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Lots of Moussa love in the house
Lots of Moussa love in the house
I said to my boyfriend recently, “You know, we’ve been together for 2 years – I think it’s about time we started talking about the future.”I can see him being a 10-15 goal / 15-20 assist a year player for us in the future.
That's true, but it doesn't fully absolve him of harry7 accusation. A lot of the time he's trying to make risky passes when they're just not on.
He's often falling on his arse, under pressure and he launches a pass without properly assessing the state of play. Just needs to calm it down a bit sometimes, a couple of more baward and sideways passes would help his overall game IMO. A bit like PEH, a few unambitious passes helps to retain possession, and makes pressing him even more frustrating for the opposition.
No. I'm talking about a slight adjustment to the pattern of play. I just think that he's plenty creative, but ocassionally he'd be better served to just lay it off to PEH with his first touch.Blimey, do you want a team of safe sideways passers then?
Not sure what games you eatching but he passes it simple plenty of times. Or have you created this image where Ndombele attempts hollywood passes 95% of the time?No. I'm talking about a slight adjustment to the pattern of play. I just think that he's plenty creative, but ocassionally he'd be better served to just lay it off to PEH with his first touch.
Later in the games you see opposition players try to press him a lot more and he does give away the ball a bit. It would be better if he lays it off to PEH/Dier etc so the guy pressing him is more frustrated. Then next time he'll be a little less eager to press, giving Tanguy space and time to turn and find a pass.
This is pretty much how City operate, they're lot aren't any better than Tanguy or PEH.
Nope. But he does hold onto the ball and try to engineer one of those mental dribbles a bit too much. Let's say he plays simple passses 60% of the time and tries to dribble and play an ambitious pass 40% of the time.Ndombele attempts hollywood passes 95% of the time?
His acceleration looks so much better in this vid
thats why hes knackered after an hour because of the energy that them dribbles take out of him, luckily hes so good he very rarely loses the ball. see a thing with grealish interview and he said about KDB being great etc etc, made a great point that with KDB you never know what hes going to do as he has so much variety to his game. he can play it easy, go on a dribble, or play a hollywood ball. all comes down to football I.Q and knowing what to do and when.Nope. But he does hold onto the ball and try to engineer one of those mental dribbles a bit too much. Let's say he plays simple passses 60% of the time and tries to dribble and play an ambitious pass 40% of the time.
I think it would be a bit more 50/50. It's why I think Mou plays him higher up the pitch rather than his former no 8, box to box role.
I don’t see him dwell on the ball. He passes and moves. Or tries to dribble like you said. He usually pulls those off which gives us advantage as he takes out players. I wouldn’t want him to become a safer player, we already have a lot of midfielders doing that.Nope. But he does hold onto the ball and try to engineer one of those mental dribbles a bit too much. Let's say he plays simple passses 60% of the time and tries to dribble and play an ambitious pass 40% of the time.
I think it would be a bit more 50/50. It's why I think Mou plays him higher up the pitch rather than his former no 8, box to box role.
I think it slows us down a bit. I don't think it's a big ask, like my issues with his fitness. Anyway, let's agree to disagree, I think it's something Mou will eventuall make him do anyway.I don’t see him dwell on the ball. He passes and moves. Or tries to dribble like you said. He usually pulls those off which gives us advantage as he takes out players. I wouldn’t want him to become a safer player, we already have a lot of midfielders doing that.