Harry Winks - Leicester City
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Tottenhamboy85
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Harry Winks only passes sideways
allpaths
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but why ruin a good narrative
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Agreed. All of our midfielders would flourish with a solid, mobile ( doesn't even have to be amazing or world class) DM to help with the defensive screening of the back four.
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I wonder if Gedson can play that role, if not we have a lot of #8s.
I like Winks and he gets a lot of unwarranted shit. Yeah he aint perfect but he isnt terrible
Anyways I cant really understand the graph - fucking loads of dots and stuff
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Never got that narrarive, when you watch Winks if a forward option is available he nearly always passes forward, if not then he passes sideways or backwards.
My only issue with Winks is that his defensive positioning is sometimes a bit gun ho, but he is a number 8 not a DM.
A whole team of decent number 8’s but not a proper good DM to boot.
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Which is why we were trying to force the diamond but didnt have the DM as you say or the back 4 to pull it off. 433 could also work.
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I think someone shared an article about how the Argentinian version of the diamond midfield has a "regista"at the base - a player that keeps things ticking over - rather than a DM. Through that lens it made perfect sense to play Winks there, but the system as a whole clearly wasn't working.
yido_number1
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As long as you don't pair winks with sissoko he's a decent player. Sissoko spends 90% of the game at rb makes anyone with him look shit.
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Which isn't Sissokos fault, it's the RBs fault.
yido_number1
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You didn't see that today though. Sissoko gets sucked over worse than anyone else.
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I thought he was supposed to be the player to put his foot on the ball and keep possession for possesions sake. When he doesn't even do that he's completely useless. Forget all these stats of his "forward passes" he get the ball so deep, every pass by virtue is "forwards" but its rarely incisive, rarely starts attacks and he is horrible in defense. I truly see no reason to play him other than giving Ndombele or Lo Celso a breather.
yusrisafri
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A Matic or Carrick kind of player
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I semi agree. But at the expense of who? I'd much rather play Ndombele and/or Lo Celso ahead of him in that position.
Winks is tidy at times, tries hard and at best for us, will be a decent squad/bench player. Nothing more. He hasn't got enough about him to really claim a starting position in a team with our aspirations.
Much like Sissoko i'd be happy having him in the squad. When everyone is fit they shouldn't be starting.
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Ndombele is never fit so a good place to start.
