I probably pay more attention than I should.
People are too busy being impressed by his ridiculous work rate to notice that some (not all) of his decision making when it comes to pressing, is very poorly thought out.
Off the top of my head, I can think of 4 or 5 important goals where his decision making let us down, leading directly to a goal against.
Leicester at home. He tries to engage Kante (without checking what is behind him) on the half way line, Kante easily skips by him and passes to Mahrez who runs into the space vacated by Dinho before scoring.
United at home. He tries to press on to a potential poor first touch on the half way line (turned out to be a great first touch) by Mata. Mata simply plays a 1-2 around him before running into the space vacated by Dinho, before passing to Rashford who scores.
Spurs home. Yaya is running through the middle with the ball. Dinho neglects to hold and ends up getting himself ahead of the ball. Yaya is tackled and Spurs are clean through on the backline. Lamela plays in Eriksen who scores.
PSG away. Loses Rabiot for a simple tap in.
Arsenal home. Doesn't track the 1-2 for the equaliser.
Those are crucial goals in massive games and that's off the top of my head. He's a good player, but he's also a total headless chicken at times. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it causes problems. I find it weird how Dinho seems totally exempt from any form of criticism on here.
If these are correct and I have to say, I hadn't noticed how pivotel his role was in some of these then there are no doubt questions to answer. I think people just love his style and it glosses over some of the weaknesses. It also helps him shine when the rest of the midfield are so uninspiring as they have been this season.
Fernandinho was supposed to be a B+, typo there.If I was Fernandinho and I got the same grade as Delph, Sterling and Mangala I would be changing schools ...also you rated Bony and Silva the same WTF ...Silva has not been the merlin we know but still same as Bony is a no no
Wait... Bony played in the wrong position? I see, he must be a winger.Hart - 8/10 : kept us in games in the CL singlehandedly and hasn't made too many glaring errors. Also Captain material displayed.
Willy - 5.5/10 - Hero in the League Cup throughout, disastrous in evey other competition. A nice guy but will,probably moved on.
Wright - N/A
Sagna - 7/10 - solid season defensively, contributes a little attacking wise and should,be kept on for one more year.
Zaba - 5/10 - time has caught up with him, as have injuries. Sad to see him probably leave. A Hero.
Mangala - 6/10 - started well, poor middle season, good end
Otamendi - 6.5/10 - give him the benefit of the doubt as its still,his first season. Shown glimpses of what he can do but goes down too easy
Kompany - 5.5/10 season wrecked by injuries. Been hot and cold when playing. Whenever he goes off it demoralizes the team.
MDM - 2.5/10 - not his fault his legs have gone.
Clichy - 6.5/10 - average throughout.
Kolarov - 3/10 - started ok, has regressed and regressed. Time to go. Poor work rate too
Fernando -7/10 - always liked him and showing what he can do. Not many people appreciate the work he does in order to try solidify us, and his work is effective if unspecstcular. Been amongst the goals recently.
Delph - 4/10 - never impressed me
Fernandinho 7.5/10 - could score more goals, and has been burnt out...again. Solid season overall
Yaya - 6.5/10 not as bad as people make out , scored a few winners and could do a job off the bench ala Lampard if his ego would let him. Probably will be moved on but hasn't been as bad as people say. Recent games are due to not being fully fit.
Silva - 6/10 - not really hit it this season has he?
Nasri - N/A - too few games to judge accurately...hopefully Wil stay as imo class on his day and he will be motivated for Peps first season (as he was upon first arrival and Pellegrinis first season)
KDB - 7.5/10 - good debut season, but when he plays badly, he plays very badly.
Sterling - 6/10 - started well and has faded drastically.
Navas - 6.5/10 - can't fault the commitment and defensive qualities.
-Nacho - 7/10 - good first season, still unproven vs big teams but has promising signs
Wilf - 5.5/10 - has been asked to play in the wrong position and this has affected him. Illness and injuries haven't helped, neither has the constant booing. The lad is only human and it will not help his confidence. Hopefully he will remain as 3rd striker next season as he could be used as a plan B. Unfortunately. Can't see him being a pep player, which is a shame because the lad Could have been our Drogba. Has still scored an ok amount and it was the big man who helped us get top spot in the CL group - his performance vs Sevilla and the changing of the game vs Gladbach.
Aguero 7.5/10 - scored quite a lot, but his movement has gone down a bit. I feel he could pass more frequently at times.
Yet, the stats sites ( who mainly take the OPTA data feed) made him man of the match against Arsenal. As one example, whoscored top-scored him with 9.37 out of 10. If you look at the underlying numbers he achieved in the game (and not just the goal) it is easy to see why. Maybe many of his other contributions in the game escaped you.
That's another brilliant example of why I don't pay too much attention to stats, mate. Particularly stats based on algorithms created by mathematicians and programmers who know nothing about football.
How do you know the people involved in creating the ratisngs algorithms know noting about football? How do you know that experts in the subject of football have not advised on what stats to include and what weight to give them?
Geeks know nothing about football, thought everyone knew that. :-)How do you know the people involved in creating the ratisngs algorithms know noting about football? How do you know that experts in the subject of football have not advised on what stats to include and what weight to give them?
Geeks know nothing about football, thought everyone knew that. :-)