Balotelli has great strength but hardly uses it. I want to see him trying to take players more and trying to ride challenges instead of going to his feet.
It seems as if he doesn't understand yet that referees in England are more lenient than what he has been used to all his life.
Case and point, it should be obvious to anyone that when he plays in European matches he wins far more free kicks. Remember when he came on at Sporting, and he was winning free kicks like a monster? In 4 games alone (UCL + UEL), he was fouled nearly 20 times, HALF the amount of total fouls he had for that whole premier league season.
I'm not surprised he goes down a lot. He's used to winning plenty of them so it's probably programmed in his head to fall. In Serie A, he suffered 80 fouls a season compared to 40 in the Premier League for similar amount of minutes played.
No clue why I went on an on with this post haha. Perhaps it's because I feel so passionately that he could be dangerous if he didn't go down easily.
He also needs to become a better team mate. That means holding on to the ball for support instead of trying to be a hero and losing possession, playing the simple pass, and not denying players in better positions the ball so often.
It seems as if he doesn't understand yet that referees in England are more lenient than what he has been used to all his life.
Case and point, it should be obvious to anyone that when he plays in European matches he wins far more free kicks. Remember when he came on at Sporting, and he was winning free kicks like a monster? In 4 games alone (UCL + UEL), he was fouled nearly 20 times, HALF the amount of total fouls he had for that whole premier league season.
I'm not surprised he goes down a lot. He's used to winning plenty of them so it's probably programmed in his head to fall. In Serie A, he suffered 80 fouls a season compared to 40 in the Premier League for similar amount of minutes played.
No clue why I went on an on with this post haha. Perhaps it's because I feel so passionately that he could be dangerous if he didn't go down easily.
He also needs to become a better team mate. That means holding on to the ball for support instead of trying to be a hero and losing possession, playing the simple pass, and not denying players in better positions the ball so often.