Riyad Mahrez - 2018/2019 performances

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I thought he played ok first half. Not so great second half.

 

[Metalartin]

I don't think he should be starting any big games, until he finds form.

I'm not blaming him for anything, I just think we are more fluid and cohesive without him on Sané's and Sterling's current form.

 

[Scottish Cityzen]

Not blaming him for anything but we are stronger when he's on the bench. No ifs or buts about it. Sterling and Sane is our strongest team, Mahrez is still learning how we play, he'll get better, but for Liverpool, he's on the bench.

I like Mahrez, he is a terrific player who is still finding his way with us. He’ll be struggling to adapt to a new team/system/level of expectations/being in and out of the team etc. I hope and think he will come good.

Your post hits the nail on the head, Sane and Sterling are 99.9% of fans choice in our strongest team and rightly so. What is their current market value?

Both of them would command £100 million plus. Therefore the £60m spent on Mahrez is to allow us to rotate without much drop off in performance, I don’t think anyone expected him to be a nailed on starter. Similar to when Bernardo (after a tough first season) has stepped in so well this season minimising the pain of losing KDB or Merlin. Last season people were having doubts about Bernardo, that’s evaporated this season.

I hope that happens for Mahrez going into the second half of the season / next season (without any injuries to Leroy or Raheem!)

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Worst thing I’ve seen him do since signing was not passing to Sterling after that tremendous team move in the first half today.

Pass, Riyad... pass the fucking ball you greedy bastard!

This isn’t singles tennis or boxing, this is an XI-a-side team game of association football and we play under Pep Guardiola who is the greatest passing coach of all time.

PASS!

 

[super_city_si]

I don't think he should be starting any big games, until he finds form.

I'm not blaming him for anything, I just think we are more fluid and cohesive without him on Sané's and Sterling's current form.

FA cup and league cup. He should start those and get some confidence.

 

[pudge]

Worst thing I’ve seen him do since signing was not passing to Sterling after that tremendous team move in the first half today.

Pass, Riyad... pass the fucking ball you greedy bastard!

This isn’t singles tennis or boxing, this is an XI-a-side team game of association football and we play under Pep Guardiola who is the greatest passing coach of all time.

PASS!

Christ.

Genuine question, because this is mind boggling, where is the line between shooting and passing for folk?

Because he's 18 yards out on his left foot running into space and Sterling is on his bad foot. Should Silva have passed to Mahrez when he missed from 6 yards out or was that OK?

What's greedy? Because I sure don't see Mahrez shooting at that moment as greedy I just see it as a player taking a shot in a great position. People will say Sterling was in a better position but again, it would have been on his bad foot, which he missed from 6 yards with in the second half.

Are we to walk it in every time? Should we never shoot from "distance"?

Townsend must be the greediest bastard going when he took his shot against ourselves.

 

[blue wang]

Christ.

Genuine question, because this is mind boggling, where is the line between shooting and passing for folk?

Because he's 18 yards out on his left foot running into space and Sterling is on his bad foot. Should Silva have passed to Mahrez when he missed from 6 yards out or was that OK?

What's greedy? Because I sure don't see Mahrez shooting at that moment as greedy I just see it as a player taking a shot in a great position. People will say Sterling was in a better position but again, it would have been on his bad foot, which he missed from 6 yards with in the second half.

Are we to walk it in every time? Should we never shoot from "distance"?

Townsend must be the greediest bastard going when he took his shot against ourselves.

Precisely,

Mahrez was entitled to take that shot everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.

 

[Deleted member 81382]

Worst thing I’ve seen him do since signing was not passing to Sterling after that tremendous team move in the first half today.

Pass, Riyad... pass the fucking ball you greedy bastard!

To be fair, I'm not confident Sterling would've scored anyway. I'm glad we have a player who backs himself in front of goal.

 

[domalino]

Christ.

Genuine question, because this is mind boggling, where is the line between shooting and passing for folk?

Because he's 18 yards out on his left foot running into space and Sterling is on his bad foot. Should Silva have passed to Mahrez when he missed from 6 yards out or was that OK?

What's greedy? Because I sure don't see Mahrez shooting at that moment as greedy I just see it as a player taking a shot in a great position. People will say Sterling was in a better position but again, it would have been on his bad foot, which he missed from 6 yards with in the second half.

Are we to walk it in every time? Should we never shoot from "distance"?

Townsend must be the greediest bastard going when he took his shot against ourselves.

Sterling wasn't on his weak foot. Sterling was running from outside to in towards goal and any half decent pass would have put it on his strong right foot.

It's "greedy" - actually it's just bad play - beause Mahrez chose to take a low chance shot from outside the box rather than put his teammate through on goal with an easy chance to score.

Not only that, but he did it when we were 1-0 up and desperately looking for a second goal to stop us getting into the exact situation we were in against Palace and Leicester where we wasted chances and got punished for it.

It's really not hard, he ignored a player in a better position to score, and not for the first time, which is the opposite of what Sterling and Sané do, an approach which has helped us break Premier League goalscoring records because ultimately giving someone a tap-in or easy finish is better for the team than you trying to get that edge of the box screamer on MOTD.

Also Andros Townsend is a wasteful fuck, and one of the reasons he plays for Crystal Palace is because he scores 1 or 2 good goals a season from 200 attempts. Him scoring a great goal every 6 months isn't an example anyone should be trying to follow.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Christ.

Genuine question, because this is mind boggling, where is the line between shooting and passing for folk?

Because he's 18 yards out on his left foot running into space and Sterling is on his bad foot. Should Silva have passed to Mahrez when he missed from 6 yards out or was that OK?

What's greedy? Because I sure don't see Mahrez shooting at that moment as greedy I just see it as a player taking a shot in a great position. People will say Sterling was in a better position but again, it would have been on his bad foot, which he missed from 6 yards with in the second half.

Are we to walk it in every time? Should we never shoot from "distance"?

Townsend must be the greediest bastard going when he took his shot against ourselves.

There is no line, it’s about decision making and choosing the right option. In this instance there was a player in a better position, he chose to shoot instead of playing Sterling in. Against Leicester, when Sane went through and tried to square it, there was nobody in a better position than him, he should have shot but he made the wrong choice. Sterling and Sane both make wrong decisions but with them I feel it’s just a bad decision, whereas with Mahrez I don’t believe he even considers passing.