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Player Dejan Kulusevski

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What I've learnt from the last few pages is that there's two ways of looking at the world:
bus-conductor said:
The back flick was still unnecessary vanity though, and made it harder for Maddison to collect the ball and as a consequence made the chance harder than if Kulusevski had just played a simple wall pass at the correct pace.
More good please, less stupid tricks.
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Billy Bob mate said:
It's a shame Oh-nana got his shoulder in the way of Maddison's chance in the first half, cos Kulu touch back to him was sexy as fuck..
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I'd always go for option 2 myself. That move definitely had me off the sofa bellowing something incoherent about Kulusexy. But each to their own I guess.
 
Gilded Lily said:
What I've learnt from the last few pages is that there's two ways of looking at the world:

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I'd always go for option 2 myself. That move definitely had me off the sofa bellowing something incoherent about Kulusexy. But each to their own I guess.
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bus-conductor said:
The back flick was still unnecessary vanity though, and made it harder for Maddison to collect the ball and as a consequence made the chance harder than if Kulusevski had just played a simple wall pass at the correct pace.

More good please, less stupid tricks.

Also this strange claim that he’s got a fabulous engine. I just don’t get this. His engine is no better than anyone else is in that team we have people like Porro and Udogie running up and down the pitch all day long from to end. Maddison covers way more ground, and sees way more ball.
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Fuck off with this.

I generally value your opinion but you seriously can’t put your bias against Kulusevski aside.

The back heel comment is utterly ridiculous… you realize the back heel creates an entirely different angle and timing than a regular pass received in front of the hips?

Plus the engine comment.

I mean you are mostly embarrassing yourself here but it’s annoying as fuck reading this BS.
 
bus-conductor said:
I think there’s a lot of premature sucking off of each other. I get it, the Kulu fanboys have had to wait two years for a genuine MoTm type performance, so you want to party. But let’s keep some perspective. He was really good, I was one of the 1st to come in and say man of the match well played. But that game is a unicorn where he’s concerned. A massive outlier.

Quoting chances and key passes is bogus. They mean very little as a qualitative measurement. Playing 8/10 for an incredibly attacking team will influence that hugely. Maddison’s XA is higher than Kulusevski’s for the season still, and of Kulusevski’s 1.98 XA, 1.45 of it came in that one game against a shit Utd. Which begs the valid question, where was kulusevski the rest of the games when we needed him. Against tougher opponents like Arse, Newcastle?

What was good was that Kulusevski was much more involved in the game yesterday and actually created tangible stuff. The back flick was still unnecessary vanity though, and made it harder for Maddison to collect the ball and as a consequence made the chance harder than if Kulusevski had just played a simple wall pass at the correct pace. And he also chose to shoot straight at the defender when we had a 2v1 situation to his left. These things were at 1-0 when the game was not ours.

He did also play a fantastic ball to put Werner away (the second one). And was involved in lots of good stuff.

More good please, less stupid tricks.

Let’s just see him do this consistently for a bunch of games. I don’t even care if he doesn’t score or make an assist every game if he’s just more involved and making better decisions and executions in the buildup that will impress me.

Also this strange claim that he’s got a fabulous engine. I just don’t get this. His engine is no better than anyone else is in that team we have people like Porro and Udogie running up and down the pitch all day long from to end. Maddison covers way more ground, and sees way more ball. Kulusevski isn’t always the quickest to get back. We play an extremely demanding brand of football, and athleticism is a minimum requirement, and nearly all our players show this, most as much if not more than Kulusevski.

Let’s just keep it real. Good game, needs to do it most weeks. Not once.
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Spot on.
 
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