Originally Posted by
HCZ_Reborn
I’m not Tierney’s biggest fan, I think he’s injured far too often…and when he’s fit it takes far too long for his form to hit the peak of what we can expect from him.
That he has been superseded by Zinchenko is utterly absurd. Zinchenko works only if you’re dominating on the ball and even then his tendency to take too many touches and give the ball away in dangerous areas is troublesome. And that’s before getting into the fact that he’s a horrendously big liability when we don’t have the ball…and doesn’t even seem to understand what the role of a left back is.
His purchase was made on the hubristic assumption that no matter who we play we would dominate possession, well we are not going to dominate possession away from home against city, Liverpool or arguably Tottenham, Chelsea, Newcastle. We simply do not have the central midfield for that…and against City we are never going to control possession whether home or away they are just too good for that…it’s like expecting to control possession against Guardiola’s Barcelona team or Guardiola’s Bayern team.
We didn’t need an inverted left back, we needed a player who would sit deeper when we didn’t have the ball and be able to tackle and put in a shift more consistently than Granit Xhaka appears willing or able to do.