He had a lot of success in dribbling but at the same time Klopp managed to neutralize his effort quite well.I agree with most of that in terms of teams are much more wise to him. However, he was actually very good against Liverpool
That last sentence sums up our problems right now.He had a lot of success in dribbling but at the same time Klopp managed to neutralize his effort quite well.
Klopp put TAA into midfield marking Bernado and left a lot of space (and sometimes some dummy midfielder as a bait) for Doku to dribble into knowing his weakness in passing. Masterclasses. There was one or two cases doku made a good pass but as long as Halaand being marked it meant nothing.
HmmmThe problem isn't Doku, problem is that people lost the sense of hierarchy..
We have 100m treble-winner winger in Grealish, who earns 300K per week and has proven himself as a stable player throughout the entire 2022 / 2023 season. He is pro and should always be regarded as a regular starter...
Doku is 21 years old young player, who has proven nothing and who needs time to learn & become stable deliver of results.. Therefore he should be regarded as a valuable squad player, who is used during rotations or injury situations..
We have a lot of players like that.
Haaland, KDB, Foden, Bernardo & Grealish are our regular starters..
Julian, Doku, Bobb, Kovacic, Matheus are our bench / reserve players..
Same applies to
Ederson, Walker, Stones, Ruben, Ake, Rodri
and
Akanji, Guardiol, Rico, Gomez and Ortega
if we look from that perspective, Doku is a great addition, young & talented player, who can be rotated with regular starters whenever needed..
He's had a fairly standard start for an exciting young winger. Amazing for a while, then everyone realises how dangerous he is and gives him extra attention, so he's less effective for a while. It's now up to him to be able to adapt his game to show that he's genuinely class and can deal with the extra attention he gets. If he can do that, he'll probably become a world class player. If he can't, he'll end up being a bit-part player.Christ, some of the comments about him here are laughable.
It’s his first season, only 21 and instead of being gradually put into the team, he made himself undroppable early on and has been fairly consistent ever since. He’s been fantastic and has more than enough credit in the bank for a few bad moments.
Oddly the comments started after Chelsea (especially the daft **** who sits behind me at games who treated him like a make a wish kid when he came on against Brentford), but he was actually brilliant in that game and created more than enough openings that we just didn’t finish. He’s that relentless he has countless runs at his defender every game so not every single one will work - unless you’re Messi or prime Neymar.
Lower expectations a bit (for now) and just enjoy seeing a proper winger legging it as his man and having fun.
Score a couple and he'll be back in everybody's good books.After a promising start he has faded badly. Needs to do much more.
A couple of simple passes wouldn’t go amiss imo . Needs to release the ball hopefully it will all click into place early days for him yet .Score a couple and he'll be back in everybody's good books.