@ThatGooner

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Next up is the mercurial Malick Fofana. Not only has his output caught the eye but so has his playing style. Here's my look at the winger's electric dribbling, awareness, some restrictive weaker foot over-usage, and much more. tinyurl.com/MalickFofana
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Rice was surprisingly standoffish in a lot of these kinds of moments yesterday where you expect him to jump on the player in space, especially once they've committed to facing away from what he was covering. Bruno's absence from going box to box didn't help but it's hard not to
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Not saying on another day he gets across and denies the goal bc it's a perfect finish, but even within the defence, there was a lot of hesitation in jumping onto players in front since Rice wasn't on top of it and there was a lot of fear created in the constant runs beyond in
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the halfspaces. Just not trusting one another fully. On another day, equally maybe they don't nail two long distance shots and it's a different story, so don't want to be overly outcome biased, but it was at least alarming to see that sort of time and space afforded in front.
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I'm surprised we had better xG because their corner chances were really strong, but I'm not surprised we outdid them in open play. Had a handful of situations where we were incredibly wasteful, whereas their first major open play opening came right at the very end.
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Or chance, rather. Obviously the better team and had a lot more situations approaching potentially big open play chances, but we created them better than they did, we just weren't good in front of goal today at all.
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Gyök? Why are we trying to handicap ourselves even more?
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Been properly schooled this half
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Rare of this version of us to have come out with even less response in a 2nd half of a losing battle
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If we were going to put Rice at RB, we should've brought on MLS bc they're not slowing down in the press whatsoever
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Also little moments where we held ourselves back in attack and defence that hurt us that half. Second guessing our marking of halfspace runs leaving too much space in front of the defence centrally, and not enough committed runs and movement beyond the player receiving the ball.
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we've been so good at sustaining pressure in tight spaces down the right, as well as being dangerous in congestion. Have to back ourselves more against their pressure and lean into those congested areas, bc coming back out and playing to the underloads is too beneficial to them
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with how well they've pressed out onto us whenever we've used our left as a breather, esp since we're not spreading it there and actually hurting them. I like Tzolis but if Leo were on, he'd be doing a fair bit more damage in these isolated duels and actually be buying time+space
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This was much more a game for MLS. Their man to man press has been all over us, been crying out for stuff to break it open and haven't had any of what we get from MLS in those situations centrally. Also only getting hints of threats in behind when the isolated duels out wide
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are key exploitation areas. Just not seeing us pair up and rotate vertically down those corridors to create problems for Brighton's setup. Havertz's movement has been really good but he's got no one going the other way for him whatsoever either.
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Thing with MLS for Bruno is that it becomes dangerously hindsight based if/when Brighton choose to drop down a gear now and go backs to the wall instead. Their pressing out has been excellent but you don't tend to keep that up for more than 60, and esp not in this game state.
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These Brighton finishes ffs
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Such a joke, he just ran through like he wasn't there 😭
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How late he commits him with that sort of close control and barely breaking stride is insane
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