonight....as well as a left back, right back and 2 central defenders.
 
I know some people think stats are everything and some people think they're nothing, but when we talk about progressive actions he's so often the data point that dictates the size of one or more axis. He moves the ball forward to an extent that no-one else can get close to. If we're lacking penetration and chance creation he's exactly who Pep would have wanted to be able to bring on. It's not his fault we also lack a clinical striker.





Off-topic but nice to see, he seems to have spent today's match spreading a huge amount of joy amongst some of our young fans.





 
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madloaf said:
He runs at players (when allowed). He wins freekicks near the box (so we can get people who are taller than 5ft 6ins to attack the ball).
He's exactly what we missed tonight....as well as a left back, right back and 2 central defenders.
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The Grealish we've seen at City certainly doesn't run at players, not with any penetration and definitely not more than sterling. Doesn't matter either way though because Pep very clearly instructed our players to prioritise playing balls into the back post tonight, he asked all our wide men to do it, it's not something sterling or foden specialise in but they were doing it, if Grealish was on the pitch, he would have been doing it too. is Grealish significantly better at putting in those balls or getting on the end of those balls than sterling or any of the other forwards? That's the only thing that would have helped us today.

Him winning freekicks doesn't really matter, we had enough freekicks without him winning any and we must have hit double figures with corners for opportunities to put balls into the box for our defenders and it didn't really come close to coming off for us.
 
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