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Player Valuation: £8m
Call me mental but I'd like to see how Ross would fair on the wing for a few games, for me he lacks in some areas as a central player:
Tackling/breaking up play = no, not enough positional anticipation, a lot of his (rare) attempts to challenge for the ball are on players who have already gone past him through the middle.
No. 10 = no, he gets tunnel vision for the goal in central advanced areas and is never looking to lay off or pass.
However:
Running with the ball = yes
Early delivery from wide = seen this a few times now
Delivery from advanced wide? = unknown, but our wing-backs over-lap and do this anyway.
While Gerard is injured I think Ross cutting in from right and Kev cutting in from left could cause some real problems and remove our irritating predictabilty.
Tackling/breaking up play = no, not enough positional anticipation, a lot of his (rare) attempts to challenge for the ball are on players who have already gone past him through the middle.
No. 10 = no, he gets tunnel vision for the goal in central advanced areas and is never looking to lay off or pass.
However:
Running with the ball = yes
Early delivery from wide = seen this a few times now
Delivery from advanced wide? = unknown, but our wing-backs over-lap and do this anyway.
While Gerard is injured I think Ross cutting in from right and Kev cutting in from left could cause some real problems and remove our irritating predictabilty.