Player Topic: Kevin De Bruyne (2015/16)

[its a Barm]

Plays the game a second ahead of anyone else on the pitch. Simply brilliant

You don't watch a lot of David Silva then.

 

[bobom]

This kind of (low) cross, is really his trademark.

The thing is: most players would control the ball that Silva gives, go to their right foot, and try to outdribble their opponents or lay the ball back. What De Bruyne does, is he takes the risk and just puts the ball in front of goal with his left foot as quick as possible, so that the defenders do not have time to react. The striker, Agüero, is first to the ball because he DOES know that De Bruyne will do this.

Especially at Wolfsburg (but also at Genk, Bremen, national team) he got a lot of assists like this. Just, out of nowhere, putting the low cross in towards the 6 yards box, surpising everyone, including the goalkeeper. If I was the goalkeeper, I would watch a compilation of De Bruyne and anticipate to this, but apparently the crosses (with right AND left) are always just too good.

Yes, it's great how many of his key passes are first touches. He doesn't waste a second on the ball.

 

[Burtonblue]

This guy is a real team player.
Brilliant range of passing.
Lots of one touch stuff.
Has added speed and incisiveness to our team much more than Sterling who must be just a little worried about his spot in the starting 11.
He could go on to be the Colin Bell of our times (and possibly more!)

 

[Mr HJ]

This kind of (low) cross, is really his trademark.

The thing is: most players would control the ball that Silva gives, go to their right foot, and try to outdribble their opponents or lay the ball back. What De Bruyne does, is he takes the risk and just puts the ball in front of goal with his left foot as quick as possible, so that the defenders do not have time to react. The striker, Agüero, is first to the ball because he DOES know that De Bruyne will do this.

Especially at Wolfsburg (but also at Genk, Bremen, national team) he got a lot of assists like this. Just, out of nowhere, putting the low cross in towards the 6 yards box, surpising everyone, including the goalkeeper. If I was the goalkeeper, I would watch a compilation of De Bruyne and anticipate to this, but apparently the crosses (with right AND left) are always just too good.

Good point - spot on. He is a joy to watch.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

His two assists were phenomenal really. You can see why he's Europe's assist king. We need our strikers to gamble a lot more. That wasn't the first time De Bruyne has fed in a perfect cross in between keeper and defence, but every other time there was nobody trying to get on the end of it. Hopefully now that Aguero has received a confidence boost, he will continue to gamble like he did for his 5th. De Bruyne will put the ball there all day long.

 

[BlueTG]

How many assists does he have in all comps? He's turning out to be a bit of a revelation.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

how good will he be when he and the rest get to know each others game. scary thought

 

[Ducado]

I thought he was quite poor in the first half but he grew into the game with the rest of the team

 

[Sergio Picasso Aguero]

Would be interesting to see how a 433 would work. Something like this:

Fernando - Toure - Fernandinho

Silva - Aguero - De Bruyne

The 2 Ferns providing protection allowing Yaya to get forward more with Merlin and KDB in behind Kun. The width would have to come primarily from the fullbacks (Zaba and Aleks) but if we become too narrow then we have Navas and Sterling on the bench to add a different dimension to our attack.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Would be interesting to see how a 433 would work. Something like this:

Fernando - Toure - Fernandinho

Silva - Aguero - De Bruyne

The 2 Ferns providing protection allowing Yaya to get forward more with Merlin and KDB in behind Kun. The width would have to come primarily from the fullbacks (Zaba and Aleks) but if we become too narrow then we have Navas and Sterling on the bench to add a different dimension to our attack.

Playing Yaya almost as a 10 does not work any more. Forget about it! Silva and De Bruyne are dangerous there because they are always moving to the space. Yaya can't do that. He's better playing deeper with time on the ball to dictate. But he's vulnerable even there because of his lack of defending. We have two of the best number 10s in world football, and you are advocating playing neither of them at number 10!