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Over the years we’ve all seen the value of a good interaction between right back and right winger or whatever variation of wide men we’ve gone with. Right now -and for some time- we’ve had none of that. Zero. An absolute number of assists or chances created is nice if you can get it, but less important than what that dangerous width creates in terms of space for the rest of the team and forcing the oppo defence to play you honestly across the whole back line. The way we play is too easy to defend against. Full backs know to show our right inside and our left outside, every time. |
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The thing with Valencia is that his strengths -workrate, strength and dependability- kind of blind you to his weaknesses. It’s almost as though there’s always another priority somewhere else -usually some shitbag who’s not pulling his weight- so what should have been a stop-gap ends up lasting years. I’ve forgotten what it’s like to even have specialist full backs. |
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