Sissoko is an incredible athelete and has a very good brain. You can’t survive under a coach like Poch and have a poor footy IQ, see Andros Townsend.
His problem his is that his feet can’t match his brain to do the end product, but he’s a phenomenal counter attacking/transition player.
Again, laughable. Plenty of not very intelligent players have continually played under Poch. You think Moura’s intelligent? Aurier? Walker? Rose? And Townsend was picked to play a cup final ahead of Lamela and Dembele by Poch and ended up being sold only after having a bust up with a member of Poch’s staff.
As stripiestpilot said, he’s reactive, and even his reactions are slow due to poor poor intelligence.
His feet match his brain perfectly. Not very intelligent and poor technique.
He creates virtually nothing on the counter, which is why not only is his assist rate poor, but even his pre-assist metrics like XG -build-up are poor.
You’re just saying stuff.