yaya.....

I had wondered, with Yaya having turned thirty, whether we'd seen the last of those gut-busting surges. but not a bit of it. Dodging behind the Spurs centre-backs, swapping passes first with Fernandinho then with Negredo, shrugging off thicko Walker like a lion swatting a fly then the perfect ball for Aguero to score-he was right at the heart of a fabulous team goal.
 
grahamgor said:
I had wondered, with Yaya having turned thirty, whether we'd seen the last of those gut-busting surges. but not a bit of it. Dodging behind the Spurs centre-backs, swapping passes first with Fernandinho then with Negredo, shrugging off thicko Walker like a lion swatting a fly then the perfect ball for Aguero to score-he was right at the heart of a fabulous team goal.
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One moment of quality doesn't make for a good performance - unless you're watching the highlights on MOTD. Like many other times this season (and last), he was ineffective....almost totally so in the first half and then coming into the game a little more in the second, but of our midfield and strikers he added the least to our overall performance. It's a good job ferdy has a good engine on him to cover Yaya's lack of mobility.

When Silva is back I'd actually start with the same team as yesterday, just swapping Yaya for him as a deep lying playmaker. His workrate is far more than Yaya's and he gets stuck in more too. Other teams use their most creative players in a similar fashion - Alonson, Pirlo, Xavi etc are all generally more deep lying midfielders - and sitting alongside Ferdy he'll have licence to get forward and support the front 2.

And for the people who quote the "he's made more passes than any other PL player" - hey, even I can collect the ball off the defender and pass it 10 yards square to the next defender.

Perhaps I'm being greedy here, but I expect something a little extra from the guy on the best wage in the PL.

I'm already dreading Southampton away again, where their workrate will make Yaya look about as effective as he did in last year's game.
 
ChichesterBlue said:
grahamgor said:
I had wondered, with Yaya having turned thirty, whether we'd seen the last of those gut-busting surges. but not a bit of it. Dodging behind the Spurs centre-backs, swapping passes first with Fernandinho then with Negredo, shrugging off thicko Walker like a lion swatting a fly then the perfect ball for Aguero to score-he was right at the heart of a fabulous team goal.
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One moment of quality doesn't make for a good performance - unless you're watching the highlights on MOTD. Like many other times this season (and last), he was ineffective....almost totally so in the first half and then coming into the game a little more in the second, but of our midfield and strikers he added the least to our overall performance. It's a good job ferdy has a good engine on him to cover Yaya's lack of mobility.

When Silva is back I'd actually start with the same team as yesterday, just swapping Yaya for him as a deep lying playmaker. His workrate is far more than Yaya's and he gets stuck in more too. Other teams use their most creative players in a similar fashion - Alonson, Pirlo, Xavi etc are all generally more deep lying midfielders - and sitting alongside Ferdy he'll have licence to get forward and support the front 2.

And for the people who quote the "he's made more passes than any other PL player" - hey, even I can collect the ball off the defender and pass it 10 yards square to the next defender.

Perhaps I'm being greedy here, but I expect something a little extra from the guy on the best wage in the PL.

I'm already dreading Southampton away again, where their workrate will make Yaya look about as effective as he did in last year's game.
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Don't give up your day job
 
ChichesterBlue said:
grahamgor said:
I had wondered, with Yaya having turned thirty, whether we'd seen the last of those gut-busting surges. but not a bit of it. Dodging behind the Spurs centre-backs, swapping passes first with Fernandinho then with Negredo, shrugging off thicko Walker like a lion swatting a fly then the perfect ball for Aguero to score-he was right at the heart of a fabulous team goal.
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One moment of quality doesn't make for a good performance - unless you're watching the highlights on MOTD. Like many other times this season (and last), he was ineffective....almost totally so in the first half and then coming into the game a little more in the second, but of our midfield and strikers he added the least to our overall performance. It's a good job ferdy has a good engine on him to cover Yaya's lack of mobility.

When Silva is back I'd actually start with the same team as yesterday, just swapping Yaya for him as a deep lying playmaker. His workrate is far more than Yaya's and he gets stuck in more too. Other teams use their most creative players in a similar fashion - Alonson, Pirlo, Xavi etc are all generally more deep lying midfielders - and sitting alongside Ferdy he'll have licence to get forward and support the front 2.

And for the people who quote the "he's made more passes than any other PL player" - hey, even I can collect the ball off the defender and pass it 10 yards square to the next defender.

Perhaps I'm being greedy here, but I expect something a little extra from the guy on the best wage in the PL.

I'm already dreading Southampton away again, where their workrate will make Yaya look about as effective as he did in last year's game.
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Could'nt have said it better meself...though i would have added YaYa's little pitter/patter steps that he only employs when he's out of the play and he's already decided he's no chance of catching it .....are disconcerting....almost taking the piss. Blowing for the last 1/4 v Spurs, the run was a gud 'en no mistake but it's a good job they were'nt a team wanting a do back at us cause YaYa was'nt in it..poor that in this day and age for a professional footballer.
 
Is it just me that thinks that yellow was a blessing in disguise?
Realistically, we are not going to top the group and we've got Arsenal after
 
Ya ya is brilliant under pressure....give him the ball with players around him and he keeps it or passes to another city player. Stats don't show this sort of skill and this is why he is often played in front of the defence, It gives the defence a great outlet, yes he may pass the ball sideways but it has normally taken a couple of opposition players out and a bales other players to create a telling pass
 
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