Oleks Zinchenko - 2018/19 Performances

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Zinchenko has all the potential to become a very good player but he lacks belief , a couple of occasions in the 2nd half he had the opportunity to run at Raggy Raphael and he took the safe option , he needs to take a risk and show his ability or he will fall by the wayside , its a make or break season for him.
 
Thaksinssoldier said:
I thought he played very well considering part of the Lyon plan was to have 2 on 1 running against him. He looked exhausted by 60 mins though.

Technically very tidy and for me played far better than Walker on the other side.
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Hmmmm... Like I said, I have to watch the game without the buffering. But I didn't think he was bad. Not particularly influential either.

Lots of guys played poorly. I think Lyon has our number. And I'm worried it has a lot to do with Auour and Ndombele. They both have an instead ability to turn away from our press and dribble to safety.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
Zinchenko has all the potential to become a very good player but he lacks belief , a couple of occasions in the 2nd half he had the opportunity to run at Raggy Raphael and he took the safe option , he needs to take a risk and show his ability or he will fall by the wayside , its a make or break season for him.
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This was dissapointed. I remember at least one of those instances.
 
Dax777 said:
Hmmmm... Like I said, I have to watch the game without the buffering. But I didn't think he was bad. Not particularly influential either.

Lots of guys played poorly. I think Lyon has our number. And I'm worried it has a lot to do with Auour and Ndombele. They both have an instead ability to turn away from our press and dribble to safety.
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Agree , Lyons midfield where very good tonight , their manager had his tactics spot on , good footy game and a fair result in the end , and its nice to be tested by a decent football team for a change.
 
The team can’t all be agueros and silvas we need squad players and zin fills the role very well indeed. Can play midfield and full back . Same with Danilo and Delph. We need these players we have Xmas then all the cup games coming up in jan we need all these players to play their part
 
I thought he played well last night.
Could of dodgy passes and a wee bit more confidence needed going forward but a good performance for me.
 
Played ok but should have been a lot closer to Cornet to try and stop the shot/ put a tackle in .
 
I thought he had one of his poorest games for us, gave the ball away more than he's done before, Lyon played well, but I struggled to understand where he was meant to be playing, and he didn't give Fernandhino much help.
 
FantasyIreland said:
As did the player himself IMO.I'm pretty confident Pep's preparation would have been spot on,so i can only imagine the instruction went over Zinchenko's head.
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He's done that role before though, so perhaps it was just Lyon's quality ?

I was surprised he started, and even more that he remained on for the full 90, but once Delph came on, he did seem to settle down a bit.
 
The way a lot are going on one would think we lost to Lyon. I thought it was a hard fought draw away against a very good Lyon team who scored 2 goals against us, the only team to do so this season and they have done it twice.

The criticism is harsh on the players but very harsh on Zinchenko who is adapting to a position which is not his natural position and was in the first half playing DM next to Fernandinho and then having to scamper across to LB to cover Lyon’s fast attack down our right hand side. I don’t believe Zinchenko just sat in front of the back 3 by accident it must have been a plan from Guardiola with Walker playing more as a right sided CB. It didn’t work and we reverted to Back 4 in the 2nd half and we looked more comfortble.

We all know Zin would not be our first choice LB and in the long term as fans we would want a natural LB for cover or even to challenge Mendy as No. 1.

He does a superb job and keeps possession and gets up well for headers considering his small stature. Plays a massive part in the club cameraderie which keeps a good feeling around the club and players.

Unlikely to be here next season but I am very grateful for what he brings to this team at this present time and what a TEAM this is. History makers.
 
Withnail said:
Played ok but should have been a lot closer to Cornet to try and stop the shot/ put a tackle in .
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He was 2 v 1. He was Frozen by the guy who attempted to control the ball but missed. The ball fell to the striker who got in a fantastic curler. And Zee was right there. The guy just put in a great shot.

After watching the game sgaag, I can confirm a few of the earlier post on this thread were just fake outrage.

He was decent. Dissapointed with his conservative play. But ok overall. He was better than Walker at RB, who you know..."is a real RB" whatever that means. :)
 
cleavers said:
He's done that role before though, so perhaps it was just Lyon's quality ?

I was surprised he started, and even more that he remained on for the full 90, but once Delph came on, he did seem to settle down a bit.
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It was. How that is not obvious to @FantasyIreland baffles me.

I mean, I'm sure David and Dihno weren't confused about their roles, still didn't stop them from playing poorly though.

All one needs to do is apply the same reasoning here. Perhaps if Dave and Mahrez and Dihno and Sane and Sterling didn't play too well. Perhaps just perhaps whstewha caused them to not play well also caused Zinchencko to not play too well.

But no, it must be that he lacks something personally.
 
cleavers said:
I thought he had one of his poorest games for us, gave the ball away more than he's done before, Lyon played well, but I struggled to understand where he was meant to be playing, and he didn't give Fernandhino much help.
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Nor did Fernandihno offer him much helped.
 
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