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He’s probably a bit tired, but give him a couple of days rest and he’ll be good to go.
45 | Abdukodir Khusanov - 2024/25
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They are very different players I agree and Khus is clearly the more physically strong and fast, equally last week we created more and supported the attack better , for which Ricos passing, positioning and ball carrying had something to do.
I am gonna sound like a Lewis hater now but isn’t he always out of position? As we saw in the first game against Madrid? How his opponent is always far away from him? Same with ball carrying. He moves like 5 meters and then passes it sideways.
Once he got his distances right to Vinicius, Vinicius got nothing from him. I remember in the 4-0 the absolute wankathon when Vinicius tried to run Walker and Walker out paved him. This lad started inviting it last night once he got his distances right and was at what looked like no more than a 3/4 pace jog to out pace Vinicius.
Was skinned a couple of times very early, but adapted and learnt from that. I thought he was a bit unlucky with the second, he was hung out to dry and very nearly stopped that goal. As his confidence grew, he looked a real player.
Was skinned a couple of times very early, but adapted and learnt from that. I thought he was a bit unlucky with the second, he was hung out to dry and very nearly stopped that goal. As his confidence grew, he looked a real player.
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He done alright, he wasn't as good as made out on here and most of our problems came down that side and understandably so. He wasn't terrible and certainly didn't look out of place but he was on a hiding to nothing. There is a good, tidy player there though.
No he wasn't, I was sittting on the halfway line level 3 at the front with a very good view of the shape. Our back five was essentially playing as a two with Dias and Ake at the back and Stones in front with Gvardiol and Akanji and then Rico relatively tucked in.
At times he carried well and created openings including for Fodens penalty.
None of this is meant to critical of Khus but Rico had a very similar game in overall quality.
Neither perfect, both a bit let down by their team mates.
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Rico is a RB . Khusanov never played there in his career . His first time away to Real Madrid . With 2 of the best players in the world doubling up . With his right winger nowhere to be seen . Just for context .
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Looking at that video, the moment at the start where vinicius gets to the byline is actually top defending, he sees dias is behind him to block the cross so shifts his body shape to stop the cut inside knowing he was covered if he went on the outside. Yet these same cunts will say with a straight face Alexander Arnold is the best full back in the League!
Most of Rico's development was as a midfielder. I am not trying to compare them but the criticism of them .
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Rico offers different things to the team and that is fine. He doesn't have the physical gifts to cope with players like Vini Jr or Dembele at the moment. Be good to have the option of Kush playing there if we need to lock the right hand side down and Rico against sides who are going to sit back and congest the space we can play in as he excels popping up in pockets.
I feel really sorry for Rico this year. He started off this season superbly but has lost form and confidence due to having too much responsibility placed on his young shoulders, often being tasked with fulfilling two roles at once in a struggling side. AK being here will do him the world of good as he can be taken out of the firing line in games like Madrid away in the short term instead of being thrown to the wolves.
The Media can see what a good player the assassin is and what his potential is over the coming seasons, and are trying to curtail his career before he develops into a genuine star for City it's as simple as that .
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He was left to deal with the best winger in the world completely on his own as we used to do with Kyle walker at his peak and he pocketed him pretty much exactly the same as walker did many times over.
Real madrid had a field day with our setup, they were completely free to play exactly how they wanted and we played into their hands yet Vinicius barely had an impact. Mbappe dominated and even rodrygo was substantially more influential but Vinicius remained on the periphery of the game because he couldn't escape khusanov. You won't see a better handling of him all season.
Real madrid had a field day with our setup, they were completely free to play exactly how they wanted and we played into their hands yet Vinicius barely had an impact. Mbappe dominated and even rodrygo was substantially more influential but Vinicius remained on the periphery of the game because he couldn't escape khusanov. You won't see a better handling of him all season.
How do you figure that? First goal lump over the top, left sided ce tre half at fault, second goal people lose runners he’s left isolated two on one.
3rd goal no pressure from the left, wanders in and buried it.
McAtee and O'reilly sat for a couple of months getting zero minutes of PL football, McAtee has had more minutes since then but O'reilly is still not getting any, and they can't learn anything if they never play.
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keown wouldve be proud of them two last night digging out a young lad
This is Madrid's heatmap - suggests they had more luck getting down our left side.
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