Wait, when casemiro is back, then you will rather use gore or hannibal?
Of course it matters
If Scholes was in there you'd play the ball into him, expect him to play through midfield. When you pass it into midfield and Amrabat has a 1 in 2 chance to not find a teammate of course you're not going to try and play through as much. Despite that Mainoo was starting most good things we didIt's not lethargy. Lethargy is laziness. The lad's not lazy, he's got a good attitude. It's just that he's physically incapable of covering the ground that he needs to cover. Which is a problem for a Premier league midfielder.
Not to be pedantic but lethargy is not attributed to lazyness. Its feeling or looking tired and can be down to many reasons. In his case he's stocky and everything looks a lot of effort for him, despite his good intentions.
We don't try to deploy one
This. He seems to be growing into it the last few weeks but I don’t know if he’s athletic enough for what we need. I think he’d be grand in Europe playing at a slower pace. He was one of our more dogged players today in a game that dogged play got us a draw. Nobody was good on the ball for us. If we had more composure we could have picked them off
this. Thank you
I'd want mainoo and case starting in the deep spots.
It's not bizarre and anyone who's watched him this season has been saying the same. He's slow of the mark, players get past him comfortably and he's not a great passer. Put him under pressure and he invariably loses it. He's positionally disciplined but that's about it. An average player, can't fault his attitude, but doesn't really have the skills to be a regular CM for any top side in the PL.
Being equally pedantic, I looked up "lethargy" and it said "lack of energy and enthusiasm".
Yes, I said he LOOKS lethargic. He doesn't look like he has energy when he runs, it's very leggy. Like he's just run a marathon or eaten a full meal. That's not an unfair observation. Hes terribly slow, takes ages to turn and makes cheap pull backs because he looks knackered every time a player runs past him.
100%.
Or he needs to take a shite before a game?
Who knows. But he's not the standard with these big flaws.
I think that's because a significant portion of the posters here are fans of individual players rather than the team. You can see a pretty good example of that in the Hojlund thread.
That one clip against Mbappe is funny because the rest of the game, Mbappe was mugging him off, Amrabat fell over trying to chase him at around 1.20, let Mbappe waltz past him for the second goal and then gets nutmegged at 3.36. But, yeah he tracked back once when Mbappe was slowing down to cross the ball.
