Ilkay Gundogan - 2016/17 Performances

[WesthoughtonJohn]

My opinion.
You could level all the arguements/comments about him against all 3 creative central players today.
Don't think KdB, Silva or Gundogen had good games - and therein lies the problem

 

[TotalFootballOne]

He's played 5-7 games and was out for 5 months due to an injury, is in a new league and like the rest of the team learning a new style of play.

 

[Lomas has a lob on]

He looked very nervous today, after a couple of early misplaced passes he seemed to adopt the attitude of just finding the nearest blue shirt!
Thought he improved in the 2nd half but our midfield was horrible today!

I doubt very much gundogen, silva and debruyne (arguably our 3 best passers of the ball) will all play so poorly collectively again!

 

[BlueMedic]

95% pass completion, created 4 chances(that's 4x the amount of Silva and Kev combined in this game), press was decent, kept play ticking over ....Far from a bad game imo

More interesting would be where those passes went, he seemingly just wants to pass backwards at the moment. Not sure if he's been told to do so but he's playing it very safe & looks scared to take any risks with his distribution which is leading to a lot of hesitancy when some good forward passes seem to be on.

Maintain he'll end up being a great signing, but at the moment he's off the pace - probably not helped by others in midfield seemingly being out of form too. We looked more balanced with a Silva/KdB/Dinho midfield, hopefully he can settle in & start to perform consistently at the level he's already shown to be capable of.

 

[PaulMoulden'sRecord]

Midfield in general didn't turn up. Way to slow and sloppy with the ball.

 

[the plasterer]

was garbage today, looks tired to me, class act though so today can be forgiven

 

[01cravend]

More interesting would be where those passes went, he seemingly just wants to pass backwards at the moment. Not sure if he's been told to do so but he's playing it very safe & looks scared to take any risks with his distribution which is leading to a lot of hesitancy when some good forward passes seem to be on.

Maintain he'll end up being a great signing, but at the moment he's off the pace - probably not helped by others in midfield seemingly being out of form too. We looked more balanced with a Silva/KdB/Dinho midfield, hopefully he can settle in & start to perform consistently at the level he's already shown to be capable of.

39.5% of his passes this season have been backwards

Silva 42.3%
Kev 36.7%

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

It's overkill having him in the midfield at home alongside Fernandinho.

If we play 3 at the back then for me we find room for Kelechi. Yes he didn't look great when starting against Everton but he and Kun need to start playing more games together and giving the opposition defence more to think about.

 

[BlueMedic]

39.5% of his passes this season have been backwards

Silva 42.3%
Kev 36.7%

Have you got todays for Gundogan? 95% pass accuracy sounds fab on paper, but from my eyes & evidently others he didn't have a good game. Was far better in other matches this season.

 

[Tevez City]

Ok he is very good player, but our record without him is much better, we played the best football with ( Fernandinho, Silva & KDB )