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Rodrigo Bentancur

glasgowspur said:
My memory is hazy, but as I recall he turned and beat the first press, looked up and no one was available and got caught with the follow up press.
Our lack of movement is criminal and it has been for years, over multiple managers and multiple squads.
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You're probably talking about another time, as I know he lost the ball more than once. Here is the example I'm referring to, receiving the ball with his back to goal and a couple of players coming to him but instead of playing a simple pass he tries to dribble around them and loses it putting us in trouble:
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PS agree about the lack of movement in general....
 
Bishop said:
His first instinct is to dribble, hes not a pass first player. I kind of think him in CM isn't going to solve the issues. Yes he will drive with it, and at times that's going to open up fantastic situations but I don't think he helps the speed of the ball movement or the speed of its rotation because he's not an expansive passer. Maybe given the role he will add that to his game but for the moment its not his strength.

I'd go for Gray or Sarr right now if we just can't get Bentancur to turn back time and turn back into the mini metronome.
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He should be doing what he does well further up the pitch, I don't want to see him receiving the ball as deep as he does at times. As you've said he's not a passer, really think Gray is a better option on these types of positions and as I've said previously Sarr should be playing anyway....
 
glasgowspur said:
Bergvall lost the ball because he had no one to release it to.
It's a similar discussion to the kulu holding onto the ball too long from the last couple of seasons, they are progressive players, neither of them will just endlessly pass it backward.
We need to get players around them and moving.
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Yes and no imo.

Maddison for example very rarely gives the ball away in that kind of situation while managing to be progressive.

Kulusevski and Bergvall are higher risk. But all of them would benefit from having more progressive passing options.
 
harr1984 said:
You're probably talking about another time, as I know he lost the ball more than once. Here is the example I'm referring to, receiving the ball with his back to goal and a couple of players coming to him but instead of playing a simple pass he tries to dribble around them and loses it putting us in trouble:
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PS agree about the lack of movement in general....
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Yes, it was at the other end.
 
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As Nathan Clark points out small sample size. Also a lot of differences from last season to this season.

But still. Strengthens my view that this is Bentancur playing as instructed.
 
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As Nathan Clark points out small sample size. Also a lot of differences from last season to this season.

But still. Strengthens my view that this is Bentancur playing as instructed.
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Any player that is consistently picked is clearly playing as instructed and it just backs up the eye test as to what we are trying to do. Like you, this style isn't for me however I'd like to think Frank isn't going anywhere anytime soon therefore the current issues/areas to work on are our wingers:

It's clear that it's all about getting it out wide and chucking the ball into the box. Therefore the productivity of our wingers has to improve. I agree that having Solanke in the box will help, but it's not like our forwards have been missing a bucket load of chances - all in all our creation from out wide has been poor.

Kudus who is clearly our best winger has 1 goal and 4 assists in 11 games, that's hardly great. He is on many occasions being double marked therefore Frank should be looking at exploiting the space we have elsewhere when the focus of the opposition is clearly on stopping Kudus. But at the same time Kudus needs to be better in his decision making of what to do with the ball in the final third knowing that he is usually double marked.

On the other side Odobert is showing some skill, but very little end product. Hopefully and I'm sure he is, Frank is working on improving Odobert in that area. But as I think @thfcsteff has said previously for this to work it really needs a quality left winger to get on board. Who on earth are we expecting to score our goals right now? Johnson for all his limitations papered over the cracks last season, our attackers still just are not producing and as much as we hope Frank improves the likes of Kudus, Odobert, Tel and whoever else I can't help but feel we need more significant investment for this to work....
 
harr1984 said:
Any player that is consistently picked is clearly playing as instructed and it just backs up the eye test as to what we are trying to do. Like you, this style isn't for me however I'd like to think Frank isn't going anywhere anytime soon therefore the current issues/areas to work on are our wingers:

It's clear that it's all about getting it out wide and chucking the ball into the box. Therefore the productivity of our wingers has to improve. I agree that having Solanke in the box will help, but it's not like our forwards have been missing a bucket load of chances - all in all our creation from out wide has been poor.

Kudus who is clearly our best winger has 1 goal and 4 assists in 11 games, that's hardly great. He is on many occasions being double marked therefore Frank should be looking at exploiting the space we have elsewhere when the focus of the opposition is clearly on stopping Kudus. But at the same time Kudus needs to be better in his decision making of what to do with the ball in the final third knowing that he is usually double marked.

On the other side Odobert is showing some skill, but very little end product. Hopefully and I'm sure he is, Frank is working on improving Odobert in that area. But as I think @thfcsteff has said previously for this to work it really needs a quality left winger to get on board. Who on earth are we expecting to score our goals right now? Johnson for all his limitations papered over the cracks last season, our attackers still just are not producing and as much as we hope Frank improves the likes of Kudus, Odobert, Tel and whoever else I can't help but feel we need more significant investment for this to work....
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You're hitting the tickle my balls with a feather. Frankly our attackers are mediocre and there's this inbuilt need to be positive that stops so many just seeing the truth. None of this is new, we had the exact same problems last season but so many are blinded but really simple things and that need to be blindly positive.

Frank can improve players but he's not a magician. Far too much is being expected in terms of development improvement. We actually need to sign better.
 
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