The issue is worse than his runs nor being played in and wasted.
The deliberate manner in which his efficiency is limited by the style/tactics actually allows teams to take huge liberties.
The amount of average reams who now tske huge risks and push up against us and play a high line us a joke.
Often it is totally different than previous years when we faced teams camped on their six yard box. Now we have bog standard defences playing against the best on the shoulder striker in the world and taking the piss by pushing up towards half way again and again.
Most of these teams are not good enough to do this, especially against a top team. But they aren't punished for doing so.
They must be laughing their bollocks off. They would be punished more for doing this against the likes if West Ham or Everton, who have average strikers and average midfielders supplying them
Even more baffling is that they punished Liverpool for doing a similar, albeit not identical, thing very recently, last year Jesus and Sterling were explicitly used to punished their high.line at the Etihad and chosen on the day for that quality. It ripped them apart and they got a draw through sheer luck. So they can do it and he can tell them to do it.
Okay, not exactly the same because now we have even less players who can support the player running in behind but that is deliberate and by design too.