I know this is a classic, ''wait until a bad game and then come into the player's thread to write some negative stuff'', but the lad just did not convince me at all ever since the start of the season.
Sure, he'll have the odd good performance, but its usually against teams that give him plenty of space and time on the ball. Very slow in his decision making, requires an awful long time to figure out what he's gonna do with the ball. On top of that he ends up making the wrong choice most of the time with the natural end to a sequence where he receives the ball being a waste of possession. All of this is frustrating, but his defensive and pressing contributions, which are a couple of notches (at least) below the rest of the midfielders is what truly gets me. If it is true that you only need one player to be off in terms of pressing for the whole system to crumble then, today, Gravenberch took care of that. Jogging around, can't put in a tackle, not arsed to sprint.
Truly, I have nothing against him, but more often than not, him being in the starting lineup is a waste of space. Until he puts some heart and evergy in his display, he's last in the pecking order for those positions in midfield and by a mile as far as I'm concerned
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