I went back and watched a compilation of his best aspects of the game (shouldn't usually be how you judge a performance), and it occurred to me, Frenkie played passes that allowed others to receive the ball to then actually do something. It made sense why he filled up the stat sheet, PARTICULARLY on a side where Yamal was the focus. He played the pass to Olmo where he tried to wriggle a chance and almost did it. So then I wondered, why did none of these things register during my viewing. I personally believe that these passes had very little risk and were very dependent on what the receiver did with the ball. Pedri has passes like those but he also has the pass to Raphina for a headed assist to Ferran. No matter which way I try to give Frenkie credit, everything I've seen is the delegation of the responsibility to someone else to ACTUALLY create. If we take the position and assume Frenkie's role isn't chance creation, which would be a fairly decent critique, and we look at ball retention, then Frenkie had a great game, but knowing how our pivot operates, I don't think it has ever been his role to not create especially considering the positions he takes up every game.
