Lash
Full Member
Yeah, he is a prime example of pace and strength doing the defending, rather that positioning and assessing the situation in front of him.Was having this discussion with my mate yesterday about Yedlin. I watched him in the MLS with Seattle where he stood out a country mile. There were times when he controlled games from RB the way Dani Alves did at Sevilla. So when he moved to spurs I was excited to see him as he came at a time when the roll of the full back was changing and he seemed to have everything in his locker. This also coincided with your standard left winger being right footed and always cutting inside, which Yedlin literally never had to defend against once in the MLS. He was so effective because any ball in behind, he would be first to it. But the reason he got punted from spurs to Sunderland so fast was that he has absolutely no idea how to stop a player from cutting inside. I watched him one on one v martial a few times last night and he was showing him inside. What he should be doing is showing players down the line because that’s where he is effective. He can’t tackle with his left foot properly, and has a much stronger left shoulder barge than a right (like a lot of people) yet he has no tactical understanding of how to force an attacker into a space where he can actually do what he’s good at.
Short explanation, he lacks the basic understanding of what the right back role is defensively and we should steer clear.