Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
But why play Zin and not Rice? whatever you think of Rice, he's at least not the disaster area that Zin is
Because Zinchenko is technically better than Rice, Zinchenko like Xhaka is an infuriating player but has the ability to be creative when not idling about. Rice is surplus to requirements in a game like this…Zinchenko as awful as he is more likely to get the game to open up. And the statistics bare out that Martinelli sees more of the ball when Zinchenko plays.

There’s no sense in worrying about defending because we will concede no matter what we do. But we need to be able to hold onto the ball and bring it forward