82 | Rico Lewis - 2024/25

[OrigamiNinja]

Could he be a winger in the form of Bernardo who can come inside and ball play?

No.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

This.

For me, Lewis is more suited to a midfield role. His defensive skills currently aren't good enough.

O think that's fair. He's brilliant but could be another TAA unless his defensive game matures. Hopefully it's just a case of a bit of experience plus physically filling out a bit. By no means an expert opinion as I'm a fat old **** with two left feet.

 

[Bigga]

yup, thats why traore >>> lamine yamal, because he is faster. very sound logic you got there

Explain how you manage to conflate speed and technique?

This will be interesting to hear...

 

[Bigga]

So you didn’t see Walker v Traore, Lewis kept closer to Traore than Walker didi.

Do you know when a play comes on and they're 'not up to match speed'? You hear it quite often with subs, non??

So... what the exception here? And that's with age taken into account!

I remember Vinicius Jr tearing Walker a new one at the beginning of his encounter, cos he misjudged Vinny Jr's speed.

Not so much after that.

 

[David White]

Wow, some really unfair criticism of this lad. He’s fucking mustard.

19 years old, being asked to play in several positions in the same game by the best manager to ever grace game and there are people saying he’s out of his depth. Unbelievable.

Thought he did ok yesterday. Not his best game but he didn’t do too much wrong and he is still learning. He hesitated on the ball when he was in a race with the fastest player in the league and wasn’t strong enough when traore got in front of him. None of our defenders could keep pace with traore.

Rico will be a starter for years at City.

 

[Roachy]

Could he be a winger in the form of Bernardo who can come inside and ball play?

If you look at how our wide players use the ball now in relation to maintaining possession and pulling 2 or 3 opposing player towards them, then I would say no chance. His qualities as I see them are positional play and a quick pass and move technique. This is more attuned to a middle of the pitch player. His problem will be there is a lot of competition in that area.

 

[stonerblue]

looked way out of his depth today.

As for the prick sat behind me in the south stand shouting he wouldn't get in his Sunday league team…leg it!

No he didn't. He had his worst game of the season so far but he wasn't alone in that.

 

[blueparrot]

Do you know when a play comes on and they're 'not up to match speed'? You hear it quite often with subs, non??

So... what the exception here? And that's with age taken into account!

I remember Vinicius Jr tearing Walker a new one at the beginning of his encounter, cos he misjudged Vinny Jr's speed.

Not so much after that.

Age isn’t taken into account at all. Walker is either as quick as he was or he isn’t. Saying play Walker because he was quicker a year or two ago is just daft.Subs getting up to speed is with the game ,not in a straight foot race which 2 years ago Walker would have stayed with Traore. Lewis for most games is a better fit for the team than Walker, especially with Rodri out,and will probably start more.

 

[Craig]

Could he be a winger in the form of Bernardo who can come inside and ball play?

Don’t see the point. We’ve got proper wingers and if you want someone to largely just retain the ball out there(apart from Bernie) we’ve got Foden who will also get plenty of goals

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Like most of his team mates he had a mixed game today with a few mistakes and a few decent runs
However he needs to start scoring goals because otherwise he'll end up as a peripheral squad player.