#16 | Rodri - 2020/21 Performances

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ninjamonkey said:
I’d suggest you didn’t watch Rodri closely enough or at all if you don’t see a huge huge problem with him.

How can the front three do anything when we can’t get the ball to them? They’re entire involvement is receiving the ball back to goal with two defenders around them and passing it back to where it came from because we cannot build play, move opponents around and start creating space for them to operate in. Why can’t we do that? Rodri.

The guy refuses to open himself up for a pass unless he’s alongside the back 4 which makes him literally pointless in the build up as the opposition aren’t even pressing our defenders. we need him to receive the ball ahead of their front line so he can invite the midfield on to him which then opens up spaces for our forward midfielders or wingers to move into vacated space and receive the ball, then they can turn and create chances from there, that’s how all of our play for the last 4 years has started. We’ve not seen any of that all season because Rodri has regressed further from an already mediocre at best level and opposition know if you cut out the ball to Rodri who will help by standing himself right behind a player then we cannot create anything.

It’s such a school yard view to say we’re not scoring enough, it must be the forwards fault, just like blaming the defence for every goal we concede when they’re left ruthlessly exposed is stupid, which again has Rodri at the heart of the problem.

Go back and listen to Jamie Vardy’s post match interview when they battered us, he even admitted their plan was to stop Rodri getting on the ball they just probably didn’t expect Rodri to help them do that so easily.

He’s shit, not fit for purpose in any way, his best attributes are his physicality/aerial ability which might have been useful 5 years ago when every team thought the way to get at us was to rough us up and play high balls but there’s nobody in the league that does that anymore other than Burnley and it’s no surprise Rodri’s best games come against them. and then his second best attribute is his shooting ability which is redundant as a holding midfielder and doesn’t say much about the qualities we need him to have.

I’m not a huge Declan Rice fan, I think he’s competent but not much more yet he looked 3-4 levels above Rodri today in a much poorer side.
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I more or less agree with the lot. Although I’m not too keen on Declan Rice but we can leave that for the Transfer Forum

Rodders is a fundamental problem. No getting away from it
 
Watch this lad closely: HE HIDES!

He hides in spaces or seems to purposely trot next to their players so he can’t be passed the ball.

After watching Yaya and Fernandinho for so long - two players who never once in a game stopped running into spaces to be passed the ball in - and now watching this lad... he’s fucking boring to watch, involved in the game so little that you wouldn’t miss him if we took him off for no sub.

I know it’s Hallowe’en next week, but this lad does a ghost impression every week.

His position is so important in our team to start passing moves off in midfield after receiving the ball from the back five, but he does fuck all.

Get Gundo in his position and play Foden where Gundo has been.
 
went from 1.5 touches per pass in the 1st half to 1.1 in the 2nd half. The 2nd half is the level it should be in the whole game, the ball has to come through him as quickly as possible so it's not just on him at all, but we weren't brilliant in either half but he clearly stepped up his tempo and that's what, given his other key weaknesses, is needed for him to be useful.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Watch this lad closely: HE HIDES!

He hides in spaces or seems to purposely trot next to their players so he can’t be passed the ball.

After watching Yaya and Fernandinho for so long - two players who never once in a game stopped running into spaces to be passed the ball in - and now watching this lad... he’s fucking boring to watch, involved in the game so little that you wouldn’t miss him if we took him off for no sub.

I know it’s Hallowe’en next week, but this lad does a ghost impression every week.

His position is so important in our team to start passing moves off in midfield after receiving the ball from the back five, but he does fuck all.

Get Gundo in his position and play Foden where Gundo has been.
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Been saying it for weeks mate. You are spot on. Constantly stands behind the opponent who is pressing the ball carrier. Impossible to get a pass off to him. He does it constantly. I'm no fan of Gundo but he would make a better fist than Rodri. For me, he is the main reason why we have gotten this slow and predictable passes backwards and sideways at snail pace when he does have the ball. Maybe he has a fitness problem because the deterioration is stark this season.
 
ninjamonkey said:
I’d suggest you didn’t watch Rodri closely enough or at all if you don’t see a huge huge problem with him.

How can the front three do anything when we can’t get the ball to them? They’re entire involvement is receiving the ball back to goal with two defenders around them and passing it back to where it came from because we cannot build play, move opponents around and start creating space for them to operate in. Why can’t we do that? Rodri.

The guy refuses to open himself up for a pass unless he’s alongside the back 4 which makes him literally pointless in the build up as the opposition aren’t even pressing our defenders. we need him to receive the ball ahead of their front line so he can invite the midfield on to him which then opens up spaces for our forward midfielders or wingers to move into vacated space and receive the ball, then they can turn and create chances from there, that’s how all of our play for the last 4 years has started. We’ve not seen any of that all season because Rodri has regressed further from an already mediocre at best level and opposition know if you cut out the ball to Rodri who will help by standing himself right behind a player then we cannot create anything.

It’s such a school yard view to say we’re not scoring enough, it must be the forwards fault, just like blaming the defence for every goal we concede when they’re left ruthlessly exposed is stupid, which again has Rodri at the heart of the problem.

Go back and listen to Jamie Vardy’s post match interview when they battered us, he even admitted their plan was to stop Rodri getting on the ball they just probably didn’t expect Rodri to help them do that so easily.

He’s shit, not fit for purpose in any way, his best attributes are his physicality/aerial ability which might have been useful 5 years ago when every team thought the way to get at us was to rough us up and play high balls but there’s nobody in the league that does that anymore other than Burnley and it’s no surprise Rodri’s best games come against them. and then his second best attribute is his shooting ability which is redundant as a holding midfielder and doesn’t say much about the qualities we need him to have.

I’m not a huge Declan Rice fan, I think he’s competent but not much more yet he looked 3-4 levels above Rodri today in a much poorer side.
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This is so true. Its at the heart of our problems. Been saying it all season. We cannot judge our forwards or our back line until we have fixed this and I cannot see us doing that unless he completely re-imagines how he plays. Would far rather see Doyle given a shot.
 
Blue Hefner said:
I more or less agree with the lot. Although I’m not too keen on Declan Rice but we can leave that for the Transfer Forum

Rodders is a fundamental problem. No getting away from it
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If Rodri is shit why would Leicester specifically target him?

Surely if he's as bad as you say they would want him to have as much as the ball as possible.

Perhaps professional football managers know what he offers to the team?
 
EdersonsSmiley said:
If Rodri is shit why would Leicester specifically target him?

Surely if he's as bad as you say they would want him to have as much as the ball as possible.

Perhaps professional football managers know what he offers to the team?
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they targeted him as they knew he was / is a weak link??
 
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