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Often looks like the only one who really understands what it takes to break through these solid defences or maybe just the only one with the guts to try and do it. Maybe they don't always work out but you NEED those quick first time passes and unexpected moves. Rest of the team seem to think...

still just 23. realized i had lost sense of how old he was and defaulted to 25 but was happily surprised.

He's drifting around like a third cb half the time and the other half he's either fouling people unnecessarily, getting ran past or just nowhere near where he's supposed to be

gotta be fucking kidding me. KOEMAN THE MAN CAN'T RUN WHAT ARE YOU DOING

There are some basic minimal requirements of movement and physicality to play top level football and he just falls comically short.

It's a joke. This guy wouldn't be starting for any other club in the top five leagues.

Just not involved enough in the game. Not so much his fault. The way he's postioned, he has to pick his moments instead of plugging into the general flow of our game. Wish we'd go back to a 4-3-3 where he could start from midfield and run into offensive spaces instead of being positioned up...

Missed penalty is really not a fluke. This pretty much has always been his level of finishing.

It was comical watching him try to sprint. Looked like how I jog from the bathroom when my legs have gone asleep after a 30 minutes shit.

Team fell apart completely when he came off. He's essential.

Not liking this setup. We have essentially only one player that can make deep offensive runs. Result as expected is a whole lot of half-way attacks squandering the momentum. Dest can play the wingback role but Alba is way too limited in the fundamentals of playmaking to be this high up.

Alba crosses incoming

Really don't think so. We have loads of space and time around the box.

Yes Alba's crosses are terrible but we're never going to score if the players in the box just stand around like they know the cross is bad beforehand.

pretty incredible that we were discussing whether to play 2 or 3 decidedly offensive players under Valverde and now we're starting 5.

watched it 17 times and didn't see a viable option for an endgame pass. our lack of killer instinct isn't just in the finishing, it's in the movement too

He would do well in the current Frenkie position, unmoored from the pivot free to roam forward.

Exactly. I think it helped us out tremendously how he came down and received the ball from Ter Stegen or the CBs when we couldn't play it out. He's so good at receiving it with a man in his back and getting turned around. An essential part of playing possession based football that we've lacked...

Excellent economics of time and space with this guy. Does that Iniesta thing of making difficult things look easy. A joy to watch.

Konrad makes these runs as well. I feel like this forum is blinded by the fact that we haven't played with real wingers for so long so that they get euphoric as soon as someone makes the most basic winger runs.