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James Maddison

Bullet said:
Perceptive. This guy argues the same with some nice diagrams and images.
Essentially Spam had a back 4 and Rodriguez as DM in front... but then they also dropped Soucek and Paqueta deep alongside Rodriguez, in a 4-3 formation.
Then when Bowen and Kudus tracked our full backs it was a deep 4-5--------1 with Antonio on his own.

By removing Maddison for Sarr, it meant Soucek had no-one to mark so he pushed up higher, leaving space for Udogie to exploit for the second goal.

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Great minds (and all that)
But it was the clear change and I’ll be honest… not own I thought about and not for half time too
Ange planned that before the end of the first half
Smart guy our manager
 
parklane1 said:
IMO he has always been a inconsistant player at his previous clubs and he seems to be just the same here. For a player who has his skillset he drifts in and out of games far too often.
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Really good to have another option in Kulusevski, and hopefully in time also Bergvall.

Time will tell if Maddison can find more consistency. If he doesn't having other options is vital. But perhaps having other options can also help him become more consistent?

In part perhaps because he'll know that he could be benched/subbed. But just as much also that we can manage his minutes and not put so much responsibility on him.
 
no reason for maddison to start games now but he has nothing to complain about.

i think ange had asked maddison to start deeper in previous game but he didn't look comfortable there.
 
braineclipse said:
Really good to have another option in Kulusevski, and hopefully in time also Bergvall.

Time will tell if Maddison can find more consistency. If he doesn't having other options is vital. But perhaps having other options can also help him become more consistent?

In part perhaps because he'll know that he could be benched/subbed. But just as much also that we can manage his minutes and not put so much responsibility on him.
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That is a good point, at his previous clubs he was always thought of as their best player [ despite his up and down perormances]. Here he has much more competition for his spot so IF he wants to be the number one here he will have to show more consistency. Lets hope he can do that.
 
parklane1 said:
That is a good point, at his previous clubs he was always thought of as their best player [ despite his up and down perormances]. Here he has much more competition for his spot so IF he wants to be the number one here he will have to show more consistency. Lets hope he can do that.
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He's a good player, my opinion

- It was always likely that a Maddison & Deki both playing in that 8 role would be limited in the teams/games we could use it
- Deki is probably the form player in the league right now, so he earns the spot (in the games where it's just one)
- Interesting the perspective that we actually adjusted from 4-3-3 to 4-2-3-1 at HT, and it's more the formation that suits the player than output

I think pretty much our full midfield and front line except Son has to expect that they need to fight for their place and there is competition, that's a good thing.
 
Bullet said:
Perceptive. This guy argues the same with some nice diagrams and images.
Essentially Spam had a back 4 and Rodriguez as DM in front... but then they also dropped Soucek and Paqueta deep alongside Rodriguez, in a 4-3 formation.
Then when Bowen and Kudus tracked our full backs it was a deep 4-5--------1 with Antonio on his own.

By removing Maddison for Sarr, it meant Soucek had no-one to mark so he pushed up higher, leaving space for Udogie to exploit for the second goal.

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I think that was a side effect possibly of the change but I also think the main purpose of the change and the main impact waw to get us more legs in there. That's what Ange said in his interview and while I don't think Maddison is lazy, it's just that they were coming forward quicker than he and Kulu were coming back and we know Bissouma can let runners go at times so what Sarr gave us was someone coming back quickly to plug gaps and win the ball back as well as bring able to maintain that pressure in attack. That just started turning the ball over regularly in our favour and they started going from looking organised and a threat to ragged and out of the game relatively quickly.
 
Is it perhaps the case that Ange isn't playing to Maddison's strength? When you think back, Madds played his best football with Ndidi and Tielemans. They had very hard working wide players like Barnes and Albrighton. That just meant that Maddison had license to play forward.

Ange has recently changed the 2-1 midfield to a 1-2. The double pivot has gone, and now Madds and Kulu need to support Biss or Bents behind. Madds has no choice but to knuckle down and be one of the adjustable parts that improves the overall team.
 
Don't forget Maddison has been working really hard and got LOTS of interceptions in recent matches.
He's not like a typical show pony #10, he does a lot of the hard yards. Just not as much as Super Sarr Boy
 
he may work hard but he is not smart enough to be in the right places where the team can be effective.

high xg and a lot of chances however many converted into goals because build up is too slow and there are 6 defenders in the way - xg can't track that !
 
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