#17 | Kevin De Bruyne - 2021/22 Performances

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Didn’t feel like he was on the pitch last night

 

[supercity88]

He turned back the clock against Liverpool, he was outstanding and in the Madrid first leg, but last night he looked a shadow of himself again, that's the worry, the inconsistency.

A lot of our players can look poor after being rested for a game. They are used to playing every few days. Kev looked like a man who had thought about that match all week and couldn't get up to speed. Touch was poor and so was his passing.

Different circumstances but Gundogan came on and within a few moments had sliced them apart and got Bernie at them which led to the goal.

Kev just needed to run the game for us again and we may well have been out of sight.

He isn't a concern though, has turned it on in lots of games this season. Generally there's not a lot ahead of him for him to aim at. He need a striker ahead of him. Switching Foden for Gabby made his running option ahead of him more difficult. Foden prefers it to feet. It was an odd switch from Pep.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

He is exhausted and it's not just him. We used to have multiple options on the bench which gave us the chance to rotate the team comfortably, now we just have a reliable first team and that's it! We spent a lot of money on one player when we could have used that to bring in at least 2 new quality players like what the dippers did with Jota and Diaz.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

How does he look more tired after a rest? He was kept fresh for this game, there’s no way he should be failing to make the end of it. Very strange.

 

[Kinkladze 1]

Still our best player. Seems to be carrying extra weight round his midriff these days. Another year slips by. His window for winning the CL is slowly closing. It’d be criminal if he doesn’t get one. Next year….

 

[mancityscot]

Colossus of a player, but stunk the place out last night. Worst performance i can remember from him in a city shirt.

 

[skillman]

How does he look more tired after a rest? He was kept fresh for this game, there’s no way he should be failing to make the end of it. Very strange.

Oddly I think he’s one of those players which needs to be playing games to stay sharp, rests do him no favours. Pep seems to know that too given how many dead rubbers he’s played him in and how many times he’s kept on when a game is won.

 

[Deleted member 81382]

Wasn't great but he's been carrying us for weeks so he was bound to have an off day at some point.

 

[Kadour75]

I called it, same old same old, his relentless game time in PL was meant to come back and bite us toward the end of season. Pep should have rested him more often.

 

[Claytop]

Said all the right things pre match but unfortunately didn't show up on the night.