10 | Jack Grealish - 2022/23 Performances

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He's always been a great player. He was always going to need a full season to adapt. Playing for Villa and Man City couldn't be more different for a hundred reasons. There are few players like him in world football who can do what he's great at.
 
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He has been playing well since he signed. He's just looking more aggressive these days. That's the only difference.
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Deluded. He is playing better but not a high benchmark. Not unhappy when he is picked but never think of him as a great influencer. A 'decent,' squad player. I always put club before an individual. 18 months of mediocrity with occasional flashes. Enjoyed some of his risky plays (even though not always successful) in recent games. Puts paid to the myth that Pep doesn't want him to do that. Needs to go up a few levels yet or do you think he has now reached his potential?
 
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Still find him underwhelming. Countless times he has his fullback 1 on 1 and I think the shot on target in the first half was the only time he went past him. Should be offering so much more for £100m. Effort is a given but should he contributing more in terms of creating chances or fashioning something for himself.
 
The big thing I kept saying he lacked all last season and most of this, was aggression in his game.

He played like his off-pitch personality comes across as… nice! But that’s no good in a sport like football. You can’t have nice lads on the pitch.

Since that cameo at Chelsea he’s seemed to find some aggressiveness from somewhere and it’s made the world of difference. Great to see. A good start to 2023 for him.

There are a few things now that must be worked on: maintaining that aggression and then finding an end-product from somewhere.

He’s like the complete opposite of Sterling - dead tidy on the ball all the way up to the last thing he does; whereas I always found Sterling a tough watch on the ball all the way up until he came up with an assist or banged one in the net. Imagine ever finding a player who had the best of both!

But maintain the ‘umph’ and start finding some goals and better quality crossing and he’ll become a cracking player.
 
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He was bought, and is deployed, as an attacking player. But for me he just doesn’t have that killer instinct or good enough final ball. He keeps it well, don’t get me wrong, but he spends more time going backwards with it then he does actually running at the opposition goal. So many one on ones not really resulting in much.

Good player, and to his credit he’s improved this season, but we could do so much better for that left side.
 
Hart of the Matter said:
Enjoyed some of his risky plays (even though not always successful) in recent games. Puts paid to the myth that Pep doesn't want him to do that. Needs to go up a few levels yet or do you think he has now reached his potential?
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IMO Ake as LB and Lewis as a RB helps here.

When Lewis plays as an inverted RB, he enables Rodri to pay more attention on the defensive/attacking work on the left hand side.

Ake is not as good attacking as Cancelo or Zinchenko. But he usually takes a safer position behind to give Grealish protection - which gives Grealish more confidence and less worry going forward.

It is a chemistry thing. Today's team and the team against Spurs seem to be the best chemistry at the moment.
 
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Needs to improve on his 1v1 output and then we have a serious player. About a 7/10 at the moment. Heads for cover but look what rashford is doing over the road.
 
Well played again. He is the type of player you need in a battle. Never hides and always tries to impact the game.
 
Goldust said:
Needs to improve on his 1v1 output and then we have a serious player. About a 7/10 at the moment. Heads for cover but look what rashford is doing over the road.
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What turns up for 2 months out of 18? No thanks. Fishy has the media onside so makes a difference.
 
Haaland’s first goal today is the epitome of what Pep wants from Grealish and Mahrez - draw men to you and lay it back for somebody to whip the ball in. It worked a great in 2018/19 with Bernardo on the wing too.

The issue is, Mahrez has KDB to lay it off to and Grealish has…nobody who can whip in a left footed cross with as much danger so as a result his side always seems a little blunt unless he is aggressive and goes at his man.

I’ve done a 180 on him recently, though. I was getting bored of seeing him getting it and giving it backwards but the past month or so it’s felt like there’s a bit of purpose to him/it. Whether it’s because he’s mixed it up a few times so it’s not as samey for 90 minutes I don’t know. He just seems a lot more dangerous, more often when he gets it.
 
Great effort and desire but still so disappointing in the final third, he always gives defenders time to block or cut out his crosses/shots.
 
clear improvement but still trying to blast in a shot, over placement. Had loads of shots saved this season, and I think just a little more care and placement will turn some of those into goals.
 
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