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He's dominating our midfield.
We don't have a midfield today.
He's dominating our midfield.
What a bleak future that would be.Get him. Him and McTomminey in midfield should give us the needed tenacity and work rate we need. Then we can even afford play an "artist" alongside them.
What a bleak future that would be.
His fitness levels and determination are really impressive.
Yes. He's a decent ball winner and his ability on the ball is no better than any other average PL midfielder. His talent has been massively blown out of proportion. Your issue is using Matic as a yard stick. The bloke has been shot for over a year. We struggle to create now, having Mctominay and Rice together would be so underwhelming.Why? Did you ever watch him play? The guy can actually play a good opening pass compared to Matic who takes ages these days to do anything. A midfield trio with two hard workers who aren't completely shit at opening play and a truly creative outlet would imo work splendidly for us. Pogba bith those two protecting his back would be amazing imo. If we can add to that an attacking trident on with the quality of Liverpools there is no need to think this would be a bleak looking team.
Yes. He's a decent ball winner and his ability on the ball is no better than any other average PL midfielder. His talent has been massively blown out of proportion. Your issue is using Matic as a yard stick. The bloke has been shot for over a year. We struggle to create now, having Mctominay and Rice together would be so underwhelming.
Maybe you are right and someone like Neves/Bruno Fernandes instead of Rice would be better going forward but we also have a serious problem of being passed by in midfield, I feel we need two players midfield 3 who can actually shield the defense and McTomminey with a bit of development looks like a player who can have some attacking impact.
The problem that I simply have with two mainly creative players in our central three midfielders is that it would only work if we played like City and I don't see Ole as the type of manager who implement such a playing style.
This.
We need a player like Neves or a controller of the tempo of the game played by having someone like Rice doing the grit & dirty work.
Think his passing is really good, in that he weights his passes very well.
Thought he was the best midfielder today and we needed someone like him
Matic is the reason why we are so easily bypassed in midfield. Today, we simply didn't have a defensive midfielder. Sort out our DM and we can then afford to play someone like Neves, who puts in a shift anyway.Maybe you are right and someone like Neves/Bruno Fernandes instead of Rice would be better going forward but we also have a serious problem of being passed by in midfield, I feel we need two players midfield 3 who can actually shield the defense and McTomminey with a bit of development looks like a player who can have some attacking impact.
The problem that I simply have with two mainly creative players in our central three midfielders is that it would only work if we played like City and I don't see Ole as the type of manager who implement such a playing style.
McTominayRice, Pogba and Saul would be a decent midfield.