#7 | Raheem Sterling - 2021/22 Performances

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Must be tough for him playing with his back to goal. He put a shift in though love when he tried to out muscle van dijk. I'm backing you raheem he just needs a bit of luck to get going
 
FromPollockToSilva said:
He wants to run in behind, and the defenders have to deal with that. With Foden or Grealish there, they always want to come short to the ball and Van Dijk and Matip were able to push up at will with zero threat in behind.

Even though we had more control in the first half, we had more of an actual threat when he came on because he creates space with his running
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Correct apart from you seem to have fallen for the myth amongst the so called England experts in the summer that Foden can’t run in behind. He can and did yesterday. Sterling was much better yesterday because as you say there was space for him to run in behind and use his pace. The problem for him is the vast majority of teams don’t leave any space when playing us.
 
What gets me with any player with what they are weak at why don’t they practice at if and clear there mind in a certain situation what you going to do! Like you receive the ball running on to goal be in a one track mind that you going to run through shoot across the goal in the corner and practice that daily!
 
Craig said:
Correct apart from you seem to have fallen for the myth amongst the so called England experts in the summer that Foden can’t run in behind. He can and did yesterday. Sterling was much better yesterday because as you say there was space for him to run in behind and use his pace. The problem for him is the vast majority of teams don’t leave any space when playing us.
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Foden runs in behind from wide positions, absolutely. He wasn’t offering that run much through the middle though, and Grealish certainly wasn’t
 
I don’t see how raz gets back into this team. Foden, Grealish & Jesus all ahead of him.

something must be going on in his personal life his drop in form & confidence is ridiculous. Makes no sense
 
SleepingBlueTiger said:
Despite all the criticism and him being off-form he is still the best player in our team in making runs. We create more openings with him in the team, even if we waste them.
Once he gets a bit of confidence and form back he'll be playing a lot of minutes simply due to the fact we have no one else who can do what he does.
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Nice sentiment
 
Blu1 said:
I don’t see how raz gets back into this team. Foden, Grealish & Jesus all ahead of him.

something must be going on in his personal life his drop in form & confidence is ridiculous. Makes no sense
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I'm not sure that's necessarily true. He was in a rich vein of form scoring. But talent wise, Foden Grealish and Gabby were always more talented with the ball.

I can see him winning the #9 job though. He presses and has tremendous speed. All he needs is a little goalscoring patch and he'll be off to the races.
 
He was clear through and I expected Alisson to confuse him into some nonsense but he just slowed up. It was truly strange. He has always had his speed but at this point even that seems to have deserted him. I truly appreciate what he’s done here. I wish he’d play on the right again and return to basics of just using his pace and strong foot to create. He isn’t two footed enough on this kind of form to even hope to be really dangerous. Playing him centrally isn’t building confidence— he just needs to simplify everything right now and get back to just being hard to mark
 
Getting linked to barca, but all our players were linked to barca last summer and we saw how that turned out. That said if he hits the 18 month point on the contract people will likely start making moves.
 
if he doesnt renew i can see loan to barca with mandatory buy happening since hes only linked with barca
 
sd33 said:
if he doesnt renew i can see loan to barca with mandatory buy happening since hes only linked with barca
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Perhaps, I remember him being interviewed on the BBC in his prime, and him more or less saying that he would like to try Spain in his career? Like Mahrez, when he's in top form he's very dangerous, but some players don't thrive from greater competition and reduced playing time.
 
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