People need to stop looking at the end and ask how to solve that problem.
Rather - start at the beginning and asked what caused the problem and how to avoid it.
Best way to fight fire is to prevent fire. If you are always fighting fires you get burned from time to time.
Rather - start at the beginning and asked what caused the problem and how to avoid it.
Best way to fight fire is to prevent fire. If you are always fighting fires you get burned from time to time.
https://twitter.com/excelonman/status/1445346152849813504
If Henderson is essentially starting fires in our midfield - and I honestly don't know a more apt way to describe what happened against City - then surely the onus is on finding a way to stop that happening rather than complain that Fabinho isn't great when in a forest fire.
If you have Fabinho in your time - you already KNOW he isn't a lateral player. So if you are putting him in a team where he has to cover laterally because the rest of the midfield get caught ahead of the ball it is just setting him up to fail.
Hence why I said you cannot play
Hence why I said you cannot play
Fabinho + Henderson.
Fabinho isn't going to get better covering the pitch laterally. He just isn't a Mascherano or Kante. Same way as Alonso couldn't and was paired with a Masch or Sissoko.
If Masch/Sissoko's legs went and Alonso has to start covering the width of the pitch
Fabinho isn't going to get better covering the pitch laterally. He just isn't a Mascherano or Kante. Same way as Alonso couldn't and was paired with a Masch or Sissoko.
If Masch/Sissoko's legs went and Alonso has to start covering the width of the pitch
you have a problem. The problem isn't Alonso though - it is the fact the person who is his 'legs' no longer has those legs. And I don't know if this is a temporary thing with Hendo or not - but his legs aren't getting him to where he needs to be right now.
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