#16 | Rodri - 2020/21 Performances

[FromPollockToSilva]

he made 1 successful tackle. West Ham constantly lobbed the ball over his head and he wasn't there to clean up the second ball or go 2-on-1 with the CB for it like Dinho used to do, West Ham ran through on the counter whenever they felt like it. The end.

Not necessarily commenting on Rodri’s performance, but West Ham had one attempt on goal from a counterattacking situation. It wasn’t really an issue for us

 

[Saddleworth2]

You talk about "an understanding of football" as if you know more than others. But you prove the opposite. You say watch "when Fernandinho was at the top of his game", when was that, he came to City as an experienced player in 2013 at 28 years old, was criticsed by some and grew into the club. He played with a different team. You now want to compare a 24 year old, early in his 2nd season, settling into a team in transition, struggling with injuries with Fernandinho at his peak. You may be gifted with "an understanding of football" but you seem to have little understanding of reality.

Not sure how to respond to that as you haven’t really said anything.
Rodri has had more than enough time to settle and I repeat, too slow of thought and action with limited defensive capability and passing range. My only qualification to comment is playing the game to a reasonable level and watching avidly for the last 50 years or so. Not sure what your reality is but mine is that we have gone backwards markedly and I see Rodri as one of the several reasons for that.

 

[samarasra]

whatever. Sterling alone had 2 simple chances to score and there were at least 3 tap-ins if someone had made the proper attacking movements in the box, so it wouldn't have ended up too differently and that's with a poor performance. Add Foden and Torres in from the start and it's a different story today.

"whatever", great memories of my teenage daughters' stock response when they were too lazy to come up with a reasoned response, fortunately they grew up. What happened to your critique of Rodri, you now seem to have switched the blame to Sterling and missed tap-ins. That is a different story,

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

"whatever", great memories of my teenage daughters' stock response when the were too lazy to come up with a reasoned response, fortunately they grew up. What happened to your critique of Rodri, you now seem to have switched the blame to Sterling and missed tap-ins. That is a different story,

He was poor again. I was pointing out that we still created a few easy chances to win comfortably so if we'd have picked a better, more balanced side we'll have created more and the scoreline would have been much more akin to prior seasons. But just look at the position Gundogan was taking up today compared to when he played with Fern a couple of years ago in the same fixture to see the difference in trust, Rodri's had some form of babysitter in most games this season because he's such a liability.

 

[Dazzle84]

We want him to be fernandinho - he isn't but then who is in world football right now? He literally had everything.

Rodri isn't right for us. Not a bad player but not right for us. Gundogan playing deep is twice the player

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Not necessarily commenting on Rodri’s performance, but West Ham had one attempt on goal from a counterattacking situation. It wasn’t really an issue for us

and how many times did Bowen get away, Antonio run down the other end of the pitch with the ball with just a CB in tow because it wasn't snuffed out early enough? Plenty. At our best, we recover a much fairer share of those earlier up the pitch, catch West Ham trying to break and slightly out of shape, go for a quick transition and find the space to kill them. These days we either end up in our box, or in our box and then at the halfway line taking a kick-off, or on the rare occasion we win it back dawdling on it and letting the opposition get back in shape.

 

[EdersonsSmiley]

Glad you saw the same game I saw. If you notice their is a pattern here of a (smallish) group of posters who have "issues" with Rodri, Garcia, Zinchenko and recently Cancelo (check out the posts on their performance threads), same names keep popping up with illogical negative posts to "prove" whatever narrative is flavour of the day. Barely a word about Dias giving the ball away v Porto, or Sergio giving it away today for West Ham's goal, it was all due to Rodri or Garcia or Cancelo according to the experts, defying what the eye can see.

Oh without a doubt there are about 10 posters who's first thought after a game is to criticise one of the following players.

Mendy
Gundogan
Rodri
Mahrez
Garcia

Without fail the first post they make is slating these either with a tiny thing they did wrong, repeating the usual 'hes slow/lazy/soft" they have posted 50 times already or inventing an issue that wasn't even their.

Aguero, Sterling and Bernardo have all been at best 5/10s in the last few games but these posters don't give any comment and just go at the above players as nauseum.

I actual wonder if they enjoy watching football as they are so negative all the time. A lot of them have thousands of posts so I wonder if it was the same a couple of seasons ago when we were steamrolling everyone.

I imagine it was but the players were probably Stones, Otamendi, Mendy and Jesus.

 

[Ashleymcduff]

Oh without a doubt there are about 10 posters who's first thought after a game is to criticise one of the following players.

Mendy
Gundogan
Rodri
Mahrez
Garcia

Without fail the first post they make is slating these either with a tiny thing they did wrong, repeating the usual 'hes slow/lazy/soft" they have posted 50 times already or inventing an issue that wasn't even their.

Aguero, Sterling and Bernardo have all been at best 5/10s in the last few games but these posters don't give any comment and just go at the above players as nauseum.

I actual wonder if they enjoy watching football as they are so negative all the time. A lot of them have thousands of posts so I wonder if it was the same a couple of seasons ago when we were steamrolling everyone.

I imagine it was but the players were probably Stones, Otamendi, Mendy and Jesus.

200% agree Kevin gets a free ride when he’s shite as well

 

[samarasra]

Because he’s an easy target. Teams can’t ‘target’ KDB because he’s too good

I know Rodgers comes up with some weird stuff but not this. So, you say,to stop City playing their preferred game he used his players to target Rodri, because he was "an easy target".
You don't waste valuable resources to target an "easy target" when you are trying to disrupt an opponents game plan, you target the one/ones trying to put the game plan into action, do you not understand what Vardy meant, they wanted to upset the passing and momentum of the game by blocking off the focal point, so did Porto and West Ham today. Give some credit to opponents, it's awful to watch but it is working, with a full squad hopefully we can find a solution.

 

[Paladin]

Oh without a doubt there are about 10 posters who's first thought after a game is to criticise one of the following players.

It's a bit weird that you two make the same spelling mistake. Not brothers by any chance? Or the same person?