#5 | John Stones - 2021/22 Performances

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yeseye said:
View attachment 40628Absolutely ridiculous by Stones to back away here and pass back to Steffan when there is a easy pass to Cancelo to his right!
What is it with players these days afraid to pass it forward ?
It’s not rugby ffs!
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Because just out of shot is Luis Diaz quickly closing that option down. As soon as he makes the pass to cancelo there's nowhere from him to go, he would be under intense pressure on the half turn back to goal and no options. From there he has to either dribble past a player and seriously risk losing it in our own third, aimlessly go long across the pitch which inevitably hands them back possession or go back to the keeper with Salah and Mane even closer to him who will close the angles and force steffen to punt it. What stones did was absolutely fine, he can't expect the keeper to kill a ball dead when he clearly has to sweep it to the left and release.
 
Elegance personified. I hope Dias being back doesn’t automatically shift Stones to the subs bench for the foreseeable again.
 
He's looking like he might be our only option at right back for the first leg of the CL semi-final.

So even if it was just a really minor twinge, he absolutely had to come off. No point risking him in a match where we had cover.
 
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