I acknowledged Raphinha has those wasteful games in 2 posts before. But in terms of wanting for type of mf of yesterday having best chances of not being overrun, Raphinha would be player with highest priority of availability. This likely would already change if Pedri were part of yesterdays mf. If it’s a situation in where there are already enough players out there collectively meeting certain threshold of off ball movement other players skillset will become missed more.
None of that is about Raphinha being wasteful. All of the attackers can be as play such a high risk/reward game.
The games mentioned were v worse teams than Atletico who should have scored a lot more than did and took Garcia being MOTM to stop it.
Raphinha being there and still had largely same issues at end of last season and this.
As said the drop is also Raphinha to Rashford to then a player out of position and weakening other areas of team.
Game like this has been coming with and without Raphinha.
The extent to which him playing would stop it is over played as shown in other games but he is clearly missed as any first team starter would be with some more than others.
