Castiel said:
edgecroft said:
I''m getting that impression from watching him play, he seems to be out of position off in laalaa land a good deal of the time.
I guess we'll see today how he does against Napoli's front 3. I expect that it won't be pretty. If he does great, then I'll start to change my mind about him.
Well you obviously don't watch him play enough. Luiz is a ball-playing centerback like Hummels or Pique. Not a traditional English centerback. In our 433, when we're in possession, a centerback is the extra man, which gives him licence to come forward leaving the anchor of the midfield 3 (Romeu or Mikel) to plug the gap and recirculate the play. Luiz does this job exceptionally, and the stats (and Chelsea fans observations) suggest as much. He's even better at this than Carvalho was, but Carvalho was a far more accomplished deep defender. I just did a quick check on our forum MoTM threads and Luiz is second only to Mata on most awards so far.
OK castiel, I watched him again, and again he tended to just stand still looking around, he was often 20 yards upfield when Napoli were attacking, and he gifted them their 3rd goal.
Perhaps if the rest of your defense isn't up to par, then Luiz shouldn't have license to go upfield, maybe he should defend. AVBs plan is to have Ramires and Raul Meireles cover for the centre back? That's insane.
I think that Chelsea fans are influenced by his Luiz's looks, charisma and sense of humour. They want to like him, so they do.
