In THIS match valverde wanted the RB to be in very advanced positions for long periods of the match, Because of alaves's organized block and their reluctance to go forward and open spaces, My point is that semedo hasn't encountered anything like this while in benfica as a RB, Being asked to stand very forward almost along the same lines with the forwarders for long periods ,Sergi or even if it was vidal, Are much comfortable with that, As roberto already played a RB for us for an entire season, And vidal is a natural winger, A natural RB like semedo will never be suddenly feel at home with the eccentric way our full backs operate and stay up the pitch for prolong periods of time, Something that is with time and experience he'll get the hang of it, That's my whole point, I don't know why this turned into a rocket-science debate.
And i even said, That if this were against another la liga team that was willing to attack more, Or if we had our suarez and neymar replacement present, Then valverde would've put semedo in the line-up, As sergi+vidal is unbalanced and just suicidal, But our hands were a bit forced in this match.
