Imo you are correct. Some are like DM writers, blinkered with their negative narrative prepared pre-match ready to be spat out regardless of what happens in a game. As a coach I always found that using what strengths a player had to the benefit of the squad while quietly trying to improve on the weakness of the individual always proved best.I remember Gerard Houllier talking about players and how he looked at their strengths and what they could give the team, rather than focus on what they were not good at.
In my opinion, Rodri is very skilled at breaking opponent attacks with interceptions. He is strong on the ball, retains possession well and is an accurate passer, short and long, often making key passes through the lines. Against that he has slow recovery pace.
Some on here focus on players weaknesses and ignore everything they bring. It only happens with certain players and becomes folklore but anyone watching the Arsenal game and calling Rodri's performance poor, or even less than good, watches a different game to me.
Imo, he also failed to read a number of situations which should be food & drink to a top quality def mid. And lost the ball in danger area.
He had 3 cbs behind him, Cancelo dropping in plus Bernardo often even turning up in his own box.
Even Pogba could have played there.
I love Fernandinho as a player but there is not a player in the squad who has been needlessly booked more often than he has, and he was a lot more experienced than Rodri when he joined us.Wouldn’t say he had a bad game but it wasn’t any better than mediocre. At least 3 occasions I remember somebody almost walking past him embarrassingly easily. Not only does he not have the pace necessary for his role, he doesn’t make it difficult to get around him either and he’s too willing to throw his freebie foul away early and get booked when it’s not worth it. Fernandinho knows when it’s worth taking a booking and when he needs to keep it in his back pocket as an option later.
His passing was more progressive than usual today to his credit but that was mainly down to him often dropping into centre back to receive the ball with cancelo moving forward so he didn’t have the backwards pass unless he went back to Ederson. Still sooner have Gundogan in there if it’s not Fernandinho as he isn’t any worse defensively than Rodri but at least his first thought is a forward pass.
I have to say I'm really getting sick of you, @PannickAtTheDisco and @SWP's back just saying the same recycled shit in this thread every 3 days, and I can't believe I'm the only one.
Yes, we get it, he's not Fernandinho and you don't like him.
If you're going to spam this thread with negative comments at least try and come up with something new, instead of the same shite over and over.
Yeah you accused me of saying hewas shit, in the past & I asked you to prove it, but you didn't, because I didn't, because I think he's a top player.
I don't thik he's the right man for us & we could be miles better with the right man.
And just who the fuck do you think you are, censoring opinons, apart from yours ?
Imo, he also failed to read a number of situations which should be food & drink to a top quality def mid. And lost the ball in danger area.
He had 3 cbs behind him, Cancelo dropping in plus Bernardo often even turning up in his own box.
Even Pogba could have played there.
Sorry @ NK but the last bit really isn't true.
Is that really possible ? Do you watch the game to count the errors he might make to prove to us that he is as bad as you like to think.If he has more than one job, he's much worse than I thought.
You need to look up what censoring means, because asking someone to not just repetitively say the same thing is not censoring.
Secondly, read again (for the first time maybe?) because I didn't say you said he was shit, I said you were repeating the same old shit.
Is that really possible ? Do you watch the game to count the errors he might make to prove to us that he is as bad as you like to think.