Studentofthegame

@Millitant0 @EmiSmithShowe Stop lying to yourself man, everton should've been out of sight at half time x.com/Studentoft1369…

@EmiSmithShowe Yep we had 25 shots and 40 touches in their box with a half-fit Havertz up top, those are very positive signs we just need to persist with it once Eze is back

People point to how we couldn't create against Everton with this lineup. I'm saying this is the best buildup and final third play we've had in MONTHS. Sometimes a Sean Dyche team just defends well.

@pziegler1986 @EmiSmithShowe Everton should've had 4/5 goals before we created anything meaningful, deluded

@EmiSmithShowe You mean Moyes. I thought we were *really* good vs Everton. They defended like mad men.

@KNCurOm @boredtactico @AJ__SR7 @oluok1 You have the mentality of a kid

Nonzino replaces Ebs in skillset value and flow rn

@pedroelchileno @Dezildezzzz We had all the qualities you ask for in partey, he could break the press by himself now we need 2 players that can interchange within thr double pivot or from 6-8, likely we sign tonali i think, gives us physicality and dlp qualities and creativity in final 3rd perfect for zubi

Dead is a word used to describe "not efficient" in today's football. Qualities of a DLP are not enough to play in the pivot. There is no player today that can support all the burden to create the situation where a DLP can have the ball in zones 5 and 8 with space and facing forward to perform as it should.

The DLP role is dead. Your DLP should be your CB or FB. Your DM needs to be a tactical genius, with no passing angle bias, able to combine and move and able to carry. His positioning needs to be impeccable on and off the ball. And of course he needs to be able to defend in a double pivot. The amount of capabilities required for the role makes it very difficult to find in 1 player, and a combination of 2 or 3 players is the ideal. Barca has it solved with Frankie + Pedri (And Bernal + Gavi are very strong as well) Madrid doesn’t and can’t do Camavinga + Tchouameni which is why they are using Thiago and Guler doing the rounds to get the capabilities required. Arsenal has it solved with 3 players in Rice + Zubi + Ode, and I think Rice + Zubi is also very strong alone, but not perfect. The pass to a DM facing backwards for him to turn under pressure and create is dead. You can have the best in history at this and it would not be consistently effective in the league. This makes our midfield construction a bit different than what we where building. Rice is perfect. Zubi is 90% perfect. Ode is perfect in paper but angle bias and defending in a double pivot makes him a 3rd CM/CAM and not a DP player. We need to complement these 3 and while I thought before we needed to increase in strong carriers, we also need to balance it out with another profile. So, I won’t use MLS or Merino in our 6 player midfield because I think they are the perfect 24th and 25th players for the squad as they play multiple roles and cover multiple areas and are specialist tactical weapons deployable across the board. Key players but not necessarily main starters (even though they can be), and will always be useful independent of the route we take tactically. Rice Zubimendi Odegaard Eze This is the core. Noorgard is OK, useful for a season or 2 while we build, but eventually should be replaced with a Rice like profile, b2b/DM with physical attributes and good quality on the ball. There are plenty of players here to look for and it seems Bouaddi is one of our targets, which I would support, and it fits the defacing of Noorgard. Although Pablo Barrios would be my main target here. But the other player, where I thought we should sign a “pass first” type of DM, I know think we should have a “move first” type of player to complement the Rice type. This would make me prioritize an Anderson over a Wharton for example (although we are probably looking an alternative player to Zubi and not a 100m target like these guys). It would make me prioritize a Valentin Barco over a Hugo Larsson, or a Mendoza over a Pavlovic. Warren Zaire Emery, Joao Neves, Mainoo all on that same profile but probably not achievable.

@Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii And i don't expect you to agree, you're deluded, across the board the common consensus is the clear drop off in quality this season both in the quality of football, and across all the big teams, city beat us and win game in hand its 3 points, you're living in denial

@Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii Its the worst league in the last decade and everton and Brentford pushing for europe proves that, both were fighting relegation earlier in the season, you're literally making no point man, we've struggled through most games thats why we've made it a title race

5'9 basque coward has this PNP machine rotting on the bench cuz he'd rather have his adopted son from the same ends as him

@lesbourbon @peteryrn @w_bravel @Ellis_ Yeh man if they're both not elite then they must be "shit", you're right this app is a cesspit and its because fans are clueless and emotional, case jn point

@Studentoft1369 @peteryrn @w_bravel @Ellis_ Of course, everyone is shit in this cesspit app

Anderson is way better than Rice and has outperformed him all season yet only one of them is in Premier League POTY debates. Big club bias is actually so disgusting.

@dasdghyk27 @WFAFOOTBALL14 You want us to have 2 players that are basic in possession playing next ti each other?? The standard for fan understanding and depth of knowledge is non existent, you literally want us to become burnley 💀💀

@WFAFOOTBALL14 Eveverybody tbh. I would even play norgaard over him next to Rice. Why would i start a box to box mid next to a holding mid/another box to box mid? Are you out of your mind?

Genuinely trying to think of who I would pick in the prem over him to play next to Deccers, and I can’t think of anyone other than Caicedo.

@WFAFOOTBALL14 Comments like this confirm how lost fans are, caicedo and rice double pivot, just long ball 100% of the time, morons

@Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii And fans have been positive, our performances have been going downhill for over a year now and we create virtually nothing, its just delusion to be positive looking at the clear deterioration of our perfoming and results this season, we play negative, has knock on effect

@Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii Your first sentence is just deflection, we have been far too inconsistent in what is a poor quality prem and thats why there's a title race, city are incredibly inconsistent too, the league should've been wrapped up, its 3 points of we lose at etihad, after sunday seems likely

@KeittKooken @Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii Have to assume that at this stage of the season, naive not to

@Studentoft1369 @Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii 6pts stop assuming they winning the game in hand

@lesbourbon @peteryrn @w_bravel @Ellis_ You don't know what that means mate 😂

@Studentoft1369 @peteryrn @w_bravel @Ellis_ They’re both elite

@ryantaylormtg @__Oladele___ @Arsenal_rep1 Thats what they tell you, its called propaganda, they know fans don't have the intelligence and awareness to make up their own minds, its not just zubimendi lol 5 midfielders have been scapegoated to protect rice and now our football is horrific, because he's average otb

@Studentoft1369 @__Oladele___ @Arsenal_rep1 its clear as day that rice has been carrying the midfield both defensively and offensively, making up for zubi’s inadequacy. its just insane to not acknowledge and say the opposite.

Zubimendi just made me realize why Ødegaard was always coming deep to start build up play

@Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii Like you literally see how inconsistent city gave been, Liverpool and Chelsea are a joke, utd changed manager halfway through, there should be no challengers and yet here we are

@Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii Nobody said its easy, but we literally shouldn't have sny challengers, we've made it the case because we have consistently dropped points snd scraped through games for majority of the season, should've blown the league away with how poor everyone else is

@slaywlrdsoldier @Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii Literally lol, one of most inconsistent city teams anyone can remember might be within 3 points come May, thats shambolic looking at the opportunities they gave us throughout the season

@Seanwalsh97 @Studentoft1369 @Solo9iii It should’ve been lol who are u competing against? An inconsistent City and an even more inconsistent Liverpool?

@Seanwalsh97 @Solo9iii Yes we have tried to make it a title race, league should've been wrapped up ages ago, its like you've forgotten our results january/February, city should be nowhere near, had the chance to make 11 point lead multiple times around the turn of the year

@Studentoft1369 @Solo9iii Trying our best to make it a title race? Did you think it was going to be a walk in the park?

@RilwanOmar51238 @sladeofhand @ixnafc @oluok1 @chiddyafc "Title parade" you live in Germany 😂

@RilwanOmar51238 @sladeofhand @ixnafc @oluok1 @chiddyafc We've looked suspect for months and should've had title wrapped up by now, there's nothing miserable about that, its just the truth, fact you need to lie when being told the truth is delusion, have a good one

Drawing with forest and hammers is smelling blood now