Fernandinho - 2017/18 Performances

[kupest]

Its not him alone. We fuck him up by giving him the ball in our half with 3 players near him. Its stupid.

 

[mccity]

He's not been at it, but when you consider it was Alonso at Bayern and Busquets at Barcelona playing that role you can maybe appreciate the difficulty he has. Hopefully Gundogan can come in and take some of the strain off him.

 

[K10&S21]

i cant understand the exact role he plays within the system

 

[mccity]

i cant understand the exact role he plays within the system

He's meant to play the holding role that Yaya does. But I believe he's more of an allrounder than a specialist like we need. He's not quite the right player for the way we play, but I suppose it's his legwork that's getting him in the XI at the moment, I mean you can never fault him for a lack of effort. I suspect he's a stopgap for Gundogan, like Sane was for Mendy last week.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

i cant understand the exact role he plays within the system

He runs around. That's it. Doesn't offer anything going forward, actually slows us down to walking pace and doesn't do a particularly good job in a defensive sense.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Needed to go, shouldn't be starting.

Can't do a simple give and go and it's killing our middle.

 

[BlueisCity]

He's been a completely different player ever since Toure took his place in the lineup last year. He's been subpar these past 3 games and there is 0 reason for him to start vs Pool, its time for Toure to start vs Pool.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Probably our most consistent performer the past two or three years. Cut him some slack.

 

[Clercqs]

Probably our most consistent performer the past two or three years. Cut him some slack.

Disagree. Think that he's been poor for the most part of this year. He doesnt seem good enough on the ball to play as a DM in this formation. He'd still be a good back up to Mendy as he's a pretty good full back.

 

[almir]

He's been a completely different player ever since Toure took his place in the lineup last year. He's been subpar these past 3 games and there is 0 reason for him to start vs Pool, its time for Toure to start vs Pool.

not sure liverpool is the great game to introduce toure, that might be too fast for him, but he should damn be starting the matches like brighton and bournemouth. I can't understand why we extended his contract if he's not playing that kind of matches where he is still good enough to offer us something better than Fernandinho currently does. He's certainly capable of picking some good pass up front and theye teams will spend most of the time in their box defending.