17 | Kevin De Bruyne - 2023/24

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Good assist, but getting a G/A has been covering up his poor performances over the last few weeks. It's a bit of a conundrum for Pep.
 
He’s putting his body on the line for us at the moment. Obviously miles away from properly fit but still going out there and doing everything he can to get us over the line.
By his standards he was pretty dreadful tonight, but still came up with the key assist.
Hard to see him going into the Euros and playing through the summer.
 
roy.or.r said:
Wtf are you talking about? We literally don't win some of those matches without him. Once he returned, we had a complete change in our form for the better.
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He hasn't been good of late. I don't know how that's even debatable. He's a G/A machine, but he's been losing the ball for fun and isn't physically capable of pressing like he used to.
 
Jonas.shaffer said:
He hasn't been good of late. I don't know how that's even debatable. He's a G/A machine, but he's been losing the ball for fun and isn't physically capable of pressing like he used to.
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He's always lost the ball for fun, honestly. Physically he isn't what he once was, I think that's fairly obvious. But he still impacts games in a way that is very hard to replace (although Phil has stepped up massively in that regard this season)
 
FromPollockToSilva said:
He's always lost the ball for fun, honestly. Physically he isn't what he once was, I think that's fairly obvious. But he still impacts games in a way that is very hard to replace (although Phil has stepped up massively in that regard this season)
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He's lost it in the past more down to playing tough passes. Of late, he's just constantly getting caught on the ball.
 
Once again in the biggest moments he makes that assist look easy, which it is not. Perfect and on a plate for Erling.

Couldn't quite believe some of the match day posts...I want Kev on the pitch even at 70% - how the hell will we replace him 17 assist this year is phenomenal considering he is patched up. Get him fit in the summer and go again for the CL next season, we need him.
 
Jonas.shaffer said:
He's lost it in the past more down to playing tough passes. Of late, he's just constantly getting caught on the ball.
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He is being dispossessed sightly more often this season than last, statistically. But on the other hand, his average pass completion and number of unsafe touches are both better this season than last season, so in overall terms not much difference in how often he's losing possession of the ball

Still worth the trade-off for a goal or assist every 81 minutes in the league this season
 
He looks fucked and like Fulham game I though apart from his assist he was poor, once he went off Foden grew into the game more, if he cant recovwr from that ankle I’d put Grealish on the left nd Foden in the middle, if we get far enough ahead get him a cameo near the end.
 
Has now moved from 14/15 Yaya territory (which is where he's been for about three years now) into 15/16 Yaya territory, where his movements are clearly laboured and difficult, and he's losing possession a lot more, but he still manages to somehow find a moment of genius that swings the game one way or the other. What a player. If we win the title on Sunday he has to go down as the greatest City, and maybe the Premier League, have ever seen.
 
The thing he's really struggling with at the moment is the simple things, he was always good at keeping the ball when needed and using his body - it seemed like lack of sharpness but he's had a run of games. Maybe a good preseason will help, getting used to how his body is changing and making some small adjustments to his game to compensate.
 
He's not at the level he was at last season, which was insane. The same could be said of Haaland as well. But both of them suffered fairly significant injuries ("very", in Kevin's case). That's bound to affect players. A 70% De Bruyne and Haaland are still automatic picks though, in my opinion.*



*Other opinions are available.
 
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