Broken clock theory...
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Player Dejan Kulusevski
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Thought he was brilliant today
Hark at you putting stats in quotes, love the growth son, there's an ice dancing judge in you somewhere.
Errr…he’s been just about our best or one of our best players in every game this season when he’s been in midfield.
The hands of the clock must be spinning hard!
So much better in the middle, he should always play there now
What you are meaning is he is seeing slightly more of the ball. because what he isn't doing is playing anything particularly incisive or line breaking. Another game where he created almost nothing (he's XA was 0.13 - Maddison, who was seeing double of the ball and doing a lot more work had an XA of 0.96).
What we really need in that R8 hybrid role is another Maddison type, who is press resistant in build up, tactically aware enough to drop when needed and bee advanced when needed and with the vision and ability to actually do something genuinely productive - not just constantly get into promising areas and deliver fuck all of quality under pressure.
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Sometimes Gifs just don’t do it
Should be flogging the bus driver instead of the dead horse.
I agree. He's growing into the new role and I'm saying it from a position of someone at first very sceptical about Ange squeezing him in there.
Fair play though, he works hard for the team and should only be getting better being young still.
Straight up. He’s tireless, big, strong and a committed presser. He actually tries to get to the end line to cut in from the right whereas Johnson almost never gets to that position to take on a man that way. Even if he looks a bit awkward overusing his left foot he still is winning tons of corners from that area.
Moving Kulu inside at 8/10 for a double CAM with Maddison is actually I think the most radical thing Ange has done tactically to improve us. It, along with moving back to a back 4, might actually be our real revolution since Conte- back 4 double CAM is so much more offensive than back 5 double CDM.
Kulu has been awesome in his new role and I know he will continue to grown and improve there. Glad we finally did it- he had been telling us he was really a CAM all along- good that we finally listened to him.
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Getting back to his best he is. Good signing by paratici.
Watched the game back.
I can't fight you on his final execution at times. He had one fantastic situation where he was in the box going to his right foot with Solanke to his left. Quick decision needed and it was clearly the lay off to Solanke but he chose to shoot. You win some, you lose some in those situations though, and the longer the season goes on, the better those decisions will get IMO.
But what is very clear is that he is a pressing monster and constantly getting into incredible situations. He's also a reliable out ball under pressure and able to pick his moments to pop up in awkward places for the defense. He's really really smart and works really really hard. Watch the shot he had from Maddison and Udogie playing that 1-2 vs Brentford. He hit a good shot with his left foot that you'd expect him to score but what was he doing there playing like a second #9 instead of R8. Brentford clearly weren't expecting him to be there either. He does that all the time with smart movements. Maddison found him in the pocket several times because he's seeing the next play and ready for the pass before even Maddison has seen it.
Fair, but I think you will always look to the positives with the guy. He’s got ability but I can’t overlook the fact that he’s been here 3 years and his decision and execution is still pretty ropey. He’s not lazy per se, but he’s not quick at recovering sometimes.
He’s a bit like Grealish in that he has technical ability but not short burst acceleration so he can drift past one man sometimes, but often can’t stay past him so has to hurry the next action, and invariably fucks it up.
I get that most dribbly guys come with flaw built in, but he’s got too many for me.
