21 | Sergio Gomez - 2022/23 Performances

[aguero93:20]

Should have kept Zinchenko.

Yep

 

[blueparrot]

Should have kept Zinchenko.

We would have, Zinchenko didn’t want to keep us.

 

[Goater=Legend]

If he can't play against Southampton in the cup i can't think of another time he'll play this season tbh.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

We would have, Zinchenko didn’t want to keep us.

How much truth is there to that.
I think it would have taken very little persuasion to have kept him.

 

[dhruvblue]

And he'll still end up playing more than Gomez will.

Gimez is not cause of our problems. Pep decided to sign him. He is young and rash doesn't mean he can't improve. People have already made decision that he is shit. Hell for young player like him, benefit of first season is also not given

 

[WallyA]

Think he'd be interesting to try in the FA cup in an LCM position against Chelsea.

Let Cancelo play LB, and let Gomez make left half space runs to whip crosses in like KdB does in the RCM spot.

 

[Pelegrinni]

I think Gomez will come good. He just needs to learn the inverted FB role very well.

 

[domalino]

Feel a bit sorry for him as he’s clearly trying hard but he just isn’t anywhere near good enough. It’s clear Pep knows this too - it hasn’t taken long for Gomez to just be ignored. Gomez isn’t to blame for anything, but the club are. How can they decide he’s the man to replace Zinchenko, who in my opinion is absolutely world class as an inverted full back coming into midfield. And I mean that, world class at it. His build up, positional awareness, his passing, his tempo, everything is unreal. Selling him I’ve no problem with as he wanted to go, but how can we think Gomez was the answer? We’re now having to play centre backs at full back way more often than we ought to be.

In Zinchenko's first season he played 17 minutes of league football in the first 23 league games.

Up until Delph got injured and there was literally no one else to play LB, He'd been limited to a couple of league cup matches and an FA Cup game vs Burnley's reserves.

In his second season in the squad, he played 3 league games of the first 27.

People are pretending Zinchenko walked into the squad and was our starting LB. Pep didn't even want him in his first season, then used him as a last resort because of injury, then gradually over 2 years of training he developed into a player good enough to start for us.

Gomez has already started 4 CL games, played really well in the derby, played vs. Chelsea in the league cup, and I'm sure he'll get some time in the FA Cup this month.

 

[W11Nchenko]

Should have kept Zinchenko.

at least we didn't sign cucurella

 

[fynner87]

Pretty decent today so far! Actually has quite a bit of pace