I like the lad but is there a more inconsistent player in the squad?
Probably best if he leaves for Juve.
I like him too. Think for him the main issue is the system / role he is being asked to play. He just doesn't have the tactical intelligence and positional / spatial awareness needed to play that position in a pressing side like ours. Henderson has the same issue sometimes, but far less often.
For the first goal today he completely loses Rodriguez and is too late. That's one of his biggest flaws, he just doesn't track runners, he doesn't sense the danger as people like to say, when opposition players move into the pockets of space to his left or right.
For the second goal he presses Krychowiak and he gets beaten far, far too easily which leaves a sh*t ton of space in behind him. Chamberlain does well and takes over the position, but he then completely forgets to track Rodriguez who is in that zone and ends up scoring. Klopp must be absolutely fuming at this goal, so many things went wrong in terms of pressing, picking up positions, picking up opposition players and just allround a lack of communication it seems.
Call me crazy, but I think he'd do far better at Juventus or even Bayern (in Vidal's role for example) where the systems / tactics they use are far less based on movement, picking up positions, rotating in midfield etc. He excels in games where he is given a kind of a free role (the City game for example where Wijnaldum and Chamberlain covered for him a lot of the time while he went pressing and made runs) or in games where he is given a very specific role (Away against the mancs with Fellaini last season for example).
He's a great option to have in the squad, but he's not a starter for me.
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