#16 | Rodri - 2020/21 Performances

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People cannot have watched this match to single out Rodri negatively. He continually intercepted the ball and distributed it quickly and forwards. We dominated the match against a ten-man defence and missed several chances. In this particular game, KDB, Cancelo, Mendy, and Sterling all performed poorly, much less ably than Rodri and made little of the possession that they had. Only if your mind has already been made up would you single Rodri out.
 
decmancity said:
So it's Rodri fault now that the likes of Sterling are stood 4ft away passing him the ball and then don't move outside of that.
And we did have chances, Sterling header, Gundogan header, Aguero put through on the right, outside of that yeah fuck all. Once again, is Rodri in the team to do that or is that a job for Foden, KDB, Aguero, Jesus, Sterling and do on?

As I said, a defensive midfielder being blamed for a 1-1 against West Brom. A lot bigger issues in this team than Rodri.
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genuinely don’t recall a sterling header, the Aguero one wasn’t a great chance the only real good chance was the Gundogan header and he didn’t do much wrong there’s it was just a good save that’s the only standout chance we created all game against the worst defence in the league at home and he wasn’t playing in an advanced position.

You’re correct Rodri isn’t in the team to create a goal scoring chance, nobody is really saying that, but he is in the side to be a provider to the players that are in the side to create and he’s utterly woeful at it. We can’t really expect kdb,Foden etc to create something when they either have to come back practically in line with the defence to pick up the ball because players behind them can’t find them further up the pitch or they have to wait so long to get the ball in a position to create a chance that there’s now 10 men defending infront of them and 2 maybe 3 targets if they’re lucky.

That's where this side is struggling badly and that’s what rodri is supposed to be doing.

As somebody who clearly doesn’t see Rodri as a problem what do you attribute the creative problem to? Why have we gone from the greatest creative, attacking side the league has ever seen 2 years ago to a side that can’t create a decent chance until injury time against the worst defence in the league?

From that side we’ve lost silva who everyone claimed was on a fast downward spiral and Sane who was barely getting a look in at our peak, the only other significant difference is Rodri plays in place of Fernandinho...
 
oldius said:
People cannot have watched this match to single out Rodri negatively. He continually intercepted the ball and distributed it quickly and forwards. We dominated the match against a ten-manI defence and missed several chances. In this particular game, KDB, Cancelo, Mendy, and Sterling all performed poorly, much less ably than Rodri and made little of the possession that they had. Only if your mind has already been made up would you single Rodri out.
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What about the five times he shanked it into row Z with players in better positions? You’d think after the 3rd time he might realise it’s not his day from distance.

He was dross but so were all of them. Gundo played well but that’s about it.
 
markbmcfc said:
What about the five times he shanked it into row Z with players in better positions? You’d think after the 3rd time he might realise it’s not his day from distance.

He was dross but so were all of them. Gundo played well but that’s about it.
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He shot in to row Z five times?
 
oldius said:
People cannot have watched this match to single out Rodri negatively. He continually intercepted the ball and distributed it quickly and forwards. We dominated the match against a ten-man defence and missed several chances. In this particular game, KDB, Cancelo, Mendy, and Sterling all performed poorly, much less ably than Rodri and made little of the possession that they had. Only if your mind has already been made up would you single Rodri out.
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Ban-jani said:
He’d do alright for a top 10 side who are a little cautious, like Sheff Utd last season he’s perfect. For us, he’s meaningless and doesn’t really do anything 90% of games.
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I hope he can turn it around in his second season like others have but a third of a season in to that I’m still not convinced.

I think he’s in the team because of aerial duels because outside of that I don’t see anything he does better as a 6 than either Fernandinho or Gundogan, both of whom should arguably have been moved on a season ago anyway.
 
oldius said:
People cannot have watched this match to single out Rodri negatively. He continually intercepted the ball and distributed it quickly and forwards. We dominated the match against a ten-manI defence and missed several chances. In this particular game, KDB, Cancelo, Mendy, and Sterling all performed poorly, much less ably than Rodri and made little of the possession that they had. Only if your mind has already been made up would you single Rodri out.
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Rodri wins possession and he keeps possession. For a lot of sides this is enough, for ours it is not. We have 70% possession every game and the opposition aim to have 11 men behind the ball every time they lose the ball. It is imperative that the CDM in our side is able to get us moving and get us moving quickly. He can’t do it. Walking off with great pass completion stats isn’t enough.
 
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