Yaya Toure - 2016/17 performances

[FJRMCFC]

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?

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Who'd you rather in midfield over Yaya, Fernando?

In that specific match? Absolutely.

 

[kaz7]

In that specific match? Absolutely.

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

 

[Dax777]

In 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.

The kind of players Liverpool plays in the middle are just complete harassers. Wiljdanun, Henderson, Can, Milner, etc are all well rounded CMs with workhorse engines. It's the kind of player Klopp targets. You can add the Cameroonian future Kompany at CB too. These guys plus their Tweener forwards, Lalana, Cutihno, and Firming make like difficult for anyone.

As I was watching the game all I could think was how easily Sterling would have fit into this Pool team. As he too has that engine.

We simply don't have it as consistently on our team.

 

[Dax777]

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

Dihno was just poor, had nothing to do with how much harder he worked.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

I think Fernando while a better tackler is actually just as slow as Yaya

I agree with what you say about Liverpool but I just fundamentally disagree with this. He even falls over in slow motion.

 

[super_city_si]

Well done yaya. When dinho went off he really stepped up and for the remainder of that half he put in a hell of a shift. Great stuff big man.

 

[shemnel]

another really good display though he was shot with 15 to go, surprised he didnt get subbed off but there we go, well played

 

[MCFC1993]

Bar the Liverpool game where he was just okay, he's been so important for us. As disciplined as ever in that deeper midfield role, he keeps it up and he's on for a year extension to his contract.

 

[B\connellblue]

Great effort from yaya today. Well done.