ForestRGoinUp
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Are you going to do that thing where if someone presents players who have .3 fewer tackles/interceptions you say that's not as good as Herrera? Because there are several players who play for teams lower in the table (Ndidi, Gueye, Romeu, Xhaka even) that have comparable or in some cases better defensive stats. Herrera is not comparable with Fernandinho or Kante or increasingly Fabinho, who take the ball away at similar rates but offer more for their teams in other ways than Herrera does. And numbers between Herrera and Kante don't tell the story. Kante has been a feature on 2 title winning teams and a World Cup winning team. Herrera isn't getting call ups to his national team.Herrera isn’t a fashionable player, and therefore the ridiculous levels of work rate and his unrivalled defensive contribution are either entirely ignored or devalued. Instead, people want to talk about his passing range or his goal tally. For a ball winning midfielder, which is what he is, his technical ability is more than good enough, and I encourage someone to present me with a player who wins the ball back as often as he does, while having better technical ability. He facilitates so much of the good we do as a side, and it’s no surprise that when he isn’t about we struggle to cope we decent oppposing midfielders.