Brwned
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Aye I intentionally left him out as I don’t think he should be in the starting 11 ahead of any of those lot, I think I rate him quite a lot lower than most here do. But he really does the work of 2 men just like Bruno, so if you have those both in the team I don’t worry at all about our pressing game.Don’t forget Cavani. Regularly makes more of an effort to track back and tackle than players a decade younger. Here’s hoping Greenwood et al pay more attention to his defensive diligence than the player who took his shirt number.
It might be the case that if we do prove to be ridiculously leaky he kicks Greenwood out of the team for his work rate alone. That could be absolutely key for this teams development, and in general I think Cavani’s character has a big influence in the team - just in the background.
I don’t think it’s the kind of thing you can learn from another player, Cavani’s just a warrior while Greenwood’s very chilled, you don’t tend to change your nature to emulate another individual.
But I do think it’s something that can be instilled as a kind of team dynamic and expectation, if that becomes the only thing holding you back from staying in the team then you do sort of forget about your personal nature and submit, and after a while it becomes infectious.
We’ve definitely seen it a lot in Guardiola teams, and once they move out of that dynamic they go back to their usual nature. It just seems very far away from the kind of approach Ole takes. Sir Alex too.
Agree with you that we generally had hard workers on the wing but he never really moulded players that way, he just picked players with that in them. He demanded a lot from folks but also was very keen on individualism. We’ve probably gone too far in that direction with this team so we’ll be pulling our hair out (Bruno’s guaranteed to go manic at points!) but at least it’ll be fun too!