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Moussa Sissoko

Very good game yesterday and saved Trippiers arse on several occasions, Sanchez was my MOM but Sissoko was not far behind.
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
I think those assuming Sissoko is just covering Trippier who is so terrible he is out of position are... wrong.

Poch is far to astute to allow something like that to continue game after game.

Far more likely, IMO, its a deliberate tactic. In so much as, Trippier presses very high upfield and Sissoko covers.

I wont try and argue its been working especially well, but I do think its a purposeful action being employed.

Sissoko is a very good defensive workhorse, Trippier is not.

Trippier does have genuine quality on the ball and can effect our attacking play, Sissoko does not.

Seems pretty obvious to set up to take advantage of both of these things, doesnt it?
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As much as you won't like to admit it, Sissoko does have genuine quality on the ball these days and does affect our attacking play. If you speak more specifically about crossing from the channels Trippier is definitely better. But in the middle of the park Sissoko is absolutely involved in our attacking play. I would go further to say for all Trippier's quality with crossing and dead ball situations, Sissoko has probably had a greater impact in attack than he has.
 
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nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
I thought he was very good yesterday. Have no real complaints about his performance.

Of course Id like to see more positive passing from him, but yesterday was probably as good as Ive seen him in this respect.

Best performance since Chelsea when he played a very different role IMO.

Im with Scara on the clearance, theres no way thats exactly what he meant. Most likely it was a case of clearing to an area and thats that. But he played if very well, saw the ball coming, shaped nicely and played it right into that area.

I think even his biggest fan wouldnt credit him with the vision and technique to see an execute that pass from that position though!
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It was clearly a pass. There is no way that he meant anything other than putting Son in on goal. There’s no way he was just clearing into an area.

See how ridiculous it is to talk in absolutes here? Neither you or I can know Sissoko’s intentions with that ball. However the previous opinion that you (and Scara) have formed, religiously stuck to and now probably feel a little foolish in continuing to do, lead you into ridiculous statements like yours above.
 
scaramanga said:
It's nothing to do with bias - I'd be calling it a hoof if Messi had done that. There's no way in that situation that any player attempts a pinpoint, curled pass between two opponents, into the path of Son. No matter how accurate you know you can be, it's just too risky.

I've no doubt that we would have trained with Son lining up either on the same side every time, or on the side from which the ball is coming every time. I've also no doubt that the players have been told that in those situations, there's a 20x20 area in that rough part of the pitch where clearances will give Son a chance to run onto the ball. But there's no way any of our players were tasked with a pass like that intentionally and there's no way Sissoko did that.
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Why was that pass risky? We had every player other than Son behind the ball?
 
Some find it really difficult to change their mind and see it as a sign of weakness.
I think it’s a real sign of strength.
 
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Finney Is Back said:
Why was that pass risky? We had every player other than Son behind the ball?
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Because the two Leicesters that stood to pick the ball up were in about 10 yards of space. They'd have all the time in the world to pick a pass or a shot if needed.

At best we would have had to coordinate closing them both quite quickly - something that becomes very high risk in turnover situations (as we know to our advantage) as people tend to lose who should be marking whom.
 
scaramanga said:
Because the two Leicesters that stood to pick the ball up were in about 10 yards of space. They'd have all the time in the world to pick a pass or a shot if needed.

At best we would have had to coordinate closing them both quite quickly - something that becomes very high risk in turnover situations (as we know to our advantage) as people tend to lose who should be marking whom.
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We had every player other than Son behind the ball.
 
scaramanga said:
Because the two Leicesters that stood to pick the ball up were in about 10 yards of space. They'd have all the time in the world to pick a pass or a shot if needed.

At best we would have had to coordinate closing them both quite quickly - something that becomes very high risk in turnover situations (as we know to our advantage) as people tend to lose who should be marking whom.
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A shot?.... They were about 45 yards out. The best they could’ve done was lifted one into our penalty area.
 
Finney Is Back said:
A shot?.... They were about 45 yards out. The best they could’ve done was lifted one into our penalty area.
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The rest of our team was on the edge of our box - they had all the space in the world.

Give any PL player that much space (except maybe Sissoko) and they can do pretty much anything with the ball.
 
scaramanga said:
Because the two Leicesters that stood to pick the ball up were in about 10 yards of space. They'd have all the time in the world to pick a pass or a shot if needed.

At best we would have had to coordinate closing them both quite quickly - something that becomes very high risk in turnover situations (as we know to our advantage) as people tend to lose who should be marking whom.
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If they could pick a pass they wouldn’t be Leicester players
 
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