Yaya Toure - 2016/17 performances

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blueinsa said:
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.
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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.

Had Liverpool pressed us to death I'd agree wrong player, but they didn't they just sat back and kept us out, for me that is the sort of game where he might just find some magic from somewhere to unlock a defence or score a good goal.
 
asahartford1 said:
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.
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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.
 
Yaya has one major flaw and that's his predictable movement.

If you have a striker (Rooney) always coming short for a ball into feet, as a defender you know you can get tight and force him to play the ball backwards. If you have a striker (Vardy) that always runs in behind, as a defender you know you can drop off and restrict the space.

It's the same with Yaya. He always comes short for the ball into feet so the opposition midfield just stop him turning and he plays the ball backwards or sideways. They know he's not going to turn and dribble past them, they know he's not going to drag them in and then make a run in behind them so the variety and therefore fear factor he used to have is none existent these days. Yeah he's fitter than he was and he's working harder but it's just not enough against decent teams, just like it hasn't been for the past 2-3 years.
 
mosssideblue said:
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.
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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.

I think Yaya was at fault for the goal with that shit free kick, bit other than that, he was one if our better players.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
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.
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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.
 
Dax777 said:
So I'm not going to pretend it was just Yaya who couldn't cope.
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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.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
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.
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Lol.
 
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