82 | Rico Lewis - 2024/25

No I just replied on your post, I perfectly understood what you meant :D

Yep Pep's the issue and sometimes he does things like that, sometimes doesn't.
Like he played Mendy for 5 years and Phillips didn't even got a chance, but reality was that they both were disaster from the beginning and it's a mystery how Mendy kept going when his every appearance was like a God's punishment :D

Rico is a player that can be used when team is playing very well. Cause you have Rodri who covers everything and gives a luxury to worry less about defence as he cuts all the counters and attacks before they even reach our defenders, but in this situation, Rico shouldn't be playing this kind of matches. We are starting with -1 man and that bites us in the last 30 minutes.

Replacing Rodri is possible, when you have 11 above average players on all the positions and they do their job excellently. Otherwise we won't keep our level and that's what's happening right now. We are loosing and loosing.

This new CB kid as well. Great talent maybe, but right now playing him is a suicide. Today we played with 9-9.5 men against very difficult opponent and away game also. What was Pep thinking about ?

PS Yep Garcia also. And Pep played him against Lyon :D
Still traumatized by Garcia's performance in that game, The words Corn or Cornetto are trigger words for me at this point. Still working on it with my shrink, she says I'm getting better
 
I really like Rico but I’m not sure it’s working tactically.

Can’t play AM in possesion and then be expected to cover back to full-back. Recipe for disaster. He’s obviously being exploited aswell.

I don’t see him as a full-back personally.

I think we will be at our best when we return to a defence of: Gvardiol , Ake , Dias , Akanji , Stones with one of them inverting.

Walker isn’t good enough and Lewis isn’t either imo.
 
Some really harsh criticism of a young player on here. Posters only seem to want ready made world class players now.

Overall this season I think he’s really stepped up and has been good.
He’s been great. Personally feel we would be better returning to 4CB’s at the back as it’s costing us on transitions.
 
Some really harsh criticism of a young player on here. Posters only seem to want ready made world class players now.

Overall this season I think he’s really stepped up and has been good.
Midfield is not performing at the minute, he is part of that. It's unfair to ask him to do more at the moment. He is playing decently in a poor midfield. Hopefully he is learning quickly. We need all the help we can get.
 

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