A very good player and Mykolenko don’t go together decent run of form yes he’s scored but he’s done nothing tremendous long way to go until he’s a very good player.
Our best player according to Whoscored.
1v1 back to goal he defends fine, quick play where he needs to be more aware of his position and danger he struggles. He’s in decent for with plenty of room for improvement which is good but I hope no one starts getting carried away and putting £80m price tags on mykolenko. Another positive is he’s no longer scared of passing the half way line and today he managed to jump to head the ball, all progress which is all you can ask for.
Not saying he wasn’t good or hasn’t been good recently. Eze is class and was even at QPR a stand out player but the defending for it was poor but again find people making excuses for our players. Eg above it was Eze and 5 mins in don’t care if it’s messi and first 5 seconds it was poor. Also branthwaite first half saying can tell he’s got a knock no, he’s young and learning so he’s going to have games where he finds himself being caught out luckily he’s a top player and adapted second half and was better what’s the excuse for Onana today? Injured the tactics or he just didn’t turn up again?
I mean, Onana was also carrying a knock. He actually had the best passing accuracy in the game.
I take no notice of passing accuracy stats when the majority of the passes are short back and sideways passes just like possession means nothing Crystal Palace will tell you that.
Oh do shut up about Benitez for heavens sake, it's nauseating how much you drool after him.
Lots of stats are pointless such as possession. And the game may have passed him by etc. but I guess the point is, he wasn’t losing the ball and putting us on the back foot. He just wasn’t up to speed off the ball.
