What do you believe are his strengths and flaws?
Strengths:
On the right he’s good at positioning his body to make it hard for a defender to know whether he’s looking to play a pass inside with his left foot or take it up the line or into the box with his right foot.
On the right he was good at playing cut-back pass crosses.
He makes good runs, and does understand space in the box at the end of moves so he has a tap-in (that’s not having a dig at his tap-ins, it’s a genuine attribute).
When playing on instinct and if he doesn’t have to think about what he has to do, he can be really dangerous.
He used to lean back too much when shooting but has learnt to get his head and shoulders over the ball more.
On the left he was good at cutting inside to have a shot but now that’s snuffed out as defences just cover the space he wants to run into.
He used to be a good presser up high, that’s disappeared. He used to get back and help the full back out, that’s disappeared (and one thing people used to direct criticism at Sané for).
Flaws:
Some of the above that he used to have but doesn’t anymore.
He falls over far too much.
He’s got no trickery to get past players at all and a lot of the time just runs the ball into the legs of the defender and loses it or falls over.
His first touch of the ball when he’s running is appalling.
He hits the ball like it’s made of concrete.
Any time he has to think about what he’s doing he fucks it up.
He’s the worst player around when 1v1 with the ’keeper.
He’s so weak on his left foot with general play that when good defenders show him onto his left foot on the left wing (like WanBissaka), he may as well sit on the floor for 90 minutes, he’d be as effective.
All of the things he’s good on, on the right, he can’t do on the left.
