He's been awful in a lot of games so far and he is part of this unbalanced awful midfield.
No Knee jerk
absolutely overrated by our own fans. Gives the ball away so many times, can't win headers, positioning is poor hence that's why he picks up so many yellow cards. Doesn't even have a decent shot on him, how many goals did he score? 1 in what 7 years? don't give me this ''oh it's not his role'' argument, some DMs offer something going forward.
Look at that partnership over the years and rate how good the midfield was.
Mascherano - Lucas partnership in 09/10 - the most one dimensional partnership in the league, one of the reasons we finished 7th.
Gerrard - Lucas partnership - never that good was it?
Now Can - Lucas - Henderson - how is that going so far?
and he wasn't even a key midfielder when we almost won the league.
He is also absolutely slow at the turn and doesn't recover when he loses the ball. First half he was bad, kept giving the ball away like Henderson and Can. No creativity in our midfield and he is one of the reasons why.
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