I thought he was OK yesterday, from memory of the stats shown at the end, he had the most passes in the game, and best pass completion rate.Horses for courses.
Yaya has a place in certain games and yesterday wasn't one of them, away to a Liverpool side that would press us to death.
No he wasn'tYaya was good yesteday
No he wasn't
Previous to the Liverpool game, Yaya had done ok. With a fast pace team, he was targetted as a weak link, and they got that right. Against slower teams he seams ok.I thought Yaya did pretty well, as long as he keeps working hard OFF the ball like he has been recently then he's a real asset to us!
My opinion is that away at Liverpool you need 2 central midfielders to track runners and make challenges on the edge of the box. Toure just cannot do this. The 2 ferns need to play.
Save Toure for possession games I.E Burnley.
No more so than Silva or DeBryune. We just couldn't play coz they worked as hard an they were just as talented, if not more so.Previous to the Liverpool game, Yaya had done ok. With a fast pace team, he was targetted as a weak link, and they got that right. Against slower teams he seams ok.
I don't think it would have mattered who we played today, anyy2 would have been overrun. Klopp's player's are just fitter than the rest of the league. The gut specializes in buying energizer bunnys for his system. So I'm not going to pretend it was just Yaya who couldn't cope. No one could until they backed off.Although Yaya was by no means the main reason why we lost, you were spot on here.
I had worried before the game that the inclusion of Yaya would signal a similar, slow, uninspired performance as last season's fixture at Anfield. The match was totally lost in midfield with Liverpool overrunning us entirely.
So I'm not going to pretend it was just Yaya who couldn't cope.
Lol.Neither am I, as I stated at the beginning of the post.
Yaya can still be an important player for us but not in all our matches and the other day was an example of one where I'd rather he didn't start. You might think that it wouldn't matter who we played because of Liverpool's high energy but, out of all of our central midfielders, Yaya is the most susceptible to being caught out by that kind of team.
It's not a dig at Yaya, we just chose the wrong tool for the job and I thought I'd acknowledge asahartford1's post as it was prematurely shot down by the abuser of ellipses.
Neither am I, as I stated at the beginning of the post.
Yaya can still be an important player for us but not in all our matches and the other day was an example of one where I'd rather he didn't start. You might think that it wouldn't matter who we played because of Liverpool's high energy but, out of all of our central midfielders, Yaya is the most susceptible to being caught out by that kind of team.
It's not a dig at Yaya, we just chose the wrong tool for the job and I thought I'd acknowledge asahartford1's post as it was prematurely shot down by the abuser of ellipses.
Who'd you rather in midfield over Yaya, Fernando?
Me too,i said that before the game he is not great against high intensity team,dinho had to work twice as hard and didn't have a good game as a resultIn that specific match? Absolutely.
I think Fernando while a better tackler is actually just as slow as Yaya, and with less technique on the ball.In that specific match? Absolutely.
Dihno was just poor, had nothing to do with how much harder he worked.Me too,i said that before the game he is not great against high intensity team,dinho had to work twice as hard and didn't have a good game as a result
I think Fernando while a better tackler is actually just as slow as Yaya