I’ve seen enough to be honest. He could go on to completely change my mind for the best, but I wouldn’t bother not seeing him in the team next season.
Kounde showed some promising signs here and there in the beginning… Gattoni showed 0 promising signs so far.
Short (for a modern day CB), physically weak, bad positioning, stupid interceptions/tackling, shaky, lack of pace… no positive signs.
He’s played 36 minutes this season…
Great goal from Salas, really good header and how he managed to fall by kicking his own leg and the var and ref managed to see it as a Brereton foul is also incredible if it wasn’t la liga.
Looks like we are on an upward spiral but the results are still lagging behind a bit. That gives me hope that when we eventually turn it around, we are able to continue on a really good streak of positive results and end the season decently.
There is not much more room for slipping up and eating mud tho. Turning point needs to come very very soon.
Again… no positive signs at all. Maybe that’s the reason he has played this little?
We surely don’t expect to give a crap CB 500 minutes before making an assessment. For crap or semi-crap we already have Nianzou and Gudelj, that should be enough in that department.
I saw a stat at the end of the tv coverage. Team with most centres this season, Sevilla 490 producing 7 goals. !!!
Team with second most centres, Villarreal 370.
The problem is that our crosses are poor and if they actually arrive in the danger zones En Nesyri doesn’t know where to position himself, middle, near post or far post, and he’s invariably the only one there.
Funny you say that as all around me they are always shouting for someone to get to the back post on crosses, or someone making a run into the box give extra options. We don’t and cannot because we don’t have players capable of doing this and we always run out of steam around 60 minutes due to the cripples we have that run out of puff!!
EN-Nes seems to just stand around waiting for that cross to come and land just above him, there is little movement too, he’s basically a static or instinct striker, when he has time to think he generally fluffs it…
Crossing is the style that requires the least amount of tactics, besides maybe long balling. Because a defense can almost never play as wide to never allow crosses. It just requires decent possession to build up to a cross or people running/overlapping to the side (least dangerous area to defend) and whip it in.
Anything else requires more skill, strategy and tactics.
Our strikers make involving the central area in our play extremely complicated. It will only become a possibility if a midfielder or winger runs into that area or space.
Giménez for example would make combining possible and help for more diverse attacking. He’s out of reach but as an example.
Our team dynamics especially midfield have been the same for so long, but this year at least something happened. Hoping next window is as fruitful as summer (3 positive additions) and we are almost refreshed enough to move on from the past years.