#5 | John Stones - 2021/22 Performances

[Deleted member 77198]

I agree with what your saying about yesterday’s game in terms of passing, but I think your second point is a complete over reaction. It was one game, he’s been brilliant for a while now.

He’s been our best player over the last month.

 

[FantasyIreland]

He’s been our best player over the last month.

Unrivalled,get Dias back alongside him and we will have the best pairing in Europe and a much missed foundation for the rest of our team.

 

[bluenova]

Had less clue on the ball today then at any time I’ve seen him. Received the ball from the keeper, hold the ball until the press is close, play it back to the keeper who is now under pressure, repeat.

Need his head on straight soon or we will drop to 4th choice now Ake has settled and Diaz is back.

I thought this was the point to playing the way we do?

With pressing teams surely you want to draw them on, so you can play past them, or draw them to the where the ball was rather than where you're playing it? All our player do it all the time.

 

[SWP's back]

I thought this was the point to playing the way we do?

With pressing teams surely you want to draw them on, so you can play past them, or draw them to the where the ball was rather than where you're playing it? All our player do it all the time.

It is, when your keeper can play football with his feet, but when he does it with Steffen then it’s suicidal. He continued to do it after their second also.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

It is, when your keeper can play football with his feet, but when he does it with Steffen then it’s suicidal. He continued to do it after their second also.

We can't change the whole game plan because one player is shitting the bed whenever the ball comes near him. Stones isn't doing anything wrong by doing what he's supposed to do on the ball.

 

[bluenova]

It is, when your keeper can play football with his feet, but when he does it with Steffen then it’s suicidal. He continued to do it after their second also.

That second was awful, but it's not likely it was going to happen twice. We'd never change the way we play just because of one mistake - and we didn't do too badly in the second half. It's not like we had the height advantage to kick long every time.

 

[SWP's back]

We can't change the whole game plan because one player is shitting the bed whenever the ball comes near him. Stones isn't doing anything wrong by doing what he's supposed to do on the ball.

Disagree, there were often other passes on but Stones didn’t have the minerals to find them yesterday. This is probably the first time I’ve criticised Stones but yesterday his passing was wank. We lost the ball 3 times from his first 4 passes.

 

[B\connellblue]

Thought he was outstanding yesterday to be fair. Has a bit about him too.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Disagree, there were often other passes on but Stones didn’t have the minerals to find them yesterday. This is probably the first time I’ve criticised Stones but yesterday his passing was wank. We lost the ball 3 times from his first 4 passes.

the whole team was poor at passing to be fair. Overall thought stones was played alright.

 

[ninjamonkey]

He was very very good yesterday only marginally behind Ake. Criticism in here is aimed completely at the wrong people imo. Our centre backs had no options yesterday because our forward line did fuck all to offer either a short pass or long pass. Can't blame them for giving it away when there's zero options. Our back 4 and 2 holding midfielders actually did a very good job of keeping the ball but was repeatedly given no options ahead of them and against a Liverpool press it's inevitable the ball will be lost eventually. they should be praised for keeping hold of it as long as they did waiting for our attackers to move. Liverpool cut the correct angles off knowing full well we don't have a keeper that can negate it all by clipping 40 yard balls with pinpoint accuracy. The closed off the right channels and forced us into corners because we had nothing from our front 4 other than an occasional long diagonal to the right