#16 | Rodri - 2020/21 Performances

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Looks better when he's on his own but still he's so slow.

No idea what the club was doing when scouting him.
 
The lad gives everything he’s got that’s clear BUT he’s just not the level we need. His lack of pace is chronic but he does not have any outstanding attributes. Would he start for our rivals?
 
Wonderful player, happy we have him.

He wasn't good yesterday but so weren't leaders like Walker, Sterling and Kevin. Why single him out?

Those thinking Fernadinho didn't have average games including against Liverpool are good at forgetting. Dinho wasn't great when we lost 4:3 and 3:0 at Anfield back in 2018. Dinho wasn't great either when we lost 1:0 from Spurs in 2019, actually he lost the ball for their goal.

Fabinho has been very average since his injury last December, he isn't doing better than Rodri over the last 10 months, but some fans are too busy slating Rodri to be able to notice it. Liverpool have conceded more goals than us this calendar year and Fabinho has been part of their shaky defence.
 
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Rodri really does not suit our style - when we're on the defensive and we win the ball back and work it out to him, he's too slow in the transition and we often miss opportunities to break. When we're being countered he's too slow getting back - see the goal we conceded against Porto. When we're on the offensive he just slows down our attacks so much that we lose our rhythm of fast, incisive passing. It isn't like he offers anything from a creative perspective to compensate for these inadequacies - nearly every pass is sideways or backwards. His style is more suited to the slow methodical build-up of the Spanish leagues, we would have been much better off with Ndombele.
 
alexmcity said:
Wonderful player, happy we have him.

He wasn't good yesterday but so weren't leaders like Walker, Sterling and Kevin. Why single him out?

Those thinking Fernadinho didn't have average games including against Liverpool are good at forgetting. Dinho wasn't great when we lost 4:3 and 3:0 at Anfield back in 2018. Dinho wasn't great either when we lost 1:0 from Spurs in 2019, actually he lost the ball for their goal.

Fabinho has been very average since his injury last December, he isn't doing better than Rodri over the last 10 months, but some fans are too busy slating Rodri to be able to notice it. Liverpool have conceded more goals than us this calendar year and Fabinho has been part of their shaky defence.
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Dinho was twice the player Rodri could ever be so not sure what use pointing out he had some bad games is. He’s a drop off in standard to what we had just like Mahrez etc. No surprise the team has also dropped off so badly
 
Craig said:
Dinho was twice the player Rodri could ever be so not sure what use pointing out he had some bad games is. He’s a drop off in standard to what we had just like Mahrez etc. No surprise the team has also dropped off so badly
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Good to know that you can see the future, I'll admit I can't.

Note, though, that Fernandinho was worse than Rodri back in 16/17 to the extent that Pep had to play Toure at DM. At 24, Fernandinho was a nobody in an obscure league. I'm sure you can see what the future holds, shame you can't remember the past though.
 
alexmcity said:
Good to know that you can see the future, I'll admit I can't.

Note, though, that Fernandinho was worse than Rodri back in 16/17 to the extent that Pep had to play Toure at DM. At 24, Fernandinho was a nobody in an obscure league. I'm sure you can see what the future holds, shame you can't remember the past though.
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Well, if you want to be pedantic and continue talking bollocks I'll let you crack on. I'm not seeing into the future though I'm taking a wild guess that a 24 year old with absolutely no pace whatsoever is not going to suddenly gain some. Also he'll never have the all round game that truly world class midfielder like Dinho had.
 
I have not found a player as frustrating for years. 60 million plus. Ouch.
 
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