What's happening on the pitch is Richarlison isn't impacting games when he doesn't score. The numbers say that some but you can see it watching matches too I promise. He gives the ball away, his passing is poor and he makes bad decisions. But he's a natural scorer and it matters.
Thank you for this one picture with no context
Does it need one
He is a natural scorer and a direct runner, that unsettles defences. You can see that watching matches , I promise. All players make bad decisions from time to time and if you are always looking to make something happen , rather than taking the safe option then, obviously, some of your passing will go astray. Its easy to have good 'passing stats' if you are constantly passing backwards or sideways, a little more difficult if you are looking to go forward.
It doesn't show anything without context.
Yes. He's running on a counter by himself it would be different than if he got it wide and had plenty of support but they crowded everyone around him anyway for example.
Can’t agree mate, but will leave it there.
I'm not talking about his passing %. When I say passing stats I mean passes into the final third, passes into the box, passes that set up shots. He's not good for a winger in any of these areas.
The context of a still image is important was not a thing I expected to get disagreement on but as I like to say you find out something new every day
Sure do.
You just don't get it fo you? Watch him making runs off the ball into the area and watch the reaction of the central defenders. Question for you all the tap ins that DCL gets has it ever occurred to you that somebody should be marking him? That somebody is usually somebody who has allowed himself to be pulled out of position by Richarlison's run
I agree with that stuff. But that's not really the stuff I'm saying he's not good at. I'm concerned with all the stuff that isn't in the opposition box.
What, like bailing his defence out with his constant tracking back, that sort of stuff?
